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Our
mission is to conserve, protect and enhance the biological
diversity, ecological integrity and cultural legacy of the
sanctuary while facilitating compatible use.
Photo:
A cunner hides among the marine invertebrates covering the
remains of a shipwreck in the sanctuary. |
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Draft Management Plan Released and Public Comment Period closed on October 3, 2008. Thank you for your comments.
Click
here to view the plan and learn how to get involved.
Click here for a short guide to the plan. |
STELLWAGEN
ALIVE is a nonprofit public benefit corporation whose goals are to increase awareness of SBNMS.
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Sanctuary
Advisory Council Meeting
The Sanctuary Advisory Counciil Meeting will be in The Hull Room, Charlestown Naval Yard, Boston, MA on October 22, 2008. Click here for agenda. |
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10 Things You Can Do to Help Protect the Sanctuary - Click here for a list of things you can do Help Proect the Sanctuary.
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Marine Art Contest Winners
Click here to see winners and honorable mentions from this years contest. |
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Condition Report - A Condition
Report that rates the status of Stellwagen
Bank National Marine Sanctuary resources
has been released by the National Marine
Sanctuary Program. Click
here for press release.
Click
here for the full text of the Condition
Report.
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David
Wiley received the 2007 Human Hero
Award from the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(MSPCA). The award was presented on 11 October
at a ceremony at the Kennedy Library, Boston
MA. Approximately 500 people were in attendance.
The award was for his efforts to reduce
the serious injury or mortality to endangered
whales through movement
of the Boston shipping lanes that pass
through the sanctuary. |
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Dominican Republic Sister Sanctuary - The
Stellwagen Bank and Marine Mammal Sanctuary
of the Dominican Republic sign sister sanctuary
agreement. Click here for press release |
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News
Updated
October 14, 2008
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Special
Reports
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 Stellwagen
Bank, the birthplace of whale watching on the
east coast attracts a variety of marine mammals
and thousands of human visitors. Find out more
about watching whales in the sanctuary. Stellwagen
Bank was named one of the world's Top 10 Whale
Watching Sites according to USA Today (May 24,
2007). The photo accompanying the article was
of a breaching humpback whale in the Stellwagen
Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Visit our Whale
Watching section to find out more about whale
watching in the sanctuary and to view a list of
whale watching companies that offer trips into
the sanctuary.
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Sanctuary Poster
The sanctuary announces the availability of its newest poster -- a 24" x 36" map of the sanctuary and adjacent coastal zone. Individual copies of the poster can be picked up from sanctuary headquarters in Scituate, Mass. or at one of our education partners. There is no charge for the poster.
Click here for a list of locations.
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