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FEATURE EELGRASS RESTORATION

PLANTING

THE

SEEDS OF

INSPIRATION:

EELGRASS

RESTORATION

By JoAnne Castagna Ed.D.

Credit: Robert Vasiluth hen Robert Vasiluth was a child, his Uncle Gill In the past century, these waters have lost nearly 90 percent would always encourage him to make a differ- of its eelgrass beds due to wasting disease, a marine illness, ence in the world while they played checkers, as well as pollution, dredging, and warming waters. This isn’t

Wswam, or hiked. just a local problem. It’s estimated that the world has lost ap- “He was always interested in the stuff I was building in