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President
Richard J. Gutierrez
GREEN PORT
Planting at
Masonville
Cove
M
ore than 450 fifth-graders and a
small group of high school students
enjoyed a hands-on science experi-
ence at the Masonville Cove Environmental
Education Center in May.
Living Classrooms staff work with the
students in Masonville-area schools on a
monthly basis throughout the school year.
These programs begin in the third grade
and are funded through the Maryland Port
Administration (MPA). The Masonville Cove
Environmental Festival serves as a culmina-
tion of the students’ environmental education
programs with Living Classrooms.
This year’s Festival was extra special
because the National Aquarium offered
support and conducted a massive wetland
planting with the fifth-grade students and
other volunteers.
Various environmental organizations were
also on hand to teach students about such
things as water quality buoys in the bay, how
to make bird feeders from recycled bottles
and gardening for nutrition. Students also had
a chance to see terrapins, blue crabs, horse-
shoe crabs, fish, a duck and an opossum.
High school students pitched in, too. As
part of the National Aquarium’s Wetland
Nursery Program, students at Benjamin
Franklin High School raised grasses
throughout the school year; students from
the school then helped plant them, along
with a group of students from the Maritime
Academy.
A total of 17,500 plants were planted on
the fringe wetland at the Masonville Cove
Dredged Materials Containment Facility.
Grants from the MPA and Constellation
Energy, along with donations from the
Maryland Environmental Service, made the
programs possible.
COURTESY OF MES (MD. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES)
