supply, water quality, outdoor recreation, marine management, flooding and 

 erosion, and key facilities. 



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New England River Basins Commission. 1975. Report of the southeastern Mew 

 England study: a strategy for balanced development and protection of 

 water and related land resources in eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 

 Regional Report No. NERBC-40. 325 pp. 



This report covers a 4,400-square-mile area, including the coastline of 

 Massachusetts (Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, the Elizabeth Islands) and 

 Rhode Island (Narragansett Bay Islands and Block Island). 



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Sterling, D. 1967. The outer lands: a natural history guide to Cape Cod, 

 Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island. The Natural 

 History Press, Garden City, New York. 192 pp. 



This volume, which includes a subject index, is a natural history guide 

 to the area, and can also serve as an ecology and field reference, since 

 it includes a discussion of landscape, distinctive animal and plant life, 

 and geological formation. 



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 *University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences. 1974. Shallow 

 salt ponds. Pages 300-314 in_ H. T. Odum, B. J. Copeland, and E. A. 

 McMahan, eds. Coastal ecological systems of the United States. Vol. 2. 

 The Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C. 



Typical examples are ponds on Martha's Vineyard and on Nantucket in 

 back of Coatue Beach, all in Massachusetts. 



Tuckernuck Island 



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 ♦Andrews, J. C, and P. R. Mott. 1967. Gray seals at Nantucket, Massachusetts, 

 Journal of Mammalogy 48:657-658. 



This article reports on the occurrence of gray seals confirmed as late 

 as 1958, in the Nantucket, Massachusetts area, including Muskeget and 

 Tuckernuck islands. 



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 *Folger, E. V., and L. Griscom. 1948. Birds of Nantucket. Howard University 

 Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 156 pp. 



The area covered by this book includes Nantucket, the adjacent islands 

 of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, Coatue Beach and Great Point, and numerous 

 adjacent shoals extending 30 miles southeast of Nantucket. 



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