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Minutes of the ESA Governing Board May 7-8, 2015 Washington, DC Members Present David Inouye              President Monica Turner President-Elect Jill Baron                     Past-President Evan DeLucia                         VP for Finance Scott Collins               VP for Public Affairs Valerie Eviner             VP for Science Julie Reynolds             VP for Education and Human Resources (via phone) Charles Canham          Secretary Carmen Cid                 Member at Large Ana-Elisa…

Minutes of the ESA Governing Board, August 9-10, 2014 Sacramento, CA  Members Present Jill Baron                     President Scott Collins               Past-President David Inouye              President-Elect Leslie Real                  VP for Finance Sharon Collinge          VP for Public Affairs Valerie Eviner             VP for Science Julie Reynolds            VP for Education and Human Resources Charles Canham         Secretary…

Minutes of the ESA Governing Board,November 18-19, 2014Linthicum Heights, MDMembers Present David Inouye              PresidentMonica Turner            President-ElectEvan DeLucia             VP for FinanceScott Collins               VP for Public AffairsValerie Eviner             VP for ScienceJulie Reynolds            VP for Education and Human ResourcesCharles Canham         SecretaryCarmen Cid…

Minutes of the ESA Governing Board, November 7-8, 2013 Washington, DC Members Present Jill Baron                     President Scott Collins               Past-President David Inouye              President-Elect Leslie Real                  VP for Finance Sharon Collinge          VP for Public Affairs Valerie Eviner             VP for Science Charles Canham          Secretary Michelle Mack            Member at Large Staff Present Katherine McCarter    Executive Director Elizabeth Biggs           Chief Financial…

Minutes of the ESA Governing Board, May 5-6, 2014 Washington, DC Members Present Jill Baron                     President Scott Collins               Past-President David Inouye              President-Elect Leslie Real                  VP for Finance Sharon Collinge          VP for Public Affairs Valerie Eviner             VP for Science Julie Reynolds             VP for Education and Human Resources Charles Canham          Secretary Carmen Cid                 Member at Large Stephen Jackson          Member…

Minutes of the ESA Governing Board,August 3-4, 2013Minneapolis, MN Members PresentScott Collins               PresidentSteward Pickett          Past-PresidentJill Baron                    President-ElectLeslie Real                 VP for FinanceSharon Collinge         VP for Public AffairsDeborah Goldberg     VP for ScienceJulie Reynolds            VP…

Minutes of the ESA Governing Board,May 20-21, 2013Washington, DC Members Present:Scott Collins               PresidentSteward Pickett          Past-PresidentJill Baron                     President-ElectSharon Collinge          VP for Public AffairsDeborah Goldberg      VP for ScienceJulie Reynolds             VP for Education and Human ResourcesCharles Canham          SecretaryMichelle Mack            Member at LargeMimi Lam                   Member-at-LargeStephen Jackson          Member-at-Large Staff Present:Katherine McCarter    Executive DirectorElizabeth Biggs           Chief Financial OfficerNadine Lymn              Director, Public AffairsCliff…

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Cape Cod, Massachusetts has a problem. The iconic salt marshes of the famous summer retreat are melting away at the edges, dying back from the most popular recreational areas. The erosion is a consequence of an unexpected synergy between recreational over-fishing and Great Depression-era ditches constructed by Works Progress Administration (WPA) in an effort to control mosquitoes. The cascade of ecological cause and effect is described by Tyler Coverdale and colleagues at Brown University in a paper published online this month in ESA’s journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

“People who live near the marshes complain about the die-off because it’s not nice to look at,” said Coverdale. “Without cordgrass protection you also get really significant erosion, retreating at sometimes over a meter a year.” The die-back is ugly, but it is also a substantial loss of a valuable ecological resource.