<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000099"><div><span data-mce-style="color: #663366;" color="#663366"><span style="font-size: xx-small;" data-mce-style="font-size: xx-small;" size="1"></span><span></span></span></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span name="x"></span><b>From: </b>"Nancy McHugh" <nmchugh@verizon.net><br><div><br></div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt" data-mce-style="color: #000; background-color: #fff; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;" class="yiv0221596088MsoNormal" data-mce-style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">Sandwich Conservation Trust Annual Meeting</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;" class="yiv0221596088MsoNormal" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yiv0221596088MsoNormal" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">This year's annual meeting will be held on Sunday, October 6th at 2 PM at the East Sandwich Grange Hall, 91 Old County Road. </span></div><div class="yiv0221596088MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> </span></div><div class="yiv0221596088MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">We are pleased to have as a speaker Tom Stone, recently retired from the Woods Hole Research Center. He is an environmental geologist who has specialized in using remote-sensing technology to map vegetation and to determine rates of land use change. Mr. Stone will speak to us on <b>Sandwich and Climate Change: Storms, Sea Level Rise, and Erosion</b>. This topic should be of particular interest to Cape Codders, given the dramatic erosion problems of 2012. </span></div><div class="yiv0221596088MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> </span></div><div class="yiv0221596088MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">He used satellite imagery and GIS data to determine the rates of deforestation in Siberia, Amazonia, Panama, and in the northeastern US. The results of this work assist in the determination of biotic contributions to the global climate change problem and provide information for land use planning.</span></div><div class="yiv0221596088MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"> </span></div><div class="yiv0221596088MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", "serif";" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif';">The program is open to the public for free, but the SCT will gratefully accept donations to help pay expenses. The annual meeting will begin at 2 PM, Mr. Stone at 2:30. We will be presenting our second annual "Volunteer of the Year" award. Last year's award went to Richard Connor of Gully Lane. Refreshments will be provided.</span></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>