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Wasque
Wasque ("way-squee"〔(Trustees of Reservations: Wasque )〕) or Wasque Beach〔(WHDH-TV Great Escape: Wasque Beach ) (Air date: Thursday, July 21, 2005)〕 is a nature reserve on Chappaquiddick Island, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The site was established as a reservation for the public in 1967 and is one of five conservation areas on "the Vineyard"〔(''Boston Globe'' "If you go: Martha's Vineyard" ), October 17, 2004〕 managed by the Trustees of Reservations.〔〔〔(TravelMuse: Chappaquiddick Island )〕〔("Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge and Wasque Reservation (East Shore)" ) on Home & Abroad 2008〕 Wasque contains a sandy strand the ''Boston Globe'' calls "a magnificent beach."〔 ''Travel + Leisure'' named Wasque Beach the number one beach in New England and WHDH-TV reports "It's pristine, serene, and rain or shine, it's a beach-goers' delight."〔 Off the shore of Wasque Beach is Katama Bay, "a vast and pristine salt water bay that includes many acres of productive shellfish beds."〔(Edgartown Officials Stand Firm on Katama Bay Anchorage Ban ), by Mark Alan Lovewell, ''Vineyard Gazette Online'', February 25, 2005〕
==Ecology==
Wasque has a sand barrens ecosystem. One of a number of such habitats in isolated locations from Maine to New Jersey, the reservation's landscape and geography were formed by ancient outwash deposits from glacial till. The free-draining, acidic, dry, and sandy soil sustains coastal heathlands, oak and pitch pine woodlands, and sandplain grasslands.〔〔 Wasque is home to such species as beach plum, bearberry, blackberry, black huckleberry, blue toadflax, bluets, chokeberry, dwarf cinquefoil, golden heather, late lowbush blueberry, Nantucket shadbush, rockrose, and yellow stargrass.〔("A Picture Guide to Interesting Flowering Plants" ) by Lloyd Raleigh, May 25, 1999〕 These areas are "globally rare communities"〔 and only maintained through relatively intensive land management that includes domesticated animals grazing the grass, mechanical mowing and clearing of vegetation, and even controlled burning.〔
The reservation has a number of rare animal species that depend on the conditions of these habitats;〔 in 2004 ''The Boston Globe'' said that the Wasque Reservation is "a great place for fishing and birdwatching".〔 Observers can spot blue herons, egrets, ducks, and migrating shorebirds that can be found in the marshes. Ospreys can be seen swooping down to pluck fish from the Atlantic Ocean. Butterfly watchers can see monarchs, sulphur butterflies, and red admirals that stop here to drink nectar from wildflowers before continuing their southward migration.〔
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