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Mairenee planting
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Seven-year-old Mairenee holds a shovel in one hand and plant in the other.
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Seven-year-old Mairenee gently smooths the sand around her coastal dune plant.
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Second graders from Santa Rita Elementary School follow in the footsteps of Return of the Native program coordinator Marina Maze as she leads them to the planting site at Monterey State Beach.
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Students and teachers from Santa Rita Elementary School join Return of the Native staff at Monterey State Beach to plant native coastal dune plants and learn about the western snowy plover.
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Shawn Milar is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the lead federal agency for the protection of threatened and endangered fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats.
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Marina Maze is the program coordinator for Return of the Natives at California State University, Monterey Bay.
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Fish and wildlife biologist Shawn Milar lends a helping hand to a second grader from Santa Rita Elementary School.
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Second graders place their plants a few feet apart.
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A child's hands smooth the sand around a newly planted coastal dune plant.
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Fish and wildlife biologist Shawn Milar lends a helping hand to two second grade students from Santa Rita Elementary School.
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MONTEREY, Calif. (April 1, 2014) Second graders from Santa Rita Elementary School in Salinas use binoculars for the first time to watch birds at Monterey State Beach.
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A second grader from Santa Rita Elementary School peers through binoculars to spot the western snowy plovers scurrying along the shoreline at Monterey State Beach.
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A young girl attentively admires her recently dug hole where she will place a coastal dune plant.
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A young girl uses binoculars for the first time to watch the seagulls at Monterey State Beach.
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Christina McKnew, Return of the Natives Greenhouse Manager.
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Christina McKnew manages the Return of the Natives greenhouse on the California State University, Monterey Bay campus.
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The Return of the Natives Greenhouse propagates up to 30,000 plants per year, including a variety of coastal dune species.
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These tiny coastal dunes plants were grown at the Return of the Natives Greenhouse before being transported to Monterey State Beach for planting by the Santa Rita Elementary School students.
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A banded western snowy plover at Monterey State Beach.
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A banded western snowy plover at Monterey State Beach.
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Greenhouse Plants
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Mairenee Planting