Rowley: Bill Gette of the Mass. Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center looks over the colorful leaves of a sassafras tree on new land the society has acquired as a sanctuary. The land, off Route 1A in Rowley near Stackhouse Road, is 200 acres of upland, as pictured, and marshland. Bryan Eaton/Staff Photo

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