Letters from an American: Earth Day 2025
Read Heather Cox Richardson’s April 22, 2025 post about the beginnings of Earth Day in 1970 and its context today, including references to Rachel Carson’s efforts in the 1950’s and …
2024 Annual Meeting
If you missed our 2024 Annual Meeting on April 8th, 2025, we reviewed what was a very busy year in just over an hour! The sides summarizing our 2024 achievements …
Friends Of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge: Volunteers Make A Difference
Read the article in the Mashpee Enterprise on April 6th by AmeriCorps Cape Cod Member Kaycee Doherty about the how Board members were drawn to volunteer to the group and …
New Eco-Friendly Visitor Center Planned For Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge
Read the article in the Mashpee Enterprise on March 28th by AmeriCorps Cape Cod Member Kaycee Doherty. The Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge is eager to get started on construction of …
WBUR 90.9 FM Here & Now: Fish & Wildlife Service Faces Cuts
Writer and photographer Mark Seth Lender joins Here & Now’s Robin Young to explain the concern wildlife enthusiasts are feeling in this segment. Listen now. This segment aired on March …
Your Voice Matters! Help Protect Our National Wildlife Refuges
WASHINGTON, DC – February 14th, 2025 – The National Wildlife Refuge Association is deeply alarmed by today’s Department of the Interior (DOI)-wide termination of approximately 420 U.S. Fish and Wildlife …
Kinglets: Crowns of a Different Kind
On my first day serving with Friends of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, as we were gathering signs from our recent “Walk for the Wild” event along Great Hay Road in …
AmeriCorps Member Kaycee Doherty
My name is Kaycee Doherty, and I am a recent graduate of Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina and a current member of AmeriCorps Cape Cod here in Barnstable County. …
Eagle Scout “Rabbitat” Project Completed
During the past month, volunteer Boy Scouts from Troop 42, under the leadership of Eagle Scout candidate, Griffin Jones, installed an interpretive panel along the trail leading from Red Brook …
Eagle Scout Project Rabbitat Construction
Habitat destruction and competition from other species have significantly reduced the population of the native New England Cottontail rabbit with small populations now found only in selected areas of New …