The David Ross Palmer Environmental Hero Award
The David Ross Palmer Environmental Hero Award. This award is named for the late David Ross Palmer, founder and first president of the Friends (1995-2000), who was a champion of …
Friends of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge – News
MNWR Partner, Orenda, Announces New Executive Director
MNWR Partner, Orenda, Announces New Executive Director. In their Spring 2020 newsletter, Orenda Wildlife Land Trust, a partner of the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR), announced Jeff Thibodeau as its …
New Pollinator Boxes!
New Pollinator Boxes! Senior Environment Corps (SEC) recently constructed new nest boxes for our pollinator gardens using COVID-19 CDC social distancing guidelines. These boxes mimic the typical nesting habitat for …
Mashpee Friends Featured in Refuge Highlights
Mashpee Friends Featured in Refuge Highlights. The Friends of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge was pleased to be featured in the March-April 2020 edition of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service …
It’s pollinator week!
It’s pollinator week! Please consider planting native plants that produce nectar and pollen as food sources for the wide range of native pollinators we have in Mashpee! Most people think …
Friends Respond to COVID-19
Friends Respond to COVID-19. The Friends of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge was pleased to be included in the Summer 2020 edition of The Link, a quarterly newsletter produced in coordination …
Eagle Project: Jehu Pond Pollinator Garden
Eagle Project: Jehu Pond Pollinator Garden. This picture post is located at the Jehu Pond Conservation Area Pollinator Garden. The purpose of picture posts are to document changes in the …
Pollinator Field Planting at Falmouth Rod & Gun Club Fields
Continuing the work at the FR&GC Pollinator Fields under the most trying of moments in our lives! This picture IS worth at least a thousand words and certainly demonstrates the …
Mary M. Scanlan
Mary M. Scanlan, human services advocate, consummate volunteer, environmentalist and champion of wildlife conservation on the Upper Cape, has died at the age of 96. Ms. Scanlan, who moved from …
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
Adding New plants and seeds to the Pollinator gardens at Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge Three Friends board members, Katelyn Cadoret, Glenn Davis, and MaryKay Fox, worked together following CDC’s social …