The Town of Falmouth recently completed prescribed burns at the Coonamessett fields within the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge in Falmouth. Thanks to USFWS funding support, they were able to complete the burn, and we are pleased to help them get…
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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 1960’s to ban the use of DDT and other pesticides…
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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 and plans for this year are available in the full…
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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 how their backgrounds led them all to the same place.…
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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 its new visitor center. Years in the making, the center…
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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 19, 2025.
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 Service (USFWS) employees, many of whom are critical to the…
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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 the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, the sound of birdsong caught…
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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. I’m serving here at Friends of Mashpee Wildlife Refuge through…
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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 Road and repainted the gates on either side of the…
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