1/12/1995 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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MASHPEE CONSERVATIONO ISSIO Green Tourism -- slide Presentation 12 January 1995 On Thursday evening, January 12, at 7;30 p.m. , Mario Liregorio gave a presentation with slides o many of the Conservation areas. This was open to the public and was very well received. Mr, DiGregoria congratulated Mashpss on the foresight to be involved in the Green Tourism Program. He stated strip malls and parking lots may come and coo* the town is to be congratulated on taking this first important step towards building a truly lona-tern economic foundation* There are four areas he has visited. 1n the north section there is' valuable native hardwood. The Mashpee River resembles an interior riparian system. Mashy ee is the most diverse of the fifteen towns on the Cape, slide was shown of the Childs River which has two foot in diameter White Pines. The river flows through a bock and is not clean clown stream due to fertilizers, Noisy Mole Conservation Parcels: There is a leatherleaf bog community. South of route 28 the stream becomes Quaker Run. All of the areas inventoried did have a dumping problem. Iahee River: A great tidal river, A slide was shown overlooking the river from the north parking lot. There is over 500 acres of watershed protected. species of true Forget-Me-dot were found; they are not native, it is an introduction from Europe, It is most unusual and common to the White Mountains; they thrive only in clear, well- oxygenated water. Large bur-marigold grows by the thousands in the river in late summer, early fall . This is the first recording of this species in Barnstable county. There are spotted turtles in the ricer but he did not see any River otters during his inventory. It is a two mile canoe trip from Farley's Cama to Punkhorn Point. uashnet Diver: A hand rade fish ladder, made in the 1850's to create a herring run, at Johns Pond Park, is where the headwaters of the river begins its long journey east and then south where it eventually empties into Waquoit Bay. Mr, Sherman advised the Division of Marine Fisheries would prefer to see only one herring run, which is not possible. Vandalism was evident at Mashpee River~ and Johns Pond Park.