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conceptual design created by the environmental which is made up of 5,871 acres of open space consulting firm Horsley Witten Group in 2021.We are partnership lands, including lands owned by the currently seeking to advance the project into the final Falmouth Rod and Gun Club,MA Division of Fish and design and permitting stage in 2022,with construction Wildlife, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research anticipated in 2023-2024. The Native Land Reserve, MA Department of Conservation and Conservancy holds the Conservation Restriction and Recreation, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, the Friends the Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trust produced Group of the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, and a Baseline Report for the parcel. Town of Falmouth/Conservation Commission. The partners continue to work together on various projects AmeriCorps Cape Cod: throughout the refuge system.The refuge partners have AmeriCorps Cape Cod provided much needed also continued to conduct prescribed burns in the South volunteer labor for the Conservation Department in Mashpee Pine Barrens and Jehu Pond Conservation 2021. Projects included removal of downed trees, Areas to improve habitat conditions for the New performing trail maintenance and installation of England Cottontail rabbit. We conducted an signage throughout many trail systems, including the educational talk about the Refuge with the Mashpee Mashpee River Woodlands,Besse Bog,Pickerel Cove, Senior Center in June of 2021. Santuit Pond Preserve and Childs River Conservation Areas. AmeriCorps also assisted with our Mashpee Herring Count Program: River herring run walk to ensure there is clear passage Over the last 11 years, we have organized the for the annual spring migration of river herring annual Herring Count Program for each of our three upstream.AmeriCorps Cape Cod continues to provide herring runs in town (Mashpee, Santuit and Quashnet invaluable assistance to the Mashpee Conservation Rivers). The program is supported through the Department. Association to Preserve Cape Cod and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. The Mashpee Land Stewards Program: purpose of the count program is to assess the health and The Mashpee Land Stewardship Program population of river herring. Counts are conducted at a continued to be active in 2021.Assistant Conservation designated spot at each run for 10 minutes at a time Agent Cadoret continues to receive and respond to during the river herring migration season, which runs reports of various activities on our 2200 acres of from April to June each year. In 2021, we limited the conservation lands in Town. The Land Stewards number of volunteers at each site due to constraints provide an invaluable service of being a responsible from COVID-19 social distancing protocols. Please presence on the land. If anyone is interested in contact the Mashpee Conservation Department for becoming a volunteer land steward, please contact us more information on this important volunteer program. or check out the Conservation page of the Mashpee Town website and look for the Land Stewards Program 2021 Nature Tour Guide: link to sign up online. Renee Fudala is the Department's naturalist tour guide. Renee offers tours of various conservation Conservation Land Improvements: parcels in town year round. Her tours focus on native We fixed the backing at the kiosk of the Mashpee flora and fauna as well as natural history. Renee has River Woodlands-Desrosiers parcel and added been with the Conservation Dept for many years and conservation land signage to the Chop Chaque Bog her tours are very entertaining,informative and popular. parcel. We continue to stock trail maps, doggy waste To see Renee's tour schedule, check the Conservation bags, and important signage in our kiosks, including Dept page on the town's website. hunting season information,rabies baiting information and precautionary measures for ticks,mosquitoes, and The Conservation Commission wishes to thank poison ivy. We continue to maintain our pollinator our support staff(Assistant Agent Katelyn Cadoret and garden sites in Town at Jehu Pond, Pickerel Cove, Administrative Assistants Cynthia Bartos and Stacey Community Gardens, and Santuit Pond Preserve. Ducharme) for their continued hard work and dedication to our department's mission and goals. We Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge: also would like to thank the many volunteers of The Mashpee Conservation Department is a AmeriCorps Cape Cod for their hard work and partner in the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, dedication each year. We thank the Natural Resources 101