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Mashpee Land Stewards Program: Department for more information on this important The Mashpee Land Stewardship Program volunteer program. continued to be active in 202. Assistant Conservation 2022 Nature Tour Guide: Agent Katelyn Cadoret continued to receive and respond to reports of various activities on our 2200 Renee Fudala is the Department's naturalist tour acres of conservation lands in Town. The Mashpee guide. Renee offers tours of various conservation Land Stewards Program volunteers provide an parcels in town year round. Her tours focus on native invaluable service of being a responsible presence Nora and fauna as well as natural history. Renee has on the land. If anyone is interested in becoming a been with the Conservation Dept for many years and volunteer land steward,please contact us or check out her tours are very entertaining,informative and popular. the Conservation page of the Mashpee Town website To see Renee's tour schedule, check the Conservation Dept page on the town's website. and look for the Land Stewards Program link to sign up online. The Conservation Commission wishes to thank Conservation Land Improvements: our support staff(Assistant Agent Katelyn Cadoret and Administrative Assistants Cynthia Bartos and Stacey Improvements continue to be made on Mashpee's Ducharme)for their continued hard work and dedication conservation lands with projects including trail to our department's mission and goals.We also would maintenance, kiosk repairs and native plantings to like to thank the many volunteers of AmeriCorps Cape enhance habitat features.Therestoration of chopchaque Cod for their hard work and dedication each year. cranberry bogs to wetlands and the restoration of the We thank the Natural Resources Department for their upper Quashnet River will provide new and enhanced assistance with permitting, enforcement and other habitat features projects as well as Building,Zoning, Board of Health Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge: and IT Departments for their continued support The Mashpee Conservation Department is a partner in the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge,which Respectfully submitted on behalf of the is made up of 5,871 acres of open space partnership Conservation Department Staff and lands,including lands owned by the Falmouth Rod and Conservation Commissioners, Gun Club,MA Division of Fish and Wildlife,Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, MA Paul Colombo, Chairman Department of Conservation and Recreation,Mashpee Alexandra no, Vice Chairman Wampanoag Tribe,the Friends Group of the Mashpee Brian Weedee rs,Secretary National Wildlife Refuge, and Town of Falmouth/ Charlie Dalton Conservation Commission. The partners continue Steven H.Cook to work together on various projects throughout the Marjorie ld ood refuge system.The refuge partners have also continued Erin Copeland to conduct prescribed burns in the South Mashpee Pine Chad Smith,Associate Barrens and Jehu Pond Conservation Areas to improve Sandi Godfrey,Associate habitat conditions for the New England Cottontail rabbit. Herring Count Program: Overthe last 11 years,we have organized the annual Herring Count Program for each of our three herring runs in town (Mashpee, Santuit and Quashnet Rivers). The program is supported through the Association to Preserve Cape Cod and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. The purpose of the count program is to assess the health and population of river herring. Counts are conducted at a designated spot at each run for 10 minutes at a time during the river herring migration season, which runs from April to June each year Please contact the Mashpee Conservation 112