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Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
This summer's Wild, Wild Auction was a wild, wild success! For the second year, this online event raised critical funds for Mass Audubon's work on Cape Cod. The bidding was strong and participation was wide-ranging.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Lillie Peterson-Wirtanen has joined Mass Audubon Cape Cod’s development team, succeeding Sheila Hoogeboom, who retired this month. Lillie will work closely with the region's Leadership Friends and grants programs.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
As the new academic year approaches, Mass Audubon Cape Cod educators are hoping for more sanctuary-based school programs. But they're also ready to take lessons online and into schoolyards.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
After many meaningful years, Wellfleet Bay Development Manager Sheila Hoogeboom is retiring in September. But she's planning to keep both the sanctuary and the Outer Cape in her life.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
A Cape Cod Field School terrapin program was the initial spark that led Wellfleet Bay volunteer Barbara Brennessel to write her popular 2006 book, Diamonds in the Marsh. Now it's being re-released this fall.
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After ten long years of dedicated conservation effort by Mass Audubon staff, volunteers, and citizen scientists, the population of eastern spadefoot toads (Scaphiopus holbrookii) translocated to Ashumet Holly Wildlife Sanctuary has finally reproduced! A pilot project started by Long Pasture Sanctuary director Ian Ives and Bryan Windmiller of Zoo New England was initiated in 2011 […]
As the 2021 season winds down, it appears Wellfleet Bay’s diamondback terrapin nest protection and monitoring program has logged another productive summer—a very hot, humid, and mosquito-ridden summer! A big shout-out to our resilient terrapin teams who monitor sites throughout Wellfleet, Eastham, and Orleans. We won’t know the total number of healthy hatchlings for another […]