Press Room

The facial expression on a river otter at a west-of-Boston pond was enough to earn the image top honors in Mass Audubon’s annual statewide photography contest, Picture This: Your Great Outdoors.

Mass Audubon has named Jennifer Madson its new Central Regional Director, whose role includes oversight of more than a dozen wildlife sanctuaries in central Massachusetts, in communities extending from the Route 2 corridor south to the Connecticut border and west to the Quabbin Reservoir watershed. 

Mass Audubon has named Scott McCue as its new Metro West Regional Director, including oversight of the wildlife sanctuaries Broadmoor in Natick, Drumlin
Farm in Lincoln, Habitat Education Center in Belmont, and Waseeka in Hopkinton.

Mass Audubon has been named one of 10 organizations from throughout the country to be accepted by the Lawrence Hall of Science and Justice Outside to participate in the Working Toward Racial Equity (WTRE) Workshop Series.

WTRE, based at the University of California, Berkeley, supports environmental and outdoor science organizations to foster equitable, inclusive, and culturally relevant work environments and organizations.

As the major $4 billion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) spending bill moves toward final passage and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk for approval, Mass Audubon leaders, who have been lobbying vigorously for investments in climate change mitigation and nature, praised the legislative conference committee for coming to an agreement this week.