Lighthouse Keepers’ Tales

Greg Guckenburg and Mary Hillery will present about their experiences serving as volunteer lighthouse keepers at the Bakers Island Lighthouse (off Salem, Massachusetts) in 2015. This program will take place…

Piping Plover Peeping!

The federally – threatened Atlantic coast piping plover nests and raises its young on Plum Island’s beaches from April through August. Join a refuge ranger for a chance to glimpse…

“Algonquians on the Parker River and Plum Island” by Mary Ellen Lepionka

Parker River NWR Headquarters/Visitor Center 6 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport, United States

FPRNWR Lepionka 16Aug2017  Native Americans depended on the resource-rich environment of the Parker River watershed and Plum Island around the time of European contact. Their livelihoods were organized seasonally, focusing on…

“New England Habitats” by Bill Gette

Parker River NWR Headquarters/Visitor Center 6 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport, United States

Bill Gette, former Director of Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center, has led natural history field trips for more than thirty years. Join us for his photographic tour through many…

Special Photography Program: Birds of the Florida Everglades

Parker River NWR Headquarters/Visitor Center 6 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport, United States

Massachusetts-based nature and wildlife photographer Peter Christoph will lead a program in which he will share photographs he has taken in one of America’s best known national parks. Learn about…

COASTALSWEEP 2017

Parker River NWR Lot#1

Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center and the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge announce that the COASTSWEEP 2017 cleanup for Plum Island, including the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge and…