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 in the refuge visitor center auditorium. Sponsored by the Friends of Parker River NWR, Inc. & PRNWR.  NO preregistration for this program. 

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 this native species in its wild habitat and to hear the story of how biologists work to conserve the plover under the Endangered Species Act.…

Join Ghlee Woodworth, Stephanie Cobb, Ellie Bailey, and Kate Murray for a visual journey about Camp Sea Haven (founded in 1947 for children afflicted with polio); Grape Island (once a small community of fishermen, farmers, and clam diggers; and Stage Island (also known as the Ipswich Bluffs, whose inhabitants engaged in farming, salt works, fishing…

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 local plant and animal subsistence resources and economic activities for spring, summer, fall, and winter. The people--Abenaki-speaking Pawtucket-Pennacook with roots in New Hampshire--had a permanent…

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 New England habitats, including area salt marshes, boreal forests, a quaking bog, and an off-shore seabird nesting colony. See the plants and animals typical of…

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 his unique and successful approach to photographing birds in the wild and the stories behind his images. He’ll share “insider tips” and answer your questions.…

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 Sandy Point State Reservation, will be held on Saturday, September 23, from 9:00 am–5:00 pm. Participation in COASTSWEEP is free, for all ages, and will…