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 agricultural village…

The refuge’s fourth annual Conservation Film Festival is primed and ready to go for the first weekend in March. And it’s all FREE! Films that will be screened during the festival focus on a broad range of local, national and international conservation topics. All film screenings are FREE and will take place in the refuge…

Bill Gette, former Director of Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center, has led natural history field trips for more than thirty years. Some of the most sought-after birds in New England are the many species of winter raptors. Some of these amazing birds are permanent residents in our area. Others move south out of their…