Attend Tuesday, August 12ths Conservation Commission meeting, 7:30pm!
If you can't, watch it on Duxbury's Cable Access channel live and again Wednesday the 13th and Friday the 15th at 12:30pm and 7:30pm
Read the Patriot Ledger, August 12, 2003.
Mass Audubon commends Duxbury Beach Reservation for highest Piping Plover Fledge rate in the state!
The following is an Email from David Clapp of Mass Audubon to Jake Emerson, ESA Officer for Duxbury Beach:
Jake, as I look over the numbers for Piping Plover nesting success for the 2003 nesting season on the South Shore and elsewhere, it looks like you win the prize! I have been told that the fledgling-per-nest numbers for the Islands and for Cape Cod are below 1.0. The numbers for Plymouth, Rexhame, and Scituate are pretty good overall, but not as good as Duxbury's. You had 13 nests and it looks like you will fledge 36 birds - that is 2.77 fledglings per nest. About three times the Cape and Islands average. Good job with the fencing, the exclosures, the monitors, your professional staff, and dealing with the public. It isn't easy but you did a great job. I hope that Julia Aukland was helpful to your cause. She seems to have been efficient and dedicated. At some point in the near future we should talk about the role Mass Audubon should play next year. The institutionalization of the process by the Town of Duxbury seems to be working very well. Again, congratulations. David Clapp
David E. Clapp is the Director of the Massachusetts Audubon South Shore Sanctuaries and has been with the Society for over 30 years. David is an ornithologist and general naturalist with training in biology and science education. He has a strong interest in habitat conservation as well as land preservation and management. David enjoys sharing his awe and understanding of the natural world and has led trips throughout North America, the tropics of Central and South America, East and Southern Africa, and the Indian subcontinent.