Help Needed for Friends of Herring River Booth
at Oyster Fest
Oyster Fest is our opportunity to share with the community the activities of Friends of Herring River. This year we will have a flyer that describes the very detailed process of preparing for the Environmental Impact Study that has been the work of the Herring River Restoration Committee for the last year. We will have a space to the left of the Wellfleet Preservation Hall (the former Our Lady of Lourdes church). Look for us at the foot of the driveway on the left. We will have membership information and many explanatory maps and photos. If you can help, please e-mail me or call me at 508-349-2567. Thanks. Lisbeth Wiley Chapman, editor beth@friendsofherringriver.orgP.S. Be sure to stop by and see our new maps and photos. |
Wellfleet Harbor Conference
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Please put the Wellfleet Harbor Conference in your calendars.
It will be held November 14, at the Wellfleet Elementary School. We can promise that this conference always delivers important information about the Harbor and its issues. Tim Smith, National Park Service, will speak about the Herring River Restoration progress.
The Friends of Herring River is leading a tour on Sunday, November 15 beginning at the Seashore's Great Island parking lot (on Griffin Island) at 9:00 a.m. The tour will highlight the estuary's past and future importance to the Town of Wellfleet and take participants to several historical sites within the marshlands above the Herring River Dike. The group will discuss pre-1909 natural resource use (before the river was diked), how diking and drainage have radically altered the ecosystem and reduced its value to people, and how planned tidal restoration can recover much of what has been lost. |
