Comings and Goings Monarch, Migrations, at the Trust and Milkweed page 3 page 7

Terrapin Gardens The Hopkins Family page 6 on Reuben’s Pond Orleans page 10 Conservation

FALL/WINTER 2015-2016 FALL/WINTER Trust ON THE COVER: Fall Fundraising Report page 4 The Wisdom of Giving Page 4

Join us to walk the ponds and count ducks in East Orleans! Talks & Walks, pages 8-9 Fall/Winter 2015-2016 1 from the president

Board of Trustees Dear OCT members and supporters, above and beyond financially to help Bob Prescott, President It’s hard to believe a whole year has gone by us carry out our Meff Runyon, Vice-President Steve Koehler, Treasurer since I wrote my first message. It has been mission. Our newly Judy Scanlon, Clerk my pleasure to work with a strong, dynamic, launched People to Charles Carlson creative, and engaged board and staff. We People Campaign Mon Cochran accomplished a great deal but there is always will help us achieve Sharon Davis more to be done. Exciting new opportunities our fundraising Kevin Galligan await us. goals and form a solid base of support for Stephanie Gaskill Karl Goldkamp Transitions are always a challenging the Trust to do its work. You’ll read more Diana Landau time, but our new director, Liz Migliore, about fundraising activities in this issue. Sue Meisinger jumped right in, successfully took the helm, Early in October, the board met for an Patty Platten and kept OCT on a steady course. If you all-day workshop led by Mark Robinson of visit any of the Trust’s properties, you’ll see the Compact for Cape Cod Land Trusts. Us- Staff some of the work that kept Liz and Stephen ing the Land Trust Alliance Handbook, we O’Grady, our Dorothy O. Boyle intern, busy looked deeply and critically at our operation. Elizabeth Migliore, Director Leah Mould, AmeriCorps Cape all summer—trail maintenance, installing This self-examination gave us a good under- Cod Individual Placement trail markers and OCT property signs, a new standing of what we’re doing well and where split-rail fence at Mill Pond Valley Conser- we need to improve. It was the first step in vation Area, and a wood duck nesting box formulating a strategic plan to guide OCT OCT is a recognized 501(c)(3) at Ice House Pond (join me for a walk there for the next five years. You’ll be hearing nonprofit organization. All in early December!). We had to bid Steve more about this effort, and we need you to contributions are tax deductible farewell when he returned to school but look play a key role in it. Input from an engaged to the full extent of the law. forward to having more interns on board, membership is vital as we develop this plan. with the energy they bring. Liz also was suc- Each year in this issue we recognize all Orleans Conservation Trust cessful in her application for another Ameri- our supporters by name. You make all that P.O. Box 1078 Corps Cape Cod placement: Leah Mould, we do possible, and on behalf of the entire East Orleans, MA 02643 a recent graduate from the University of board I thank you for your support and Phone: 508-255-0183 Rochester in Environmental Science, started participation. in October and will be with us through July E-mail 2016. [email protected] Fundraising is always one of the board’s most important responsibilities, if not the Website most important. In the coming years it’s orleansconservationtrust.org going to be more critical than ever to iden- Bob Prescott tify a core group of supporters who can go President

HELP US MEET THE CHALLENGE! On the cover: A great horned owl amid We’re delighted to announce that a generous donor has made a challenge fall foliage, just off the main trail at OCT’s Twinings Pond Conservation Area. grant to bolster our year-end fundraising: all gifts up to $25,000 will be

Photo by Elizabeth Migliore matched dollar for dollar. Please keep this in mind when you receive OCT’s year-end mailing — help us meet the challenge and more! + 2 Fall/Winter 2015-2016 landmarks

Outgoing trustee Beth Minear, who retired this summer after 15 years of service on the board.

professional background in environmental science with the broader work of a land Susan Meisinger, and Judith Scanlon. Their trust: fundraising, land acquisition and man- Comings biographies, and a full agenda of the meet- agement, and education. She notes that “land ing, can be found on the OCT website at trusts generally are in transition: moving http://orleansconservationtrust.org/annual- away from a primary focus on land acquisi- and Goings meeting/. tion, as properties become scarcer and more Outgoing trustee Beth Minear, who expensive, toward applying best practices in at the Trust retired this summer after 15 years of service managing their properties, and expanding on the board, was presented with a framed outreach and education programs.” OCT in OCT’s Annual Meeting was held on August photograph of a baby turtle, one of her con- particular, she believes, has great strength in 27, 2015, at the Orleans Club. The 56 servation passions. its longevity and close community ties, “but members in attendance ratified the election we still have a lot of potential for growth, in of new trustees and nominating committee Introducing Our New directions that our new strategic planning members, after 340 members cast affirmative Director efforts will help identify.” An avid traveler, votes by mailed ballot, online, or in person. This annual meeting Liz is enjoying exploring the Northeast, Following the business agenda, attendees marked the first time and after a lot of moves during her training, heard a fascinating talk by Dr. Jeremy Owens many members had the looks forward to settling in on the Cape. Elizabeth Migliore of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, chance to meet OCT Di- who studies the interactions rector Elizabeth Migliore, who spoke briefly. New AmeriCorps Staff on Board between ocean chemistry, Liz came to us from the Wildlands Trust in One of Liz’s first achievements as director biology, and climate distur- Plymouth, where she was MassLIFT Ameri- was securing the services of another Indi- bance; he explained how the Corps Regional Conservation Coordinator; vidual Placement from AmeriCorps Cape presence of certain carbon her background also includes stints at Cape Cod. Leah Mould recently graduated from isotopes at different points Cod National Seashore, the U.S. Fish and Jeremy Owens the University of Rochester with a degree in the earth’s evolution Wildlife Service, and the New York De- in Environmental Science. She loves being offers clues to a changing climate. And after partment of Environmental Conservation, outdoors: birding, gardening, hiking, or that, we enjoyed delicious hors d’oeuvres studying the fragile dune habitat of Lake helping with land management work. Leah prepared by Mac’s Seafood. Ontario as an intern. While earning her MS will serve with OCT two days a week from The slate of trustees elected or reelected in environmental studies at Ohio University, October 2015 through July 2016. Members consists of J. Charles Carlson, Mon Cochran, she gained on-the-ground experience in are invited to stop by the office to meet Liz Sharon Davis, Kevin Galligan, Stephanie water quality, wetlands, and fish studies. and Leah. More about both can be found at Gaskill, Karl Goldkamp, Steven Koehler, Liz looks forward to building on this http://orleansconservationtrust.org/staff-bios/.

Fall/Winter 2015-2016 3 supporting the trust

Celebrating Generosity Through the Seasons Fall Fundraising Report n this season of thanksgiv- ing, we express our gratitude to the many donors and Isupporters who are the lifeblood of the Orleans Conservation Trust. The last few pages of this issue are devoted to acknowl- edging each and every one. As our year-end fundraising appeal draws near, it also seems like a good time to share with mem- bers some of the current direc- tions of our fundraising activity. We know that people like to give in different ways. For and all the myriad needs of a can help provide financial some, a gift of land or of a conservation nonprofit. security for their family, along conservation restriction on land with tremendous benefits to they own—sometimes in the PEOPLE TO PEOPLE the Trust’s land-saving mission. form of a bequest—is the most Our year-end appeal is the Gifts included in wills and living meaningful and mutually benefi- tried-and-true fundraising trusts are popular because they cial way to support the Trust, channel, and OCT members are flexible, easy to arrange, and especially given the generous always respond in force. This landowners know, in recent can be changed throughout the state tax credit. Others choose year one very generous donor years it’s taken more and more giver’s lifetime. (See the sidebar.) to dedicate a gift of money to has provided a challenge grant resources to battle the invasive This summer, Orleans Con- build our endowment, maintain of up to $25,000 to match any species that threaten the health servation Trust learned that OCT lands, or support staffing gifts (especially new gifts and and best use of our lands. Doing longtime benefactor Elizabeth (like the Dorothy Rowe Boyle increased levels of giving) made this successfully requires that Cullen made such a bequest: a Memorial Internship) or special by the end of 2015. we add part-time staff in the parcel of land just under one programs. Now and then we We’re also pursuing a summer and maintain equip- acre at 16 Oliver’s Way in East conduct targeted fundraising new avenue. To better inform ment that’s up to the task. While Orleans. The property, near campaigns for a land purchase ourselves about our donors’ specific needs evolve, the basic existing OCT land donated by or other major effort. Of course, priorities—and inform sup- need for committed donors is a the Cullen family, includes rare the most versatile and useful do- porters about OCT’s needs— constant. waterfront on Mill Pond. We nations are “unrestricted”: funds we’ve begun to reach out on an expect title to be transferred to the organization can use for the individual, “person to person” A VERY SPECIAL BEQUEST the Trust by year’s end. ever-growing expense of man- level to donors with the means More and more donors recog- When Betty and Jack aging our lands, for our popular and inclination to help meet our nize that making a charitable gift Cullen decided to retire to the educational programs and walks, most pressing needs. As Orleans as part of their estate planning Cape, says their daughter Patty 4 Fall/Winter 2015-2016 Cullen, they scoured the Lower Cape for a special home. “Betty always said that she fell in love with the house on Oliver’s Way when they first drove down the dirt driveway,” Patty remembers. During their years on Nauset Heights, they loved sharing the land with wildlife: Jack was always excited when the buffle- heads returned to Mill Pond, and Betty loved the swans. Both watched for the fox, coyotes, and deer that cut across the front lawn, and enjoyed the birds our work of preserving and River, where Bob described on- Opposite: Guests gather for a from their screened porch. picnic lunch at Eelman’s Point on thoughtfully managing beautiful going efforts to protect nesting Pleasant Bay during the thank-you A vernal pool, bayberry and and important open space in areas for the diamond-back ter- tour. Above: The Blue Claw poison ivy bushes, sea lavender Orleans—not for any reward. rapin in collaboration with Mass at anchor off Eelman’s Point. growing along the Mill Pond Still, we’ve been on the look- Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife shoreline, and old stone walls out for creative and enjoyable Sanctuary. Then we steamed disembarked on the beach at from Oliver Doane’s farm are ways to say thanks. Early this through Little Pleasant Bay and Eelman’s Point for a picnic lunch all part of the land’s history. The September, on a warm Indian the Narrows into “Big Bay,” ad- served by other board members Cullens had previously donated summer day, we hosted a dozen miring Little Sipson’s Island and and Director Liz Migliore. At three parcels to the Trust and or so donors for a boat trip and its great marsh. Looking north, tables set with fresh flowers we always hoped that the all of their picnic on Pleasant Bay, with we had a fine view of the 58 munched sandwiches and salads land could be preserved. Two transportation provided by Blue acres of South Orleans upland while getting to know each other lots remain: we are weighing Claw Tours. Board members given to the Trust by Margaret better. Before we reboarded the feasibility of raising funds to Bob Prescott and Mon Cochran Cochran in 1970. Mon narrated for the trip back to Meeting- purchase one or both. provided commentary as we a history of those lands dating house Pond, Bob offered our viewed several OCT properties from 1907, when his grand- guests heartfelt thanks for their NEW WAYS TO SAY THANKS from the water. parents first bought acreage support. We hope to make such We know that people support First stop was our White’s overlooking the Narrows. occasions a regular part of our OCT because they believe in Lane parcel on Meetinghouse Appetites whetted, we “people to people” approach.

Ways to Support OCT through Wills and Trusts

Bequests in one form or another use or to fund a special need. • Name charitable interests to Migliore at 508-255-0183, are an ideal way to give to the receive a bequest in the event or via e-mail at emigliore@ • Provide for a gift of property. that legacies to other heirs can- Trust. A charitable gift requires a Real estate, stocks, and other orleansconservationtrust.org. not be fulfilled. simple provision or amendment items of value can all be used to prepared by your attorney at the fund charitable bequests. To plan any charitable time you make or update your bequest, consult an attorney • Designate a percentage of will or trust. There is no limit on regarding the best method to your estate as a gift to OCT deductions from federal gift and suit your circumstances. For through your will or living trust. estate taxes for charitable gifts information about remembering made by will or trust. You can • Give the remainder, or residue, Orleans Conservation Trust in of your estate: what remains after • Make a gift of a specific your will or living trust, please amount, designated for general bequests to friends and loved contact Director Elizabeth ones are satisfied.

Fall/Winter 2015-2016 5 managing our lands

Tending the Terrapin “Gardens” Audubon volunteers monitored Back in 2009, OCT used a the nest sites twice daily from $100,000 state grant to restore May through September. A total the White’s Lane Conservation of 12 nests were discovered, Area as field habitat for and 50 hatchlings released. The several species, and especially public was invited to attend to encourage nesting by the a release of 28 hatchlings threatened diamond-back at White’s Lane marsh on terrapin, a state-listed species. September 10, and the Cape The turtles also require Cod Times covered the event. marshland adjacent to the sandy The baby terrapins were upland. This summer, as in recovered from one of three every year since then, staff and monitored nests, observed volunteers from the Trust and overnight at the Sanctuary, then the Mass Audubon Wellfleet brought back to their birthplace Wildlife Sanctuary managed for release. the “turtle gardens” by raking, weeding, and mowing. Right around the nesting areas, grass must be cleared because the roots can act as “predators” of the buried terrapin eggs, growing into and destroying the eggs. As part of a larger terrapin study on the Cape, Mass

Steve O’Grady, the Trust’s outgoing Dorothy Rowe Boyle intern, took part in the White’s Lane manage- ment work.

Mending Fences at Mill Pond On August 5, volunteers from the Mill Pond Preservation Association collaborated with OCT to repair the split- rail fence at Mill Pond Conservation Area. The original fencing was in rough shape, with rails eroding away and many posts split down the middle or rotted at the bottom. The replacement took longer than expected, requiring an entire morning of hard labor, but the new fence looks great! Special thanks to Steve Phillips for coordinating this project.

6 Fall/Winter 2015-2016 natural wonders Monarchs, Migrations, and Milkweed By Paul Rifkin en years ago I traveled the summer, as the monarchs to Michoacan, Mexico, move northward, and a new to view one of the generation of butterflies soon Tgreat wildlife phenomena on emerges to fly farther north, to earth: the winter congregation Cape Cod and beyond. In the of North America’s monarch fall, the migration turns south butterflies. Since time and, just like their forebears, the immemorial, monarchs (several generations millions of removed) return to the fir trees monarchs of Michoacan. Cod and as far north as Boston. community organizer, and found- have migrated Milkweed is essential for the Please join us to learn more and er of the Monarch Project of Cape 3,000 miles monarchs to survive the arduous help save the monarchs. Cod. Visit www.facebook.com/ each year, journey and reproduce, but for Paul Rifkin ______pages/Monarch-Project-of-Cape- from Mexico various reasons, the milkweed Paul Rifkin, is a restaurateur Cod, and come hear Paul and his to the northern U.S. and plant is vanishing across North (he owns the Moonakis Cafe colleagues speak about their work Canada, and back again. With a America, and so the migration in Falmouth), a professional on Monday, May 2, 6:45 pm at Mexican guide I rode horseback has diminished greatly. Last photographer and videographer, a the Orleans Yacht Club. high into the Sierra Madre summer, few monarchs were mountains, where the butterflies seen on the Cape. To help “hibernate” in fir trees. Luck replenish the migration—and A Monarch Miscellany was with me, and a sunny April indeed perhaps to help save • Monarchs roost for the winter • Unlike other butterflies that can day revealed a sky obscured by the species—the Reverend in oyamel fir forests nearly 2 miles overwinter as larvae, pupae, or above sea level. The mountain countless orange-black-and- Nell Fields and congregants of even as adults, monarchs cannot hillsides provide an ideal white beauties. I broke down the Waquoit Congregational survive the cold microclimate. crying at the striking spectacle. Church have partnered with northern winters. Since returning to the Cape other concerned citizens to • Tens of • Monarchs are thousands I’ve been photographing the launch the Monarch Project of the only butterfly of monarchs monarchs every summer. Cape Cod. known to make a can cluster on Last summer, though, The group provides and two-way migration, a single tree. as birds do. there were none in my garden. helps distribute milkweed Oyamel trees can usually support Sadly, one of Cape Cod’s most seeds across Cape Cod, for • To find their the clustering beautiful summer visitors may free. We have collaborated with overwintering site, butterflies, but no longer be returning. The gardeners, schools, faith-based monarchs probably sometimes use a combination reasons have to do with the groups, conservation land branches break. of directional aids monarch’s unique life cycle trusts, and others to educate such as the earth’s • The western population of and food source: the milkweed the community about the threat magnetic pull and the position of monarchs in North America plant. During the course of their to the monarchs and promote the sun. overwinters in California. northward migration, the female the planting of milkweed. Last • Monarchs use a combination of • Every backyard can become monarchs lay their eggs on the spring, we gave away more air currents and thermals to travel an oasis for monarchs and other milkweed leaves. This cycle than 200,000 milkweed seeds long distances. pollinators. is repeated several times over and seedling plugs across Cape Fall/Winter 2015-2016 7 talks & walks Winter/Spring 2016 Lectures Join us at the Orleans Yacht Club for the latest in our series of entertaining and informative talks by local and regional experts. Time, 6:45 – 7:45 pm. Admission free (cash bar); doors open 30 minutes before the start time..

The Gray Curtain The Lowdown on Peter Trull Terrapins Field naturalist and author Bob Prescott and Barbara Peter Trull’s latest book is The Brennessel Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Gray Curtain: The Impact of Seals, Wildlife Sanctuary Sharks, and Commercial Fishing on the Northeast Coast — a topic of The diamondback terrapin, a great interest here. Peter’s talks state-listed threatened species, is are always highly informed and the only salt marsh turtle in the entertaining. A short book signing U.S., reaching its northern limit will follow the presentation. in Wellfleet. You’ll learn about the natural history of terrapins, Monday, January 4, 2016 research efforts in Wellfleet, and the restoration work OCT has

completed at White’s Lane. Burning in the National Seashore: Monday, April 4, 2016 Why and When Dave Crary Cape Cod National Seashore Fire Migrating Monarchs Management Officer Paul Rifkin, Kathy Koplik, and Vince Puleo Learn about fire management on Monarch Project of Cape Cod the Cape, including fuel reduction and prescribed burning carried out The Monarch Project of Cape Cod to maintain healthy ecosystems and is a collaboration of concerned reduce the risk of wildfire. residents and groups, organized in response to declining numbers of Monday, February 1, 2016 monarchs globally. They distribute free milkweed seeds, aiming to repopulate the species by providing Are We Losing the this valuable food source during Outer Beach? the monarchs’ migration to Cape Greg Berman Cod. (See story on page 7.) Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Monday, May 2, 2016 Cooperative Extension Greg will discuss issues around erosion on the Outer Beach, including a quick glacial history, how the beach formed and how it’s To help support the Trust’s affected by coastal processes, the educational programs, please current state of erosion, and the future of the beach. make a donation at our website, Monday, March 7, 2016 www.orleansconservationtrust.org

8 Fall/Winter 2015-2016 walks & talks Winter/Spring 2016 Walks Get to know the open spaces of Orleans on our popular educational walks. They’re free, fun, and appropriate for all ages.

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Fall/Winter 2015-2016 9 exploring our heritage

On Reuben’s Pond The Hopkins Family Legacy in East Orleans

By Stephen A. Hopkins mong the lands protected by the Back in 1978, I trans- Trust in East Orleans is the Ice ferred to the Orleans House Pond and Reuben’s Pond Conservation Trust AConservation Area—just over 25 acres a parcel of land off comprising four separate gifts made by two Hopkins Lane in East old Orleans families. The acreage around Orleans, which I had Ice House Pond was donated by the Moore inherited—along with family; the Reuben’s Pond gifts came from Reuben Hopkins several other lots in the the family of Steve Hopkins, who describes area—from my father, its history on the land below. Reuben S. B. Hopkins, who died in 1974. A The conservation area features 1.5 pond on this land had been called Goose miles of walking trails, with frontage on Ice Pond, but when I had the area surveyed and House and Reuben’s Ponds. Once cleared for created a plan, I renamed it Reuben’s Pond farming, the land has re-vegetated with both in memory of my father. Since then, it has Top: Reuben’s Pond from the southern shore. Above: The rock and plaque placed by Steve native and invasive species. Encircled by a been known by that name. Hopkins at the trailhead. walking path, Reuben’s Pond is an especially Dad had owned a large tract of land popular birding spot. The conservation area off Hopkins Lane. During his retirement and its trails constitute a rare and well-loved he set up a road called Captain Curtis Way stretch of natural habitat preserved from de- through the area, and divided part of the velopment in this built-out part of town. It’s a land along the road as lots, which he sold great place to take a short walk in the woods. over time for retirement income. Paths were 10 Fall/Winter 2015-2016 set up around our pond, and from there through the property donated to OCT by the “A pond on this land had been Moores. My plan for the land laid out a path called Goose Pond, but when I and steps from Captain Curtis Way down to the existing path around the pond. Preserv- had the area surveyed and creat- ing this path was my motive for donating ed a plan, I renamed it Reuben’s the property to the Trust, knowing that I’d Pond in memory of my father.” be unable to maintain it as I aged, and my children lived elsewhere. Beside the road, — Stephen A. Hopkins at the entrance to this path, I arranged to place a stone with a plaque designating “The Reuben S. B. Hopkins Memorial Trail.” The pond was always a special place for me. Growing up during the early 1940s, while World War II was in full swing, my boyhood friends and I played heated war games around the pond and in the nearby woods. We had an old rowboat, to which we attached a pole with a large sheet, and sailed down the pond while being bombarded by mud bombs thrown by our enemies on shore. On the bank overlooking the pond, we eventually built a hut from fallen logs to continuously ever since those early years. use as our “headquarters.” As generations of Hopkinses succeed- The land around Reuben’s Pond had ed to ownership of the Tonset land, parcels been owned by members of the Hopkins were sold off or given away. By1920, three family for many generations. In 1644, Gyles centuries after the first Stephen Hopkins Hopkins and his family were among the first landed on these shores, only a few family to settle in the South Parish of Eastham, members, including my father, owned land which eventually became Orleans. Gyles was there. The lots I inherited have now been the eldest son of my ancestor, Stephen Hop- sold, except for the land that we transferred kins, who came over on the Mayflower with to the Trust. In this way, of course, it has his family in 1620 and settled at Plymouth been set aside for the benefit of everybody, Plantation. Gyles engaged in fishing and including myself. I remember with pleasure farming on the small property he settled. walking around the pond with my two Great The Nauset Indians, who had been in the Danes. area for centuries, were fortunately peaceful By the way, that place overlooking the and, unlike the colonists, did not view land pond where we boys built our hut? Much as an asset to be owned. Gyles was eventual- later, in 1970, a young woman named Sylvia ly granted large tracts of land in the Tonset McMeen bought a lot from Dad and built ______area, apparently by officials in Eastham. a nice, comfortable house just above where Steve Hopkins, retired in 1998 from his The house Gyles built overlooked the hut had been. We didn’t know each other career as a busy trial attorney in Boston. He what is now the Town Cove. Gyles’s sister, at the time, but I now live in that house on and Sylvia now spend winters in Anguilla and Constance, married Nicholas in 1627; Captain Curtis Way with Sylvia, who became summers at their house off Hopkins Lane. He their family joined Gyles in the Tonset area my wife. In this way I am carrying on the is the author of two books; the most recent, several years later. Members of the Snow family tradition of residing in the Tonset The Memoirs of a Cape Codder, is available and Hopkins families have lived in this area area. on Amazon. Fall/Winter 2015-2016 11 on the water

Andrew De Lory Photo Secretary Jewell with trustees Mon Cochran and Diana Landau on Pilgrim Lake in Orleans. Interior Secretary Visits OCT Lands On a three-day getaway to Orle- ans in late September, U.S. Sec- retary of the Interior Sally Jewell Kayak Convoy to Little Sipson’s and her husband, Warren— One of our most popular tation, birds, and the surround- dedicated sailors in their home “hikes” of 2015 wasn’t a hike ing marine environment, which waters of Puget Sound—leaped at all. On a gorgeous Monday features some of the healthi- at the chance for a tour of Pleas- morning in August, 20 or so est eelgrass beds in the state. ant Bay on the Susurrus people in kayaks, canoes, even Little Sipson’s became an OCT skippered by OCT trustee Mon paddleboards voyaged from the property in 1991, after an Oc- Cochran. The opportunity arose Quanset Town Landing to Little tober gale swept away the only from a family connection with Sipson’s Island on the outer dwelling on the privately owned another trustee, Diana Landau. reaches of Pleasant Bay, about a island and the Trust raised Secretary Jewell, “a huge fan of 20-minute paddle. Beaching our $150,000 to acquire it—our very land trusts,” as she put it, ap- crafts, we tramped around the first land purchase. See http:// preciated the chance to see the perimeter while Bob Prescott orleansconservationtrust. many Trust lands in the South shared his capacious knowledge org/little-sipson-island-kay- Orleans area, mostly from the of the island’s topography, vege- ak-trip-recap/ for more. water. Hiking Pochet to “Celebrate Our Waters” By contrast, the first day of autumn was gray and threatening when 35 hardy walkers set out from the Nauset Beach parking lot to Pochet Island, but the prospect of visiting or revisiting this private inholding of the National Seashore kept spirits warm. Our friends at Orleans Pond Coalition arranged with the Payson family for this walk, co-led by OCT’s current and former directors, Liz Mi- gliore and Kris Ramsay. Tim Payson showed us the family dwellings on the island, the 30-plus acres recently cleared of invasives, and the stupendous ocean and bay views from the high point at the south end. This remote piece of Orleans feels preserved in time. For more details, see http://orleansconservationtrust.org/po- chet-island-walk-recap/. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Warren Jewell aboard Mon Cochran’s catboat Susurrus on Pleasant Bay. Jewell took the helm more than once.

12 Fall/Winter 2015-2016 giving Gifts and Donations Membership Year 2014–2015 From July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, Orleans Conservation occasion or a milestone or to honor their service. Gifts “in memory Trust received support from its members and the community in the of” celebrate the life of someone who has passed away. form of unrestricted donations and restricted gifts, which specifically Every gift, in whatever amount and for whatever purpose, support land acquisition, land management, or educational programs. demonstrates your commitment to conserving land and plays a vital The Trust also received special gifts made in honor or in memory role in helping OCT fulfill its mission— acquire and land in of someone designated by the giver. Gifts “in honor of” recognize a its natural state for conservation purposes forever, for the use and family member, loved one, or friend, sometimes to mark a special benefit of the whole community.

Unrestricted Donations & Restricted Gifts

$10,000 and above Hess and Helyn Kline Foundation Joseph Beals Pete and Sandy Griffiths Gary and Jean Webster John Kelsey William and Karen Benjamin Susan Rita Grosdov Mark P. Kritzman and Elizabeth H. Richard and Jeanne Berdik H. H. Snow & Sons, Inc. $5,000 – $10,000 Gorman Louis and Jeanne Billera Peter and Jayne Hamel Andrew Barnard Jamie and Penny Ladd George Bissell Hunter and Hildegarde Hannum John and Alison Ferring Vincent and Abigail Maddi Andrew R. and Margaret H. Black Betsy Harding Steve and Anne Koehler Paul and Kathleen McNulty Adele Bloomfield Peter and Kathryn Henry Beth and Larry Minear John and Patricia Reohr Gary Bowden and Mark Ziomek Jonathan S. Hickok Linda and Leonard Rosen Michael and Janet Brink Bradley and Kathleen Hoffman $1,000 – $4,999 Lee and Cecilia Sandwen Andrew and Sally Buffington Don and Jean Holm Anonymous (3) John Smith and Susan Meisinger Miriam Butzel Steven and Moira Hoskins Don Bakker The Cape Cod Foundation Shari and Michael Cantor Richard Iandoli Cape Cod Five Charitable C. Edward and Susan Trump William and Dorothy Carr Charles and Sally Jacob Foundation Frank and Marjorie Zelinski Paul and Virginia Carrington Richard L. Jacobs and Carl Jane and Marvin Corlette James and Nancy Case Woodbury Robert and Rigney Cunningham $300 – $499 David and Susan Chandler Burton Jaffe Paul and Sharon Davis Anonymous (2) Brian and Joan Condon David and Julianne Jarvis Richard Debs and Barbara Lynn Bruneau Thomas and Janice Conklin Jewish Communal Fund Knowles-Debs Peter and Joan Buxton Robert and Sylvia Cotter Mayo Johnson Eric T. and Heidi Franzen Steven and Joyce Davis John Coughlan and Lorraine Peter and Ellie Johnson Peter Geithner Nadia Finkelstein Coughlin Leonard and Patricia Johnson Alan and Virginia George Dick and Dee Kling Robert and Sheryl Crowley Peter Joseph Herbert and Anne Gullquist Donald and Janet Kowalsky Mary Jane Curran and Donald Thomas and Jacqueline Jurkowski William and Mari-Ann Hogan James Lawrence and Susan Cameron Janet Justus and Andrea Wickerham Ivan and Julie Humphreys Simmonds Andrew De Roma Jack and Cynthia Kadzik Kraft Foods Group Foundation Howard and Diane Mager Suzanne Dean Marion Kaiser Alfred S. Morse and Annette S. Scott and Robin McIntyre Thomas and Anne Degnan Bertram and Martha Kantor Morse Foundation Larry and Kathryn Medford Helen Delano and Noel Potter, Jr. Alan and Catherine Keener Fred and Barbara Murphy Bob and Lyn Oleksiak Elizabeth deLima Mariner Kemper Vincent Ollivier and Kevin Galligan Hans and Alison Rilling Edith Denney Frederick and Jill Klein Bob and Patty Platten Judith Scanlon and Sig Winslow Norman and Joy Deschene Eliot and Millicent Knight Robert Prescott Patricia Schoeffel and James Roslyn Diamond and Michael David and Anita Kraft Michael and Patricia Schumaecker Bampos Harnett Dan and Marion Krupka William and Cynthia Treene Charles and Michelle Silbert Charles and Betsy Dow Neal and Marilyn Leleiko Gwyned Trefethan Frederick and Lisa West Donna Drewnowski Garner and Marilyn LeStage Richard Walton and Susan Olsen Bruce and Sheryl Wolf Philip Dutton Linda Louis Robert and Concetta Duval Jean and Richard Lucas $500 – $999 $100 – $299 Raymond Ennis Edward and Mary Lynch William and Nancy Brotherton Anonymous (6) Stanley and Barbara Eskin John Makowske Jeff and Susan Cahill Thomas S. and Gillian M. Anderson Maria Ewald Dennis and Kathleen Manning Cornerstone Real Estate Mark and Sue Aquino Daniel and Franca Filomeno Joan Mayer Emerson and Clotilde Davis Charles and Elfriede Ashby Ann Fleck-Henderson Jim McCauley Peter and Constance Deeks Arthur Augustensen Pamela and Charlie Foss Alan and Fran McClennen Timothy and Eliza Earle Joanne Baldauf Gary and Ethel Furst David and Denise McConney Daniel Emerson Richard and George-Anne Barnes Betsy Furtney Neil and Nancy McGrath Rick and Joan Francolini Christopher and Kathy Barry Karl and Judith Goldkamp Kenneth and Gussie McKusick

Fall/Winter 2015-2016 13 Page McMahan Storage Richard and Linda Colville Donald and Cheryl Haswell Diana Mellin Jackie Stowell Sueann Corrigan John Hax and Carolyn Ackerman J. Stephen and Ana Mernick Robert and Abby Summersgill John D. and Barbara A. Cotnam Ruth Hayes Gilbert and Elizabeth Merritt Leo Swift and Amy Auerbach Coughlan Enterprises, Inc. Mary Haynes and Douglas Wilcock J. William and M. Louise Miller Gregory and Andrea Thomajan Timothy R. and Carol B. Counihan Herb Heidt and Eliza McClennen Susan Milton and Cynthia Eagar Peter Robert and Doris Countryman Donald Heines Lida Miner Andrew and Benjye Troob Chester and Janet Crabtree Pam Herrick Christopher Mines James and Patricia G. Tyng Jay Cronin Susan Hetzel Allen and Paula Mitchell Megan Tyrrell Arlene and Christopher Curley Benjamin and Ali Hicks Walter and Nancy Morgan Jacquelyn Ursitti Stephen and Kathleen Czick Douglas and Nancy Hinman Morgan Stanley Global Impact Howard and Lisa Van Vleck Paul Daverio Cheryl Hoenemeyer Funding Trust Jonathan Vaughan and Sharon Jim and Sandra Davidson Jean Holden Franklin and Kimberly Moss Hayes Patrick and Kathleen Davin Jon H. and Barbara S. Holt Michael and Ellen Mulroney Homer and Elizabeth Walker Patricia Dawson John and Joanne Hooper James and Kathlyn Murphy Frances Webb George and Brenda Delaney Star Hopkins Joe and Maile Naylor Robert and Susan Weeden Greg DeLory and Diana Landau Mary Green Horvath Richard Neilson John Whitesides Dorothy DeSimone and Joseph Robert Howard Kingsley and Lynn Nelson Gretchen Wiedie Leghorn Sieglinde Hughes John C. and Carol Newsome Paul and Maureen Wiencek Christopher Donner VMD Jarvis and Judith Hunt Walter North and Judy Ryon Robert and Judy Wilkinson Stephen and Glenda Downs Walter and Suzanne Huskins John Oberteuffer and Katharine Laura Winston Sally Drew Anne Isbister Mockett Bruce Wolff Katherine Drummond Stephan and Paula Jablon Timothy and Susan O’Connor WS Development Associates LLC Lydia Moore Du Pertuis Richard and Marcia Johannesen Glennon J. and Margaret G. O’Grady Frederick O. and Christine P. Yohn Raymond and Laura Dufresne John Hancock Financial Services, Andrew and Colleen Oleski Robert and Joyce Zavorskas Michael and Karen Jane Dunne Inc. Peter and Patricia Orcutt James Zemaitis Jeffrey Eagles and Fujita Yasuko Erik and Sandra Jorgensen Celeste and Raymond Ormerod Lee Ziegler-Prouty Scott and Dawnnica Eastman Edward and Patricia Joyce Leon Osterweil and Lori Clarke Kenneth and Cheryl Eisner Stephen and Erica Kaplan Erica and Francisco Parra Under $100 Anne and Kelley Anne Ekstrom John and Elizabeth Lamalfa Kelly Leslie and Carl Pearson Anonymous (9) Dana and Lynne Eldridge Helen Kelsey Adrienne Carr Pfluger Herbert and Lorraine Ackerman Bill and Sally Elliott Rita and Judith Kenney Ken and Jillian Pieciak Paul and Marjorie Ammann W. Ward and Anne Ellsasser Jennifer King Robert Plumb III and Laura Plumb Mark and Mary Anderson Isabel Elmer and Victoria Kanaga Donald and Sandra Klein J. Emile and Pamela Poirier William and Lorna Babcock Brian Embleton Robert Kloumann Susan Porth Mary Katharine Balcke David and Lucy Emerson Mildred Knop Don and Linda Post Robert and Candice Barker Julia Enroth Norman and Judith Lasca Gordon and Sylvia Pott Ralph and Maryellen Barone Willard and Kathleen Enteman Gail Meyers Lavin Doris Prescott Robert and Lorraine Barry Robert Evans Richard Lawler Alice Prince and B. Smith Hopkins William Becker Robert and Celine Fahey Joan Leary Donald Procter Nigel and Elizabeth Bentley John and Patricia Fallender H. Bruce Lederhouse and Susan Charles and Sally Proctor Herbert Bevans William and June Farnham Lederhouse Charlotte Read Scott Biller and Christine Masi Kyle Farrell Marilyn Leombruno Patrick and Janet Regan Donald and Karen Bogert Megan Geist Fates Alan and Elizabeth Levitt Frederick H. Roessle Nicholas and Sonja Bono Frank and Maureen Fernandez Walter and Doris Lipman William and Jean Romeo Stephen and Marilyn Bornemeier Arthur and Susan Ferrara Esther Lobo Arthur and Glenna Rosenzweig James and Susan Brickey Edward and Anna Filardi Elizabeth Longsworth and Tom Ken and Patricia Rowell Peter and Jean Brickman Thomas W. and Mary Finan Kreyche Robert Royce Carolyn Broman Bruce Fishbein Peter Macero Bruce and Kathleen Ryan Peter and Melissa Brown Christel Fjelde Donald and Julie Mackie Stephen Sagon Thomas Bryan and Jean Olson Michael and Patricia Fontanarosa Peter and Joan Maffetone Paul and Mary Elizabeth Sandman Joel and Judy Bullard Douglas and Dianne Fromm Meghan Mahieu David and Nancy Shactman John and Janet Swan Bush Ellen Gabrielli Scott and Janice Marble Aryeh Shander and Susan Sherloc Alfred and Christine Butler Therese Galligan Donald Marchitto Shander Anthony and Barbara Caldamone Albarosa and Kenneth Gandolfi Richard and Kathleen Martino Joe and Cheryl Shattie Malcolm and Jill Carlisle Andre and Renalde Gelinas Gerard and Theresa McCarthy Daniel and Judith Shay Lewis and Lois Carrington Allen and Martha Gibbs Rachael T. McClennen and Gina Dean and Nina Smith Peter and Deborah Carter Robert and Boots Gibson Escamilla Richard B. and Barbara Smith Susan Christie Judith Gilchrest Brendan McCray and Anna Besciak David and Susan Snider Chubb Group Insurance Company Brian and Amy Hedler Gillespie Roger and Joan McDaniel Stanley H. and Bonnie Snow Gregory and Jackie Clifford Teresa Gilman Bruce L. and Nancy R. McKinstry Sid Snow Eugene and Jessica Clothiaux Steven and Margaret Gilmore Donald and Martine McLaughlin Lawrence and Anne Spaulding Josh and Michele Cochin Richard and Susan Goldman Wilfried Mehring and Sonia Nelson Stark Family Trust Susan Cochran and David Larkin Agnes Gorman Anita Mewherter Howard E. Steilen and Marguerite Moncrieff Cochran Carolyn Granlund Ronald and Diane Mgrdichian Martin Richard B. and Wendy Kahn Cohen Robert and Norma Gwin Jean-Louis Mieusset Andrew Stern Roslyn B. Coleman Virigina Hardman Richard and Charlotte Miller Stoneview Realty–Burlington Self William Colling and Pamela Weiler David and Margaret Harris Jeffrey Mills

14 Fall/Winter 2015-2016 Maxine Minkoff Marjorie Sparrow Gwyned Trefethan Leslie Pike Jules Morris Judith and Kathryn Spellacy Marilyn Leombruno Orin and Nancy Segall Steve Morrison Keith Spencer Leslie and Carl Pearson William and Judith Weil Joe Munk David and Elizabeth Stauffer Robert and Celine Fahey Brian and Gale Murray Helen and William Stempsey Mary (Sitter) Emerson Judith Brainerd Raymond Nash John and Anne Stradal Daniel Emerson William and Norma Solberg George and Patricia Neher Patricia Switzer Evelyn Rencurrel Barbara Neilson Michael Tack William and Anabel Fallo Robert and Boots Gibson Thomas and Carolyn Nelson James Taggart Barbara Fallon Louis and Constance Nero Jeffrey Talmadge and Joan Reese Sherman Reed Peggy Niemann Talmadge Clare Forbes Susan Milton and Cynthia Eagar Charlotte and Victor Noerdlinger Christopher and Susan Tapscott Mary Jane Curran and Donald Charles Ognibene and Lori Holik Janet Taylor Cameron Anita Twomey Marion Olsen Denny and Christine Teason Alfred and Christine Butler Thomas Olsen Joseph and Jean Tenney Carol Foresman Peter O’Meara Bob and Judith Terry Anita Mewherter George and Mary Webbere Silvio and Jean Onesti Bobbie Thomsen W. Ward and Anne Ellsasser Maria Ewald John and Helen Page Michael and Susan Thonis Joe and Cheryl Shattie Charles and Patricia P. Parmenter B. Philippe Tinmouth Gregory and Jackie Clifford Mary Webbere Walter and Alice Paroby John and Amelia Trautwein Gilbert and Elizabeth Merritt Emerson and Clotilde Davis E. Donald and Joanne Patterson Claudia Trend Emerson and Clotilde Davis Gerald H. and Althea Dorman Christian Paul Nello and Holly Trevisan Bill and Sally Elliott Adrienne Carr Pfluger Robert Pavone B. A. Tsacoyeanes Raymond Ennis Laura Payson Barbara Tucker Leslie and Carl Pearson Peno Realty Company Leila Tupman David and Julianne Jarvis In honor of David and Wendy Pepin James and Carolyn Turnbull Donald and Cheryl Haswell Dorothea Pershing Stephen Turner Donna Drewnowski Lynn Bruneau Harry Lynn and Dona Pike Edward and Bernice Van Giezen Pam Herrick Peggy Niemann Douglas and Elizabeth Prentiss Janet Van Tassel and Steve Park Patricia Dawson James and Janice Prince C. M. Vanderburgh Patricia Switzer Sharon Davis Philip and Mariann Rand Remsen Scott Vickrey Andrew De Roma Emerson and Clotilde Davis William and Ann Rawstron Gordon and Marilyn Vought Stephen Turner Clifton R. and Arleen Read William and Judith Weil Charles and Elfriede Ashby Nadia Finkelstein Roger and Lynn Read Roger and Julia Wells Miriam Butzel Kenneth and Susan Read-Brown James and Margaret West Gerald F. Gilmore Judith B. Reed Justin Wharton Peter and Jayne Hamel Bette Fishbein Ronald and Linda Reed David White Harry K. Herrick Bruce Fishbein Joseph and Joan Regan Jane Wiedenman Vincent and Abigail Maddi Evelyn Rencurrel Lois Witt Lisa Fitzgibbons Charles and Adeline Moore Elisabeth Rewcastle Christopher and Mary Wolf Christopher Mines Lydia Moore Du Pertuis George Robb Charles Woodward Edward and Gail Rogers Lawrence and Patricia Young Curtis Pfluger Arnold Henson Ernie and Anita Rogers Morton and Meredith Young Adrienne Carr Pfluger Mayo Johnson Claire Ruggieri and Bernadette Bob and Leslie Pike Heaney Jeffrey Short Beth Minear Mefford Runyon and Bonny SPECIAL GIFTS John O. Mellin, Jr. Gretchen Wiedie Campbell-Runyon Diana Mellin Charles P. and Faye Ruopp In memory of Robert Pike Mary Scanlon Jodie Montoya Harry Lynn and Dona Pike Don Bakker Pam and Robert Schultz Dorothy Rowe Boyle Ann Fleck-Henderson August and Susan Schumacher Robert and Sheryl Crowley Bob Prescott Robert Kloumann Betsy Anne Seel Susan Rita Grosdov Doris Prescott Edward and Mary Lynch Orin and Nancy Segall Jonathan S. Hickok James and Kathlyn Murphy William and Jean Semple Mary Green Horvath Charlotte B. Read Tom and Carolyn Nelson Benjamin and Donna Sharpe Peter Macero Clifton and Arleen Read Peter and Patricia Orcutt John and Maureen Shine Joseph and Joan Regan Kenneth and Susan Read-Brown Robert Pavone Todd and Mary Shipman Stoneview Realty – Burlington Self Gordon and Sylvia Pott Jeffrey Short Storage Mary Janeth Scanlon David and Nancy Shactman David Silberberg and Joseph David White Dean and Nina Smith Daniel and Judith Shay Silberberg-Edwards WS Development Associates LLC Howard E. Steilen and Marguerite Robert Singer and Sandra Rhodes Judy Scanlon and Sigurd Winslow Martin Melvin and Karena Slotnick Harriet DeWitt Dean and Nina Smith John and Anne Stradal Peter Smith Susan Hetzel Robert and Joyce Zavorskas Donald and Linda Smith Robert and Marjorie Vickrey Lawrence and Joanne Smith David Eagles Remsen Scott Vickrey Samuel R. Payson William and Norma Solberg Elisabeth Rewcastle Laura Payson Jean Souther Mary Haynes and Douglas Wilcock

Fall/Winter 2015-2016 15 NON PROFIT Orleans US POSTAGE PAID Conservation CURLEYDIRECT. Trust COM P.O. Box 1078 East Orleans, MA 02643-1078

Could You Be a Land Steward? Absolutely! We’re always seeking volunteers to help look out for OCT’s 465 acres in Orleans. The time commitment and knowledge needed are small, but the rewards are big—for you and for the Trust. Orleans To pursue this or other volunteer opportunities, call us at 508-255-0183 Conservation or go to our website, Trust http://orleansconservationtrust.org/ volunteer-interest-survey/

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