Supporting Access to Recreational Waters
Channel: Watershed Action Alliance
Date: 2021-03-26

In session 2 of our conference, Environmental Justice in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, speakers tell personal stories and share research about the inequities in access to ponds, lakes, rivers and the ocean for recreation and fishing, especially for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and for people of low income. They also present ways of addressing these inequities from personal actions to legislative solutions. For more resources on this topic, visit https://tinyurl.com/fx7s4z6r


You will find Melissa Ferretti, chairwoman of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, at 4:48.
Vivian Ortiz of the Neponset River Greenway Council starts at 20:35.
Kate Mulvaney of U.S. EPA begins at 38:34