Succession, fire suppression. During 1995, outdoor recreation accounted for 3,756,410 person trips in Massachusetts. Peregrine falcon nest has a viewing camera with 45,000 local viewing homes, with 24hrs. coverage. 1997 held 1 st Becoming an Outdoorswoman. Registration limited to 60-filled within 2 weeks.
Many requests are on file for participation when offered again.
Most of these commissions hold land but very few practice any form of management. The commissioners, all volunteers, lack the information to practice far sighted management on these lands. Also within these towns there are schoolyards which have the potential to serve as outdoor study areas but they too are unmanaged-other than as playing fields. The Education Section regularly receives calls from conservation commissioners and teachers asking for assistance in planning and managing the lands under their control. The Division could easily develop a landowner's management handbook.