Assabet River NWR Final CCP - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Environmental Education: Staff photo
Chapter 4: Management Direction
Strategy 4: Provide minimally intrusive parking areas as funding and staff
allow.
Objective 2: Provide opportunities for wildlife observation and
photography where such opportunities can be safely
provided while achieving refuge purposes.
Strategy 1: Provide a total of approximately 15 miles of trails for public use
as defined in the phased opening above.
Strategy 2: Construct a wildlife observation platform and a photography
blind. The current, proposed locations of these facilities are depicted on
Map 4-1.
Objective 3: Provide and enhance opportunities for environmental
education, interpretation, and outreach where appropriate
and compatible with refuge purposes.
Strategy 1: Initiate a very active program in local and regional
environmental education and interpretive programs.
Strategy 2: Expand the Complex’s Urban Education
Program to include the refuge and an additional
elementary-middle-high school system within the area.
Strategy 3: Endeavor to work with other school systems to
provide instructional materials and presentations related to
refuge resources and management programs that are
occurring on the refuge.
Strategy 4: Provide teacher workshops when requested, if
staffing allows.
Strategy 5: Construct three informational kiosks at entrances to refuge foot
trails and a self guided interpretive trail with signage and explanatory
pamphlets.
Objective 4: Provide opportunities for hunting and fishing where
appropriate and compatible with refuge purposes.
Parts of the Assabet River NWR will be open for shotgun, primitive
weapons, and archery hunting. Species that will be open for hunting on
various portions of the refuge and the specific areas are identified below
and are depicted on Map 4-1.
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