"Get Plum Island!" - Massachusetts's Ten-Year Fight Over the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge

In late 1944 the federal government took about 20 square miles of Essex County by eminent domain to develop a national wildlife refuge, what we know today as Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. This talk will explore how the USFWS became interested in establishing a wildlife refuge in Massachusetts, and how local communities and the state organized and nearly succeeded in having the refuge abolished.…Learn More