On March 28th, 2020, staff from the Joint-United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)/National Park Service (NPS) Region 5 North County Fire Program conducted a prescribed burn on the Falmouth Rod and Gun Club lands within the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR).
Two acres of field habitat were successfully burned to help with the creation of valuable habitat for pollinators. The crew also burned eight acres of fire-adapted oak-pine forested habitat that is vital to rare species like the New England Cottontail and Northern Long-eared Bat. These burns were part of a multi-agency hazard-fuels-reduction effort taking place within the refuge and across the state as part of the Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy. By United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).