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Acknowledgments
Advisory Committee: Whitney Beals, Consultant, Southborough. Susan Brackett, Assistant Town Engineer, Northborough. Nancy Bryant, Executive Director, SuAsCo Watershed Community Council. David Burke, Conservation Biologist, Sudbury Valley Trustees, resident Sudbury. Mike Fleming, SuAsCo Watershed Team Leader, Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. Carol Gumbart, Agent, Bolton (formerly Wayland) Conservation Commission. Chair of SuAsCo Habitat Task Force, resident Stow. Stephen Johnson, Executive Director of Sudbury Valley Trustees, resident Stow. Joan Kimball, Adopt A Stream Program, Riverways Program, Mass. Department of Fisheries, Wildlife & Environmental Law Enforcement., resident Lincoln. Christopher Leahy, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Director Center for Conservation Biology, Lincoln Robert Levite, SuAsCo Outreach Coordinator, UMass Extension. Hank Norwood, Coordinator of Christmas Bird Count, Wayland Circle, resident Wayland. Lydia Rogers, Coordinator of Walden Keeping Track, resident Concord Preston Turner, Conservation Commission, Berlin. Bryan Windmiller, Principal, Hyla Ecological Services, resident Concord.
Focal Species Reviewers: David Burke, Conservation Biologist, Sudbury Valley Trustees. Brian O. Butler, Herpetologist. Oxbow Associates, Acton. Brian Cassie, butterfly specialist. Russ Hopping, Natural Resource Planning Assistant, The Trustees of Reservations. Scott Jackson, Program Coordinator, UMass Extension, Amherst. Ron Lockwood, Ornithologist for Ft. Devens and Assabet National Wildlife Refuge, resident Bolton Hank Norwood, birder and Coordinator of Christmas Bird Count, Wayland. Wayne Peterson, Ornithologist, Massachusetts Audubon Society. Richard K. Walton, naturalist and author, former resident of Concord. Bryan Windmiller, Principal, Hyla Ecological Services, Concord.
Outreach:
The following people helped this project along in many ways from answering questions on the phone, sending out information, and serving as a guide on site visits. My apologies to anyone I have missed. Ray Angelo, Curator, New England Botanical Club Herbarium Elizabeth Bagdonas, Conservation Agent, Bedford; Bolton resident. Henry Barbour, The Nature Conservancy Walter Bickford, Conservation Commissioner, Berlin. Julia Blatt, Executive Director. OAR (Organization for the Assabet River), Concord. Don Burn, Conservation Commission, Westborough. Russell Cohen, Rivers Advocate, Riverways Program, Mass. Department of Fisheries, Wildlife & Environmental Law Enforcement. Betsy Colburn, Biologist, Massachusetts Audubon Society; vernal pool specialist. Cindy DelPapa, Steam Ecologist, Riverways Program, Mass. Department of Fisheries, Wildlife & Environmental Law Enforcement. Bill Fuchs, Biologist, Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord. Tom Gumbart, Agent, Lincoln Conservation Commission; conservation commissioner, Stow. Dick Hatfield, Environmental Director, Haartz Corporation; resident Acton. Ed Holmes, Musketaquid Rod and Gun Club, Concord. Barbara Howell, Wayland Conservation Commission. Pat Huckery, Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program; resident Bolton. Pete Jackson, Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. Arthur Johnson, Environmental Analyst, Division of Watershed Management. Department of Environmental Protection. Barb Kantorski, Chair, Open Space Committee, Sherborn Laurie Kleisgen, Coordinator of Southeastern Massachusetts Natural Resources Plan David Koonce, Conservation Commission, Boxborough. Ron McAdow, Author of Canoeing the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers. Andy Magee, Hydrologist, Epsilon Associates; resident Acton. Joe McGrath, Chair, Conservation Commission, Boylston. Ken Moon, Wayland Conservation Commission. Susan Moore, Teacher, Boylston Doreen Morse, Littleton Conservation Trust. Joan Millham, Massachusetts Audubon Society. Robert Maietta, Aquatic Biologist, Office of Watershed Management, Mass. Department of Environmental Protection. Robert Nuzzo, Office of Watershed Management, Mass. Department of Environmental Protection. Bud Oliveira, Project Leader, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Karen Pelto, Stream biologist, Riverways Program, Mass. Department of Fisheries,Wildlife & Environmental Law Enforcement. Marcus Pinney, Agent, Department of Natural Resources, Concord. Mary Crain Penniman, formerly with Department of Environmental Protection and the SuAsCo Habitat Task Force. Now with the Charles River Watershed Association. Tim Prior, Refuge Manager, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Sudbury. Tom Rawinski, Ecologist, Massachusetts Audubon Society Ed Reiner, Wetland Scientist, EPA, resident Billerica. Priscilla Ryder, Agent, Conservation Department, Marlborough. Jennifer Steele, Chair, Conservation Commission, Maynard. Pat Swain, Ecologist, Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program Tom Tidman, Agent, Natural Resources Department, Acton. Bill Turner, Conservation Administrator, Westford. Barbara Warren, Tracker, resident Boxborough.
Special thanks goes to Mike Fleming, SuAsCo Team Leader, who ushered the proposal through the granting process over the course of a year and a half, and Maria Van Dusen, Director, Riverways Program, Mass. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, who took on the administration of the EOEA grant. Henry Woolsey, Coordinator of the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, Mass. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, provided the resources of his department to assist with rare and endangered species information. Bill Giezentanner, Massachusetts Audubon Society Ecological Extension Service, Lincoln, who with great patience provided the GIS maps. Jeff Collins, also with the Massachusetts Audubon Society Ecological Extension Service, who served as a sounding board in the early stages of the project.
Thanks, also, to my two able assistants Hasso Ewing and Claire Corcoran, who followed me through the swamps and over the hills on site visits, asking pointed questions and giving daily support. And finally, my deepest appreciation to Bernie McHugh, who provided essential computer assistance, helped in the formation of the report, and told me when to turn off the computer and turn out the lights at the end of the day. |