Newsletter

Wild Imaginings:  Please and Thank You By Jeff Thibodeau, Executive Director This is a season of gratitude, reflection and new beginnings. After months of hard work, rapid change, and positive growth within our organization and around the world, we are thankful for your generosity, which made our accomplishments possible. As we approach the end of…

Wild Imaginings: Our Changing Landscape – Crisis or Opportunity? By Jeff Thibodeau, Executive Director “The only thing that is constant is change.” Heraclitus Change is the only certainty in life. Changes can often be uplifting and liberating, like a cocoon blossoming into a butterfly. Other times…. Read More (pdf) Read the entire Spring 2021 newsletter here (pdf)…

At Orenda we believe in doing good things for our environment and our community. We know that with every acre of land we protect, we are saving wildlife and protecting the waters, air, and woods that we all depend upon and turn to for solace in these challenging times. Open space is the gift that…

Please check out our Spring newsletter! Lots of new things happening! We welcome your interest and involvement. Orenda is pleased to announce Jeff Thibodeau as our new Executive Director. Mr. Thibodeau started with Orenda in January. He succeeds Theresa Mitchell Barbo, who left the position in 2019 to pursue her writing career. Longtime Administrator Liz…

Dear Orenda friends, This newsletter celebrates Cooperative Conservation Partnerships, highlighting several of our recent land and wildlife protection projects. It also includes narratives from Directors and conservation advisors, a welcome to some new Board members, our President’s Perspective, the voice of youth, and a few words from our executive director. Last but not least it…

Bill Huss, A Face of Orenda’s Support and Conservation Vision For William “Bill” Huss, it’s the conservation of open space that will preserve our environment. A few years ago, Huss, who has homes in Wayland and Wellfleet, had asked Orenda to hold the Conservation Restriction (C.R.) for 43 acres he owns in the Town of…

Orenda Springs into Summer at Community Events Orenda shares its mission to “preserve and protect open space for wildlife habitat, fresh air and water quality” by attending community events. We love this sort of engagement! Read more in the newsletter (pdf) Remembering a Hero Through Nature’s Healing Strength On Friday, May 3rd, Orenda Wildlife Land…

A Growing Landscape of Protected Acreage Every time Orenda adds open space to our portfolio it’s a win for our mission to preserve and protect open space for wildlife. In the last six months, over 30 acres was added to our conservation family. Read more in the newsletter Turtle watchers needed! We need volunteers in…

Every Precious Parcel Meadow Lane property with marshes and upland Land on Meadow Lane in West Barnstable In late summer, Orenda Wildlife Land Trust swapped land with the Barnstable Land Trust (BLT). We gave BLT ten acres next to their headquarters in West Barnstable. In return, BLT gifted Orenda the parcel next to Smiths Dock…

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