NRD Director Chuckie Green with EPA Director Dunn (center) along with EPA staff with a Poster-Board of the Popponesset Bay Coastal Resilience & Habitat Restoration Project efforts underway in Popponesset Bay.
Last month the USA-Region One (New England) Administrator Alexandra Dapolito Dunn along with Indian Program Manager Michael Stover and Grant Project Officer Kwabena Kyei-Aboagye with Mashpee Wampanoag Natural Resources Director Chuckie Green to view first hand the environmental issues that the Tribe is tackling.
Administrator Dunn was particularly impressed with the work the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe have done to utilize EPA Healthy Communities grant funding to reduce nitrogen levels in Popponesset Bay through oyster aquaculture. This same type of funding supports Native Youth in Science Preserving Our Homeland summer camp program
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Natural Resources Department is committed to developing a comprehensive plan to establish an illegal dumping prevention and monitoring program in the Mashpee Wildlife Refuge and on tribal lands, providing training and employment opportunities to tribal members in the environmental and natural resources field, and continuing our role as stewards of our ancestral lands..
