Groups who provide stewardship for Plymouth open spaces
Click here for information on how to start a friends group!
- Excitement over the Herring Run at Town Brook
Click on our upcoming page for scheduled cleanups!
We welome photos of your favorite area – email to sfos1@verizon.net
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Boot Pond Association
Thirsty swan on one of Plymouth's many ponds
Tom Reardon | bootpond1@verizon.net
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Briggs Property
Pete Sterns | pbsterns1@aol.com
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Burial Hill, Friends of
Friends of Burial Hill was organized to protect and enhance the cemetery and its environs. Our goals are preservation of the physical grounds, and conservation of gravestones, memorials and commemorative sites. We seek to promote awareness of the history of those buried or symbolized thereof, and interpret culture, architecture and sculpture of the time since 1620. The Friends are working with the town to improve conditions and to have the cemetery listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cheryl Caputo | cheryl.burialhillfriend@comcast.net
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Center Hill Preserve
Overlooking Center Hill Pond and the sea
Melissa Colangelo | centerhillfarm@gmail.com
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Downtown – see Jenny Pond
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Eel River Headwaters Preserve
Spring comes to Eel River Preserve
Susan Fugazzi | srlfugazzi@comcast.net
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Eel River Watershed Association
Eel River Restoration
Mettie Whipple | info@eelriverwatershed.org
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Ellisville Marsh, Inc., Friends of
Eric Cody | Eric@EllisvilleMarsh.org
Paula Marcoux | themagnificentleaven@gmail.com
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Fresh Pond, Friends of
Marilyn Byrne | MByrne@townhall.plymouth.ma.us 508-224-1967
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Gurnet Point – friends group needed
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Herring Ponds Watershed Association
Brian Harrington | bharr41@yahoo.com
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Jenny Pond & Downtown, Friends of
Plymouth students enjoying the trail from Jenny Pond to Brewster Gardens
Brahim Dagher | brahim.dagher@gmail.com
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Long Beach – Friends group needed
- Piping plover blending into its habitat
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Morton Park, Friends of
Friends of Morton Park formed after a particularly disastrous and trash-strewn July 4th at the park. Thousands of beach-goers, mostly from out of town, inundated the park, parking their cars on private property and setting up their picnic areas on residenst’ front lawns. A good number of people responded to our announcement of forming a Friends group, and we began to contact town officials, with very immediate and positive results. We had productive meetings of the various concerned Department Heads, organized by Town Manager Mark Sylvia, and reasonable plans for crowd control were made and implemented. These plans were modified and strengthened through experience over the years, with the result that every July 4th since has been progressively safer, quieter, cleaner and less crowded. Our Friends organization is strictly informal, unincorporated, and open to all who care for our jewel of a park.
Ted Curtin | theodorecurtin@comcast.net
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Myles Standish State Forest, Friends of
Encompassing 14,640 acres, the Myles Standish State Forest pine barrens provides hikers with a sense of wilderness, awe and tranquility.
The Friends of Myles Standish State Forest (FMSSF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) volunteer group founded in 2007 to promote and conserve the natural, cultural and historic resources of Myles Standish State Forest. We are dedicated to restoring and maintaining the forest and its trails for sustainable recreation, to educating ourselves and others about the forest, and to promoting a healthy habitat for native plants and wildlife. We encourage all visitors to enjoy the forest in a manner consistent with protecting this rare and endangered pine barrens ecosystem.
Sharl Heller, President | (508) 591-7533 | friends@friendsmssf.com
Meeting schedule:
1st Wed. of the Month: Board meeting, forest headquarters conference building, 194 Cranberry Road, Carver, MA 02366
1st Sun of the Month: Guided hikes in lesser known areas of the forest
Meetup events: Hiking and birding outings
Map http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/southeast/mssf.htm
National Monument to the Forefathers - Friends group needed?
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Nelson Park - Friends group needed
Seagulls at Nelson Park
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North Plymouth Friends group being formed!
Dave Gilbert d_gilbert217@comcast.net
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Pine Hills Area, Friends of the
Frank Werny fw11@verizon.net & Anne Lynch
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Plymouth Beach & River Street
Tom & Stephanie Fugazzi | 508-746-2224
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Plymouth Harbor – Friends group needed
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Russell & Sawmill Pond Conservation Area - Friends group needed
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- Seals off Manomet Point
Sands of White Horse Beach Association
Christine Bostek, Founder & President sandswhitehorsebeachassociation@verizon.net
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Saquish Beach - Friends group needed
Cleaned 9-17-11 by Coastsweep volunteers!
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Six Ponds Association
Charlotte Russell | crusselllongpond@aol.com
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Stephens Field, Friends of
Canada geese with goslings
The Friends of Stephens Field formed in the spring of 2008 after town meeting voted to expand the park by adding the former DPW area next to it. The group is made up of people from throughout town: Precinct 3 town meeting members, users of the park, neighbors, and members of the Open Space Committee and the Tidal Beach Committee. The Friends walk the park on a regular schedule to help the Town keep it litter free and to keep an eye on things, while the town explores ways and means to incorporate the DPW area into the existing park.
Bill Keohan | billkeohan@gmail.com
Gerry Sirrico | Lhsges@verizon.net
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Tidmarsh Farms
Gloriana Davenport | glorianna3@gmail.com
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Wellingsley Avenue, Friends of
Phyllis J. Lee | pjbtlee@aol.com
Nancy Jolly | nmjolly24@verizon.net
Troy Riley | troyriley@mac.com
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West Plymouth – friends group needed, volunteer ready to join
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White Island Pond Conservation Alliance
This group has been working with cranberry bog owners to lessen the amount of pesticides and fertilizers that have been polluting the pond over the years.
http://whiteislandpond.org/
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White Horse Beach Association
A pair of mallards gaze out to sea
Paul Duseau | pduseau@southshoretelco.com
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Distinguished Volunteers At Large
The Litter Lady wearing her Trash Hat to a Selectmen's meeting to raise awareness of littering
Joan Bartlett, public relations liaison
Nancy Carroll, “The Litter Lady” | lunacarts@comcast.net
Sandy Clark, webmaster | sfos1@verizon.net & liaison to Mayflower Retired & Senior Volunteer Program | coordinator@mayflowerrsvp.org
John Clement, who never stops beautifying Center Hill Road
Brahim Dagher, website founder | brahim.dagher@gmail.com
Helen Hapgood, 1000 Acres | hapgood@comcast.net
Richard Knox of PGDC, who picked up trash from thirteen Plymouth parking lots 4/11
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The power of Friends has been demonstrated by former groups that have completed their missions!
Friends of Holmes Field
The Friends of Holmes Field formed when a developer who bought the land on the water side of Holmes Field in North Plymouth proposed to build a line of condominiums which would block the much treasured view of the ocean from Court Street. Neighbors had not been apprised of the plan early enough to question this plan as it made its way through town hall, because the properties contiguous to the project, who were sent the required notice, were the railroad, the town and the Trustees of Reservations. The neighbors and others in town took up the cause late in the process, after town permitting. They hired lawyers, went to court and created publicity such as raising red balloons to show the height of the proposed buildings. Though they were not able to stop the development, in the end they effectively sat down with the developers and worked out a mutual agreement to have the height of those buildings immediately blocking the view lowered.
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Friends of the Plymouth County Farm
The Friends of the Plymouth County Farm formed in 2002 after the then Sheriff, without public notice, sold off the milking herd at the Farm. The fear was that the entire Farm could be closed in similar fashion. The Friends were an informal collection of people who through publicity, political persuasion and long-term resolve managed in 2008 to succeed in protecting the Farm with a conservation restriction limiting use to agriculture and/or passive recreation.
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