{"id":1762,"date":"2013-02-19T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/blogs\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2013-02-19T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:02:08","slug":"first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Henry\"<\/a>It\u2019s been a little over a month since I started as the new president of Mass Audubon. During this time, I have had the opportunity to visit several wildlife sanctuaries, including Wellfleet Bay<\/a> and Long Pasture<\/a> on the Cape, Habitat<\/a> in Belmont, and Worcester\u2019s Broad Meadow Brook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also met with more than 100 staff members as well as longstanding volunteers, donors, members, and our dedicated Board of Directors. Everyone has been welcoming, patient, upbeat, and extremely informative. In addition, I have discovered the people of Mass Audubon show great professionalism, focus, insight, and pride in their work.<\/p>\n

I was pleased to see that my first impressions are right on target: this is a highly mission-driven organization. Our staff, volunteers, and Board\u00a0 of Directors do not take Mass Audubon\u2019s mission for granted. They go well beyond the \u201cthree legs of the stool\u201d of conservation, advocacy, and education to integrate the parts of the mission in order to create exciting and dynamic synergies.<\/p>\n

In just a short period of time, I\u2019ve seen examples of this at places like Drumlin Farm<\/a> in Lincoln, which has created a successful working farm and thriving business as part of a beautiful and ecologically significant landscape.<\/p>\n

And at Wellfleet Bay<\/a>, where sanctuary director Bob Prescott and his staff are doing cutting-edge research on\u2014and actively protecting\u2014rare species of sea turtles<\/a>. By enhancing these wildlife sanctuaries, our staff and volunteers have created rich, fascinating, and complex teaching vehicles for the thousands of people who participate in our programs<\/a> each year.<\/p>\n

The next opportunity and challenge at Mass Audubon will be to increase other sources of funding that support a range of key mission priorities, including ecological management that anticipates and adapts to climate change, conservation science, increased scholarships to our camp programs, etc.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very important that we not lose a step in the transition from Laura Johnson\u2019s leadership to mine. And I am looking forward to the months and years ahead, when together we make Mass Audubon stronger than ever.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Henry Tepper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a little over a month since I started as the new president of Mass Audubon. During this time, I have had the opportunity to visit several wildlife sanctuaries, including Wellfleet Bay and Long Pasture on the Cape, Habitat in Belmont, and Worcester\u2019s Broad Meadow Brook. I\u2019ve also met with more than 100 staff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-sq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11843,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/mass-audubons-2018-holiday-gift-guide-is-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":1762,"position":0},"title":"Mass Audubon’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide is Here","author":"Ryan D.","date":"November 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you heard? 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