From the Falmouth Enterprise · August 26, 1983
In a July 20, 1983 letter to Rep. Jeremiah F. Cahir, Environmental Management Commissioner James Gutensohn said the state would allow hunting on newly acquired Washburn Island, following Falmouth’s bylaws, which do not forbid it. Winnifred Woods, now a Falmouth Planning Board member and formerly chairman of CPWB’s steering committee, said people had hunted on the island before, but she worried about unlimited hunting, since both the island and South Cape Beach are stopovers for rare migratory birds.
At South Cape Beach, hunting was not among the uses listed in Mashpee’s takeover agreement with the state, though town bylaws allowed it. About 45 Upper Cape hunters told the South Cape Beach Advisory Commission on August 23 that they wanted hunting and fishing rights. Chairman Morris Kirsner said the land had been taken for passive recreation, and a state wildlife technician said hunting could work with careful management. The commission put off a decision to September 26, an early test of how the new public lands would be run.
Read the full story in the Falmouth Enterprise archive: “Hunting OK On Washburn’s Island” →
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