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E V E N T S
Date 2008	Description	Location	Brochure
Saturday August 16	Wellfleet Conservation Trust Annual Meeting	Wellfleet Library
Saturday September 13 Rain date: Sunday September 14	Second Annual Wellfleet Conservation Trust Walks in Wellfleet - a historic and educational walk, starting with a talk by Seashore historian Bill Burke and a tour of the Atwood Higgins House.  This will be followed by walks on Bound Brook Island, visiting the site of the original Island Schoolhouse built in 1840, a historic family cemetery, and wonderful vistas of Wellfleet Bay.	Bound Brook Island
Saturday September 27	Forces of Nature	WHAT Theater, Wellfleet
November 15	Fifth Annual State of the Wellfleet Harbor Conference	Wellfleet Elementary School
PAST EVENTS
Robert Hankey Receives Cape-Wide Award On August 16, 2007, The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts bestowed the 2007 Award for Excellence in Open Space Preservation to Robert Hankey, a resident of Wellfleet and one of the original founders of the Wellfleet Conservation Trust. Robert’s fame in conservation circles is well known.  He served as President of the Wellfleet Conservation Trust from 1990 to 2003.  Under his guidance the WCT grew from a fledging non-profit to a major force for conservation in the Town.  He led the successful initiative to designate Wellfleet Harbor as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern, and his strong partnership with the Town Open Space Committee led to many of the Town’s conservation purchases.  His personal contacts with local private landowners led to dozens of land gifts to WCT and he has strongly supported and worked on behalf of regional cooperation on land conservation.  For over 30 years, Robert and his wife Eleanor Stefani have operated The Colony of Wellfleet, a retreat of cottages nestled on the slopes off Chequessett Neck Road designed by famed architect Nathaniel Saltonstall. September 2007 Walks: Herring River Restoration Print Brochure On Sunday, September 16, 2007, seventy five individuals participated in the first annual “Walks in Wellfleet” sponsored by the Trust in cooperation with the Cape Cod National Seashore, Herring River Restoration Project and the Town Open Space Committee.  There were four walk options available ranging from one mile to three and three quarter miles along different paths throughout Griffin Island, Wellfleet.  But this was more than just walks over the dunes and through the woods.  Following a brief orientation by Denny O’Connell, Trust President, three highly professional and knowledgeable National Seashore ecologists, John Portnoy, Stephen Smith and Evan Gwilliam each led walkers through different areas of Griffin Island and gave presentations along the way on the Herring River Restoration Project, cultural landscape restoration, upland plant and marsh ecology, and the historical development of the land.  The walks were acclaimed by the participants to be highly informative and enjoyable because of this unique educational feature and the opportunity to see and learn about a portion of Wellfleet that many, even a few long-time Wellfleet residents had not visited.