THE MISSION OF THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

THE MISSION OF THE NORCROSS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION, INC.

THE MISSION OF THE FOUNDATION

The Norcross Wildlife Foundation is actually a by-product of the Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary, established in 1939 by Arthur D. Norcross, with the following goals:

"It shall be a place of refuge where all wildlife is encouraged not just to survive but also to proliferate naturally, and where certain species, now threatened with extinction, may again attain more normal distribution and benefit the public by their survival."

Consequently, the Norcross Wildlife Foundation was established in 1965, being charged then and continuing now to ensure the integrity of the Sanctuary in perpetuity.

It was Mr. Norcross' wish that the Foundation be operated in the way he had chartered, with full emphasis on its public nature and with a view to ensuring that its wildlife-and wildland-conservation efforts benefit the public welfare.

The Norcross Wildlife Foundation, therefore, has this mission:

*	To protect, enhance and expand habitat for wildlife primarily at the Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary (known as Tupper Hill) in the form of holdings in the surrounding towns of Monson, Wales, Holland, Brimfield and Hardwick, Massachusetts and Stafford, Connecticut;
*	To protect wild land wherever it is threatened;
*	To propagate, establish, restore and maintain populations of threatened and endangered plants native to New England;
*	To provide the public with educational programs in natural and environmental science; and
*	To support, through grants, gifts, easements and loans-for-land, the activities of a national and international constituency of not-for-profit wildlife conservation organizations.