Ellen Mass is president of the Friends of Alewife Reservation Inc. (FAR), a ten-year stewardship and conservation group at Alewife. FAR performs community action and citizen science, teaching forums on the effects of climate change on the floodplain. FAR also offers clean-ups, tours, summer Ecology Camps, and advocates on behalf of the Alewife wetlands and the wild space of the Department of Conservation and Recreation parkland. FAR has published a booklet of Alewife wildlife.