Her job is for the birds (and more)

Mass Audubon taps Marblehead's McCauley as region director

BY KRIS OLSON

By her own admission, Marblehead's Carole McCauley stumbled backwards into her environmental career.

A newly minted Peace Corps volunteer, McCauley was dispatched to the eastern Caribbean for what was supposed to be an assignment performing adult literacy work. But upon her arrival, she discovered that her job opportunity had fallen through.

At that point, McCauley was given a choice: Go home, or accept a hastily conceived substitute assignment with an environmental nonprofit that had a staff of one. McCauley would be employee number two.

Pressed to decide, McCauley said her mind traveled back to her days as a camper at Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm wildlife sanctuary in Lincoln.

"Literally, the credential that came to my