Tuesday, March 4th, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Snowy Owl Search (SOS) There has been a surge of snowy owls lately on local Cape beaches. Join Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) on a free, guided walk to try and catch a glimpse of these stunning owls before they head north. Bring binoculars if you have them. HCT […] Read more »

 by William Galvin, The Cape Cod Chronicle            The Friends of Pleasant Bay made a major contribution to the Harwich Conservation Trust’s initiative to raise $3.6 million to preserve 49 acres of land poised for development just west of the bay.             To buy the land, HCT has an August 2014 deadline to raise $1.8 […] Read more »

The Platinum Pebble Boutique Inn held a fund-raiser run on Thanksgiving morning to support the Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT). Inn guests, friends and locals were invited to participate in the inaugural “Platinum Pebble Dash,” a 5m/5km run/walk in Harwich.  “The 15 participants donated an entry fee thereby enabling $250 to be raised for this worthy local non-profit […] Read more »

Sponsored by HCT, native Cape Codder Todd Kelley led a Wildlife Tracking Workshop in late October teaching 18 participants how to interpret animal movements through the tracks they left behind in the Bell’s Neck Conservation Lands. For those that have taken this course before, Todd also offered new intermediate level tracking techniques. The group searched for clues left by […] Read more »

More than 25 citizen volunteers recently cleaned the Harwich harbor coastline and local beaches. The Coastsweep event was coordinated by the Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) with strong support from the Town of Harwich Natural Resources Department and Highway Department.  More than 200 pounds of trash were collected, including 601 cigarette butts, 225 food wrappers, 36 […] Read more »

During HCT’s Wildlands Musical Stroll, more than 300 visitors enjoyed live acoustic folk, classical and jazz music played by musicians on piano, guitar, accordion, bass, ukulele, percussion, even a wearable washboard, and other instruments as artists from the Guild of Harwich Artists painted the landscape in celebration of HCT’s 25th Anniversary while walking the trails […] Read more »

In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT), HCT has planned a “Wildlands Musical Stroll” on Saturday, September 14th from 1-4pm. Inspired by the “Piano in the Woods,” the mysterious piano that was discovered on Harwich conservation land in 2009 which oddly led to worldwide news coverage, the Wildlands Musical Stroll […] Read more »

To protect land, water and wildlife, two landowners (Sharon Eberhardt & anonymous) donated three forested properties along South Street and Forest Street to HCT.  Meanwhile, another donor (Pete Peterson) gifted a building lot to preserve wildlife habitat and roadside scenery in the neighborhood.  Depending on the land preserved, donors can benefit from federal income tax incentives and/or the state’s new […] Read more »

HCT celebrated its 25th Anniversary & Annual Meeting on Monday, August 5th thanks to generous hosting by the Wequassett Resort overlooking Pleasant Bay.  HCT cohosted the evening with The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts.  HCT President & Founding Trustee Robert Smith was honored with the Ansel B. Chaplin Award for Excellence in Preserving Open Space.  […] Read more »

The Pleasant Bay Woodlands Project: A Legacy Landscape The nonprofit Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) currently has an extraordinary one-time opportunity to purchase 49 acres in East Harwich on Cape Cod if it can raise $3.6 million by August 31, 2014. “We’ve been negotiating this purchase for 10 years. If we raise the funds, we can […] Read more »