Posts by mike

The red-backed salamander might have been the star of the day, but there were lots of highlights at a recent Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) Ecosystem Explorers program guided by naturalist Andrea Higgins. “We’re going to go on an adventure,” Higgins told an enthusiastic group of five to 10-year-old explorers, and suddenly we were off on…

It may look a little rough out there, but an exciting transformation is underway at the Harwich Conservation Trust’s (HCT) Hinckleys Pond – Herring River Headwaters Eco-Restoration Project in Harwich. Excavators have completed much of the microtopography work on the former cranberry bog areas near Route 124. This process roughens the surface to create a…

Due to the rain forecasted for tomorrow, the scheduled route clean-ups for Tour de Trash have been canceled. However, we’ll still have a planting activity, seeds, seedlings, and treats to share in the lobby of the Harwich Community Center tomorrow from 10 a.m. – noon. Please stop by and say hello! Still interested in cleaning…

Spring on Cape Cod can be a cold, clammy affair, but we do have one thing going for us: herring! As the weather and water begins to warm up, a great fish parade starts at herring runs around Cape Cod. River herring make the perilous passage up rivers and streams to return to their place of…

If you’ve driven along Route 124 near the Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich, you’ve probably noticed a lot of hubbub going on across the street. Hungry excavators have been at work for nearly a month at the Harwich Conservation Trust’s (HCT) Hinckleys Pond – Herring River Headwaters Eco-Restoration Project. The carefully-calibrated chomping is designed to…

The awards keep rolling in for the Harwich Conservation Trust’s (HCT) ambitious eco-restoration project at the Robert F. Smith Cold Brook Preserve. This time around, it’s a testament to a kid from Harwich who returned to his hometown and used his expertise to help create an environmental triumph. On April 7, HCT’s Cold Brook Eco-Restoration Project…

A cold Cape Cod wind was the unwelcome guest star at our recent site visit to the Hinckleys Pond – Herring River Headwaters Eco-Restoration Project. But good spirits were restored as we looked at the significant progress that had been made in just a matter of days. Sometimes, understanding the complexities of eco-restoration can be…

   What a hootenanny! The Meet Your Local Farmers event on March 29 was a rollicking good time for attendees and a big win for local agriculture. More than 1,700 people attended the event, which featured over 40 farmers from all around Cape Cod. The happy crowd scooped up local produce, fish, meat and…

The Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) has launched an ambitious $720 billion fundraising campaign to preserve the world’s largest island. The Green Space for Greenland Project will guarantee the sovereignty of the off-Cape territory, while creating a vast network of walking trails, vista observation areas and shag-carpeted warming huts. Preliminary plans call for the construction of a…

On a typically chilly early spring morning in Harwich, a good-natured group from the Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT), SumCo Eco-Contracting and Inter-Fluve, an ecological engineering firm, gathered around a folding table in an unheated barn. There was excitement in the air: the Hinckleys Pond – Herring River Headwaters Eco-Restoration Project was underway! One thing became instantly…