HCT News

HCT’s campaign to save six lots near Pleasant Bay reaches goal

June 18, 2025

Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) has announced that a $450,000 fundraising campaign to acquire six buildable lots in Harwich has reached its goal. Thanks to generous…

Harwich Conservation Trust Seeks Pond Front Properties

September 19, 2024

Nestled in the woodlands south of Route 39 and west of Depot Road is the nearly 2-acre Rushy Pond. Rushy Pond lives up to its…

Donating Land in the Red River Valley

June 27, 2024

Stars Align to Connect Two Friends that Preserve Land Together Gifts of land to Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) preserve precious natural habitats for the benefit…

Wayne Coulson Gives Land for the Benefit of All

December 6, 2023

  “Buy land. They’re not making it anymore.” — Mark Twain Mark Twain had a gift for getting to the heart of a matter. If he…

River herring swim upstream by Gerry Beetham

Tuttle Family Protects Local Land, Water & River Herring

May 23, 2020

To protect windswept wetland, tall oaks, and an active herring run, Doug and Carol Tuttle donated their 7-acre Oak Island Bog to HCT this May…

Lavender Farm by Stephanie Foster

History of the Island Pond Conservation Lands

July 7, 2018

Island Pond Conservation Lands: Created Through Partnership, Patience & Persistence Story by Lee Roscoe Vision, luck, persistence, compassion, patience, flexibility, fate—just some of the elements…

East Harwich from the original George H Walker Company 1880 map

Pleasant Bay Woodlands: Unearthing the Story Beneath Our Feet

October 4, 2017

By Scott Ridley As we come to understand the history of a place, driving along a road, or walking a trail becomes a very different…

Jake and Barbara Brown by Lee Roscoe

Brown Family Donates 7.2 acres on Hinckleys Pond

October 3, 2017

Story by Lee Roscoe & Michael Lach “It’s a magic place,” says Sophie Eldredge about Sophie’s Corner. “When we were little we had a garden…

This Generation’s Caretaker

June 25, 2012

by Mary J. Metzger “We came only in the summers, as there was no heat or electricity in our camp. Long Pond Drive was just…

bird perched on tree limb

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