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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…

The 10th annual Tour de Trash is scheduled for Saturday, April 26th from 10 a.m. – noon, beginning at the Harwich Community Center.  Gather your friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors to help clean up Harwich during Tour de Trash! This event is a joint effort between the Town Conservation Department and Harwich Conservation Trust, with…

   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…

The otter paparazzi have caught up with the furry celebrities at the newly-restored Robert F. Smith Cold Brook Preserve in Harwich Port. A stellar snapshot of the fish-eating favorites will grace the cover of this year’s Harwich Magazine, a popular publication from the Harwich Chamber of Commerce that is set to debut in April. These…

AMHERST, Massachusetts – The Harwich Conservation Trust was honored with the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition’s inaugural Excellence in Conservation Award at the 2025 Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference, held on March 21st at UMass Amherst.  An audience of 600 was on hand for the presentation, which was followed by a keynote address by Congressman Jim McGovern. This award is in recognition…

Get in the mood for the brood. The cicadas are coming! This news flash from the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension sets the stage: “This year, parts of Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts will experience a once-in-a-generation event—the emergence of Brood XIV periodical cicadas! The last time they showed up was 2008, and now, after 17…