Eco-Restoration at Hinckleys Pond at the Headwaters of the Herring River Winter Talk
Eco-Restoration at Hinckleys Pond at the Headwaters of the Herring River Winter Talk
Date: February 1, 2025Time: 1-2 p.m.
Meeting Place: Harwich Community Center
Leader: Nick Nelson
Price: FREE
Attendee Limit: 112
In 2020, Fred and Barbara Jenkins wanted to sell their 31-acre retired bog property to Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) instead of converting the upland into a subdivision. Thanks to generous HCT donors, the Jenkins’ land bordering the Cape Cod Rail Trail was preserved. Since then, HCT in partnership with the Brown family who owns a retired bog on the other side of the pond, completed the eco-restoration design and permitting process led by Inter-Fluve, which expertly led a similar process at HCT’s Robert F. Smith Cold Brook Preserve on Bank Street. Recently, the Association to Preserve Cape Cod joined the team by securing a federal grant that will fund eco-restoration construction.
Why is eco-restoration important? How many wetland acres will be rewilded? What will the trails look like? What happens during the eco-restoration construction phase? Learn the answers and ask more questions during this presentation led by Nick Nelson, who grew up in Harwich and is a fluvial geomorphologist with Inter-Fluve.
Aerial photo courtesy of Gerry Beetham
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