HCT News

Self-Guided Night Sky Tour: December 2020

December 15, 2020

Welcome to your December Night Sky Tour! You can download your December Night Sky map – here. There are four exciting events that occur in…

Grandkids on the Go Exploring Local Trails

December 9, 2020

The Nelson family including Anne-Sophie Laloe, Zoe Laloe, Max Nelson, and Lila Nelson (grandchildren to Beth and Ted Nelson of East Harwich) embarked on quite…

Native Fruits and Nuts for Wildlife

October 1, 2020

Every year from late September into early October a diversity of plants, fungi, and animals find their unique expressions of autumn change.   After a…

Self-Guided Night Sky Tour: Sept. 21, 2020

September 21, 2020

Important: The International Space Station is only visible from 7:32 to approximately 7:42 p.m. A clear view toward the north is critical. Welcome to your…

Self-Guided Night Sky Tour: August 26, 2020

August 26, 2020

Steps for your Night Sky Tour First, to orient yourself, download the August Evening Sky Map by clicking here. You will want to have the…

Discovering Migratory Shorebirds

August 18, 2020

Story by Tyler Maikath Photos by Sarah E. Devlin Starting in late July, the breeding shorebirds of the treeless Arctic tundra begin streaming south fanning…

Tracking the Secretive Box Turtle

July 25, 2020

Story by Susanna Graham Pye Tracking turtles isn’t as easy as one might think, but HCT volunteer Michael Musnick, a passionate amateur herpetologist, is doing…

Self-Guided Summer Night Sky Tour: July 21, 2020

July 21, 2020

Self-Guided Steps for your Night Sky Tour First, to orient yourself, download the July Evening Sky Map by clicking here. You will want to have…

Summer Nesters: Cedar Waxwings & Goldfinches

July 17, 2020

In the fields we let them have- in the fields we don’t want yet- where thistles rise out of the marshlands of spring, and spring…

New Trail Open at Muddy Creek Headwaters Preserve

June 26, 2020

The walking trail is now open at HCT’s 17-acre Muddy Creek Headwaters Preserve! The new conservation destination on Church Street in East Harwich offers scenic…

Sandhill Crane Visits Harwich Port

June 19, 2020

One morning last week, Nan Poor (a Trustee of the Harwich Conservation Trust) looked out her window into her yard next to the HCT Robert…

Piping Plover Conservation

June 11, 2020

“But if I were required to name a sound the remembrance of which most perfectly revives the impression which the beach has made, it would…

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