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A First Step
Falmouth Town Meeting approved two transfers of town-owned land in the watershed of its drinking water reservoir to the care and custody of conservation commission. The two articles were the first supported by APCC under The Cape We Shape campaign and serve as an...
April 8, 2026
We’re back out on the ponds—and we hope to see you there!
Along with the spring peepers having migrated from the woods to the pond shores and vernal pools for breeding season, APCC’s Cape Cod Regional Pond Monitoring team has also been making its way back to the water.
April 1, 2026
As temperatures warm and the ground thaws, many of us have started to notice the first signs of life emerging from our soils. Flies, ants, bees, and other pollinators emerge from their winter homes, which could be in underground burrows, tucked within fallen leaves, or bored inside hollow stems.
Will You or Won’t You
This was written on a flight to see friends, family, and a concert (frequent readers can probably guess the show). High above the ground I find myself grateful for all the people who made systems, ones I don’t think about much and probably wouldn’t understand if I...
March 25, 2026
A variety of birds make Cape Cod their home throughout the year, inhabiting the Cape’s inland woods and ponds, coasts and shorelines.
It Matters Who Pays
Ninety percent of the Cape’s estuaries exhibit poor water quality resulting directly from excess nitrogen, mostly from septic wastewater disposal. Towns across the Cape are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on wastewater infrastructure with the goal of reducing...
March 18, 2026
Each spring across Cape Cod, thousands of river herring migrate from the ocean into freshwater streams and ponds to spawn.
It Does Matter
What you do, or don’t do, has political ramifications. The odds are that if you are reading this column you are invested in the quality of our environment and support good environmental practices. Now as much as ever, actions speak louder than words. Feeling strongly...
March 11, 2026
Cape Cod in early March can feel suspended between seasons. The light is a little softer, the air still carries winter’s chill, and the landscape hasn’t yet given itself to spring.
March 4, 2026
APCC is excited to share an update on the Sesuit Creek adaptive management project, which aims to accelerate salt marsh recovery upstream of Bridge Street in Dennis.