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Pond Stories: What Do You Know About Our Freshwater Ponds’ Plants?
Did you know that Cape Cod has nearly 1,000 freshwater ponds? The Cape’s natural ponds are the result of the glaciers that left this area 18,000 years ago. Chunks of glacial ice gouged depressions into the substrate, creating “kettle ponds” that are recharged by rain...
Pond Stories: Think Like A Bee
We bought our house on a half-acre on a pond in Falmouth Center about 13 years ago. At the time, there was lots of lawn, some yew foundation plantings, and a big area of English ivy which was overgrowing some hydrangeas, rhododendrons, and an old crabapple tree – your...
Don’t Make Me Think for Myself
APCC is committed to educating Cape Codders about the implications that their yard care choices have on water quality, native species preservation, soils, habitat, and climate change. Our postings provide a lot of information that people can sort through and use to...
Pond Stories: Sheep Pond Skate
We sent our advisor Mark Robinson back into the field, this time to study water quality in Sheep Pond, one of the top five cleanest ponds in Brewster. I was glad to see some ice fishing holes on Sheep Pond on this gray day in early March. That meant I would have an...
Keep Hammering
“The act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” Madeleine Albright It’s hard to scan the news and not feel sadness of the latest display of man’s inhumanity to man unfolding in Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine. Russia’s war is...
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Recent events have served as a reminder of the importance of perseverance, vigilance, and ongoing engagement. We all share a tendency to rally behind the cause when a big issue rises to the top of the local political agenda, be it a land acquisition, a water quality...
Pond Stories: Mary Oliver’s Blackwater Pond, Provincetown
I'm not sure if this story I'm about to tell you is one of my more negative or positive learning experiences. It involves the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a rainy night on Commercial Street in Provincetown and everything you miss when you don't stay...
Eyes Open
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” - Omar Bradley, General of the Army, WW2, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1949-1953 The world feels especially...
Pond Stories: Canoeing On Long Pond, Centerville
Canoeing on Long Pond, Centerville By Steve Waller January 2022 was the first calendar month when I did not get out in my single-seat canoe since we moved to Long Pond in Centerville four years ago. The weather has been harsh and the ice often completely covering the...
Supreme Trouble
Great attention and concern followed the release of the NOAA report predicting more rapid and significant sea level rise than previously thought likely in the next 30 years. On the heels of a report as alarming as this for events that will occur in the very near term,...