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Pond Stories: Banking on the Olfactory
The more I wander pond-lined paths thick with Eastern Red Cedar and pitch pine in the Outer Cape, the more I smell the rich scent of decomposing mosses and berries in the woods of the Cape, the better I understand why I've lived here most of my 51 years of life. I'm...
Better Days Ahead
APCC closed out a very busy and productive year with the release of the 3rd annual update of our State of the Waters: Cape Cod report. The findings this year continue to document declining water quality in our estuaries, ponds and in some drinking water supplies. The...
Looking Ahead
Still, at the end of every hard day People find some reason to believe Reason to Believe, Bruce Springsteen, 1982 Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will happen but I’m not going to do...
Number Two No Longer
The next five years will be the Golden Age for wastewater management on Cape Cod. As you no doubt know, President Biden recently signed a federal infrastructure funding bill into law. Of the many areas of interest to Cape Cod towns is the infusion of additional water...
Pond Stories: Don’t Take The Ponds Away From The Kids
My husband and I moved to Cape Cod several years ago to be closer to family and to raise our children with a strong connection to the natural world. We would drive past the airfield in Marstons Mills and always had a sense we would end up living somewhere nearby. We...
Cape Cod Times: 40-year-old Bottle Bill needs an update to reduce trash
We need to stop kicking the can down the road. Since its passage nearly 40 years ago, the Bottle Bill has been Massachusetts’ most successful recycling program. But time is catching up to the law, and it needs updating to deliver the best results. Full Article (free...
Pond Stories: Ripple Effects
Years ago, I had a neighbor who would literally strap himself with a plastic backpack full of herbicides and eradicate all of his "weeds." A summer person mostly, he'd taken to living here on John's Pond year-round for some reason or another. In the spring, and with...
Pond Stories: Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage on WBZ TV!
Kudos to the Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage (OLAUG) getting on WBZ TV! The OLAUG is led by Susan Baur, aka “the turtle lady.” Her love of swimming in the Cape’s ponds has inspired her to be an advocate for our ponds. To that end, she has written and illustrated...
Radioactive Water
As of last week, I was pretty sure that the proposed siting of the multi-purpose machine gun range on top of the water supply that serves the Upper Cape was the winner of the worst environmental idea award for 2021. I am no longer sure as we learned of a proposal to...
Pond Stories: Crocker Pond, Falmouth
Thanks to Milt Williamson of West Falmouth for this beautiful picture of Crocker Pond. Historic Bourne Farm is located on over 49 acres of fields, trails and woodlands that overlook Crocker Pond in West Falmouth. When we asked Milt about what he loves most about the...