What I’m Thinking

Dr. Jo Ann Muramoto begins her much deserved retirement on July 1. Jo Ann has guided and overseen science at APCC since 2006. Throughout that period, APCC expanded on our reputation for basing advocacy on sound science. Dr. Muramoto has been an essential contributor...

If you listen to the news at all, the message has been impossible to ignore: The summer heat has arrived on the eastern seaboard. But as is often the case with the “if it bleeds, it leads” approach to news these days, the headline misses the point. Sure, it’s going to...

Ever so slowly, but inexorably, the momentum is turning towards a smarter handling of the proposed multipurpose machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod. Policy makers at the state and federal levels are beginning to coalesce around a policy outcome that demonstrates...

Sometimes the system, even the U.S. Congress, functions as it was designed to. By now you probably know that an amendment sponsored by Congressman Keating resulted in the full House Armed Services Committee extending the funding for the multipurpose machine gun range...

This week marks the beginning of APCC’s cyano bacteria sampling season. APCC will again be sampling ponds in all 15 towns and posting results on our website map and notifying people who have signed up for our email alerts about blooms of concern. The cyano program is...

Spring is a funny time here on Cape Cod. In many respects, it is a long tease. The days get longer, the peepers begin to sound, migratory birds are on the wing, the sun becomes more intense, but the cool ocean winds keep the season from taking full effect until much...

There is a very real possibility that the multipurpose machine gun range (MPMGR) will proceed, regardless of the EPA finding that it will contaminate the Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve. That is the inescapable conclusion that we have come to after reviewing documents...

Last week, APCC broke the news that the National Guard has modified its proposed multipurpose machine gun range (MPMGR). I heard from a lot of people asking what they can do to help protect the Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve. It is our practice to only ask our...

Over the course of the last few days, I have had the pleasure of seeing two pairs of bald eagles, one set mature and the other juveniles patrolling a nearby pond. The beauty and majesty of these birds, along with the other raptors who grace our skies, serve as a...

Every year around this time they arrive. It is a spring ritual and a harbinger of the summer ahead. Perhaps you might think I am referring to the annual return of river herring or osprey. I could have hummingbirds in mind or even striped bass. Nope, not this time. I...