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Hills, South Truro, 1930, by Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
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Started in Spring 2008, this blog is about land conservation and open space preservation on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard. You'll find posts about land acquisitions, conservation trusts, open space plans, wildlife sanctuaries, public parks, town meetings, educational programs, museum exhibits, books, walks & hikes, grants, legislation, and the Community Preservation Act.
1990 Cape Cod Land Cover Map ©The Woods Hole Research Center
Blog Archive
Notable Properties
- Cape Cod National Seashore
- Cape Cod Rail Trail (Dennis to Wellfleet)
- Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary (Martha’s Vineyard)
- Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary (Barnstable)
- Manuel F. Correllus State Forest (Martha's Vineyard)
- Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge
- Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge (Chatham)
- Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge
- Nickerson State Park (Brewster)
- Nomans Land Island National Wildlife Refuge
- Scusset Beach State Reservation (Sandwich)
- Sesachacha Heathlands Wildlife Sanctuary (Nantucket)
- Shawme-Crowell State Forest (Sandwich)
- South Cape Beach State Park (Mashpee)
- Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Falmouth)
- Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (Wellfleet)
Local Nonprofit Organizations & Private Foundations
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod
- Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts
- Barnstable Land Trust
- Bourne Conservation Trust
- Brewster Conservation Trust
- Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
- Chatham Conservation Foundation
- Coalition for Buzzards Bay
- Dennis Conservation Trust
- Eastham Citizens for Responsible Coastal Development
- Eastham Conservation Foundation
- Falmouth Associations Concerned about Estuaries & Salt Ponds
- Friends of Arey's Pond (Orleans)
- Friends of Chatham Waterways
- Friends of Pleasant Bay (Chatham)
- Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore
- Harwich Conservation Trust
- Linda Loring Nature Foundation (Nantucket)
- Marsh Hawk Land Trust (Martha's Vineyard)
- Mary Barton Land Trust (Barnstable)
- Meetinghouse Farm (Barnstable)
- Nantucket Beach Foundation
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation
- Nantucket Land Council
- North Star Land Foundation (Martha's Vineyard)
- Orenda Wildlife Land Trust (West Barnstable)
- Orleans Conservation Trust
- Orleans Pond Coalition
- Oyster Pond Environmental Trust (Falmouth)
- Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies
- Provincetown Conservation Trust
- Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust (Falmouth)
- Sandwich Conservation Trust
- 'Sconset Trust (Nantucket)
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation (Martha's Vineyard)
- Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund (Nantucket)
- The 300 Committee (Falmouth)
- Three Bays Preservation (Barnstable)
- Truro Conservation Trust
- Tuckernuck Land Trust (Nantucket)
- Vineyard Conservation Society (Martha's Vineyard)
- Vineyard Open Land Foundation (Martha's Vineyard)
- Wellfleet Conservation Trust
- Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts
- Woods Hole Research Center (Falmouth)
- Yarmouth Conservation Trust
Statewide Nonprofit Organizations
- Coalition for the Environmental Bond
- Community Preservation Coalition
- Conservation Common (Putnam Conservation Institute)
- Environmental League of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions
- Massachusetts Audubon Society
- Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition
- The Trustees of Reservations
National Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit Funders
- Associated Grant Makers
- Agua Fund
- Barr Foundation
- Boston Foundation
- Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust
- Cape Cod Foundation
- Charles H. Thomsen Land Fund for Cape Cod
- Chichester duPont Foundation
- Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation
- Environmental Grantmakers Association
- Fields Pond Foundation
- Garfield Foundation
- GE Foundation
- J. C. Kellogg Foundation
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Kelley Foundation
- KeySpan Foundation
- Massachusetts Environmental Trust
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- New England Grassroots Environment Fund
- Norcross Wildlife Foundation
- Orchard Foundation
- Roy A. Hunt Foundation
- Sheehan Family Foundation
- Sweet Water Trust
- William P. Wharton Trust
Philanthropy
Local Public Entities
- Barnstable County
- Town of Barnstable
- Town of Bourne
- Town of Brewster
- Town of Chatham
- Town of Dennis
- Town of Eastham
- Town of Falmouth
- Town of Harwich
- Town of Mashpee
- Town of Orleans
- Town of Provincetown
- Town of Sandwich
- Town of Truro
- Town of Wellfleet
- Town of Yarmouth
- Pleasant Bay Alliance
- Dukes County
- Town of Aquinnah
- Town of Chilmark
- Town of Edgartown
- Town of Gosnold
- Town of Oak Bluffs
- Town of Tisbury
- Town of West Tisbury
- Martha's Vineyard Land Bank
- Town and County of Nantucket
- Nantucket Islands Land Bank
- Cape Cod Commission
- Cape Cod Conservation District
- Cape Cod Land Bank
State and Federal Public Entities
Public Funding
Public Records
Maps
- Cape Cod National Seashore
- Mass EEA Community Preservation Act (2008)
- Mass EEA Open Space & Recreation Plans (2008)
- Mass EEA Permanently Protected Open Space (2008)
- MassGIS Color Ortho Imagery (2005)
- MassGIS DCR Areas of Critical Environmental Concern
- MassGIS DEP Priority Resource
- MassGIS DEP Wetlands
- MassGIS NHESP BioMap
- MassGIS NHESP 2006 Priority and Estimated Habitats
- MassGIS Open Space
- MassGIS Parcel Boundaries
- MassGIS Water Supply Protection Areas
- USGS Topographic Maps
- USGS Historic Maps
- WHRC Land Cover Change 1951/1999
Literary Canon
- Cape Cod, by Henry David Thoreau (1865)
- The Outermost House: a Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod, by Henry Beston (1928)
- The House on Nauset Marsh: a Cape Cod Memoir, by Wyman Richardson (1947)
- The Great Beach, by John Hay (1963)
- Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island, by Dorothy Sterling (1967)
- A Guide to Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands, edited by Greg O'Brien (1990)
- Common Ground: a Naturalist's Cape Cod, by Robert Finch (1994)
- Walking the Shores of Cape Cod, by Elliott Carr (1994)
- Return of the Osprey: a Season of Flight and Wonder, by David Gessner (2001)
- Short Nature Walks on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and the Vineyard, by Hugh Sadlier (7th edition, 2001)
Labels
- 990's (2)
- Art and Photography (3)
- Awards (6)
- Barnstable (29)
- Books (20)
- Bourne (18)
- Brewster (24)
- Calendar (2)
- Chatham (12)
- Dennis (13)
- Eastham (13)
- Exhibits (7)
- Falmouth (22)
- Funding (64)
- Harwich (19)
- Jobs Internships Volunteers (11)
- Land Acquisitions (42)
- Land Catalogs (4)
- Land Improvements and Restorations (65)
- Legislation (16)
- Martha's Vineyard (25)
- Mashpee (12)
- Meetings (42)
- Merchandise (1)
- Nantucket (24)
- National Seashore (9)
- Newsletters (13)
- Orleans (10)
- Podcasts (6)
- Polls (2)
- Provincetown (11)
- Quotes (4)
- Reports (24)
- Sandwich (11)
- Thoreau (3)
- Truro (11)
- Walks Hikes Rides Runs (18)
- Wellfleet (18)
- Yarmouth (13)
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