Habitat Restoration Guide for the Outer Cape

HABITAT RESTORATION GUIDE

Click on the above link to download your own free copy of this booklet.

Habitat Restoration Guide for Planting Vegetation on the Outer Cape

Safe Harbor Environmental Services, 2012

Safe Harbor’s Restoration Guide for the Outer Cape links native vegetation with specific habitats, exposures and height. Using site-specific vegetation for [...]

Hurricanes and Coastal Vegetation

SALT SPRAY VEGETATION Click on this link to get your copy of an interesting new booklet.

This booklet documents the direction we need to move in when choosing native plantings for coastal habitats. Photographs were taken at direct onshore sites (0-60′ from surf line) and indirect, onshore sites (800′ from surf line), following extended, [...]

Community Restoration Partnership

Ballston Beach Barrier Dune Restoration, Truro, Cape Cod

A unique Community Restoration Partnership has been created in Truro on Cape Cod: Truro Beach Commission; Truro Department of Public Works; National Parks Service, Cape Cod National Seashore; Truro Conservation Commission;Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore; Truro Non Resident Taxpayers Association and Safe Harbor Environmental.

If you are willing to make a small donation for beach grass plugs, to support sustainable restoration of this resource area, your tax deductable donation should be made out to FCCNS with Ballston in the memo line.  They should be sent to FCCNS at PO Box 550, Wellfleet, MA  02667. Bundles of 300 stems cost $39.00. Any size donation contributes to this project.

If you are interested in volunteering to plant beach grass plugs or assist in setting up sand collection fence, please email goronpeabody@gmail.com

The following is the first article that I have written about this project. There were a lot of components that were brought together for this restoration. It has been published in a Cape Cod magazine this summer. Click on the link below to read it.

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Cape Cod Invasive Vegetation booklet now available

DIRTY-DOZEN-Invasive-Plants

Click on this pdf publication to get your own copy of the “Dirty Dozen”.

It describes the identity, ecology and various management techniques for taking on invasive vegetation.

These are 13 plants that we have tagged as “the bad guys”. Invasive vegetation behaves aggressively, claiming native plant space, nutrients, light and moisture as [...]

Environmental Education Programs Available

Our Educational Initiative page now includes nearly 30 different environmental programs we are offering for the 2009-2010 season.  These are free to groups of six or more: students; faculty; local groups; Town boards or employees and professionals. Thank you to Vida, our fall intern, for coordinating this effort. Vida shares our core value for [...]

Ryder Beach Partnership restores town landing

Ryder Beach Partnership restores town landing.

The Town of Truro on Cape Cod has experienced tremendous wind erosion during the past few years at one of their coastal beach access points, known as “town landings”. Winter winds created a “shotgun blow out” that eroded 14 feet of sand from the beach end of [...]