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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 [...]
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, [...]
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.
OCEAN 18
Click on this link to have your easy to read copy. This 18th edition of our e-newsletter represents our commitment to environmental education. We have included brief summaries of some unprecedented world scale weather events and a few of the consequences. This 18th edition also includes links for more information. We have [...]
In the spring of 2010, Cape Cod experienced such record levels of ground water, that areas which would normally be dry became flooded as the underground water table rose up in low areas, such as this location between sand dunes. With climate change producing extra precipitation in New England, we have published this booklet [...]
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 [...]
OCEAN_17 go to this link to check out our latest issue, including Gulf Oil Leak interactions and possible correlations between more intense storms, maple syrup problems and increased ground water with climate change.
OCEAN_15 click here to read our newest, environmental newsletter. Contact us if you want to learn more about any of the articles.
Here is a previous issue of  OCEAN. Our goals with OCEAN are to share information on environmental issues and support collaborative partnerships to protect natural resources. Collaborative partnerships save both financial and natural resources. Safe Harbor supports collective action. To sign up to receive OCEAN, please email gordonesafeharbor@yahoo.com.
Ocean 14, is now 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 [...]
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