BARNSTABLE TOWN NOTES (10/19/18)
The Barnstable Patriot Posted Oct 19, 2018 at 12:18 PM Updated Oct 19, 2018 at 12:28 PM BARNSTABLE TOWN NOTES MA Nature Conservancy, Barnstable win funding The Nature Conservancy’s Massachusetts chapter has been awarded funding from NatureVest’s 2018 Conservation Investment Accelerator Competition promoting environmental sustainability. NatureVest is the conservation investing unit of The Nature Conservancy. Applications were received from 26 countries and covered sectors as […]
Brew, oysters take center stage at Cape Cod Beer’s fest (10/17/18)
Cape Cod Times By Barbara Clark / Contributing writer Posted Oct 17, 2018 at 3:00 AM Updated Oct 17, 2018 at 4:31 PM Brew, oysters take center stage at Cape Cod Beer’s fest [Photo Credit: Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times] The oysters are coming to Hyannis on Saturday, and the beer crafted with oysters from all over the Cape will be there as well. Cape […]
Barnstable moves ahead with Cotuit Cut dredging (9/13/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Sep 13, 2018 at 8:30 AM Barnstable moves ahead with Cotuit Cut dredging [Photo By: Bronwen Howells Walsh] On Sept. 6, Barnstable Town Council unanimously approved a $1 million capital appropriation to fund dredging Cotuit Bay Entrance Channel. Barnstable Town Manager Mark Ells announced that the town was also awarded […]
50,000 oysters to grow in Hyannis tank (7/31/18)
The Barnstable Patriot Posted Jul 31, 2018 at 1:28 PM Updated Aug 1, 2018 at 10:02 AM 50,000 oysters to grow in Hyannis tank The Massachusetts Oyster Project and Barnstable Clean Water Coalition (BCWC) have partnered on a project to raise 50,000 oysters in a tank located at Gateway Marina in Hyannis. Water from Hyannis Harbor will be pumped into a tank (known as an […]
Watershed Update Presents Problems While Offering Hope (7/6/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Marina Davalos Jul 6, 2018 Watershed update presents problems while offering hope [Photo Credit: BCWC] [Photo Credit: Board Member of BCWC] [Photo Credit: BCWC] On June 29 Osterville native Zenas “Zee” Crocker told an audience of about 175 of […]
River Herring are Running in Local Rivers (4/20/18)
NOAA Fisheries Apr 20, 2018 River Herring are Running in Local Rivers River herring gets over a fish ladder at Mill Pond in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod. It’s that time of year. River herring are returning to local rivers and streams to spawn. For Northeast Fisheries Science Center researcher Ruth Haas-Castro, counts began April 1 […]
Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters (2/8/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Feb 8, 2018 at 10:15 AM Updated Feb 14, 2018 at 1:21 PM Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters [Photo Credit: BCWC] Part two in a three-part series. The Barnstable Clean Water Coalition is taking proven nitrogen mitigation technologies out of the lab and into Marstons Mills Watershed. “By implementing several technologies […]
New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed (1/25/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Jan 25, 2018 at 10:11 AM Updated Jan 25, 2018 at 10:11 AM New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed [Photo Credit: BCWC] Part one in a three-part series. University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Jack Ahern and 10 graduate students — with financial support from the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition — have published a […]
Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced (10/25/17)
Cape Cod Times By Thomas K. Burgess Oct 25, 2017 Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced The expertise of the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition and the Massachusetts Audubon Society is being called into question by a very small group of beachgoers who object to the removal of 400 feet of the western point of Sampsons Island. Their arguments […]
Restoring a mill pond (10/8/17)
Cape Cod Times October 8, 2017 Restoring a Mill Pond Zenas Crocker, executive director of the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition, says it’s time to shout “hair on fire” about the degrading quality of the Cape’s water resources — from its groundwater to fresh water ponds and salty estuaries. Formerly Three Bays Preservation Inc., the Barnstable […]