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APCC is partnering with Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) to better understand restoration opportunities at Pine Island salt marsh in Harwich.

This summer, APCC installed hydrological monitoring equipment to measure water level, temperature, and salinity in tidal creeks and groundwater wells around the marsh. These data will help determine whether the causeway connecting Lothrop Ave to Pine Island, along with remnant berms or clogged ditches, may be restricting tidal flow, reducing drainage, and contributing to marsh degradation and Phragmites growth.

Combined with vegetation mapping, elevation surveys, and field assessments, this work will help identify where restoration actions could improve tidal connectivity, strengthen native salt marsh habitat, and increase resilience to sea-level rise.

This initial assessment is funded by APCC through a private foundation grant and will help HCT pursue future restoration funding.

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APCC started in 1968 as concerned citizens organizing around kitchen tables to protect the Cape. Today, we're scientists, educators, policy advocates, and community organizers—staff who've built careers around this work, volunteers who show up every week, and neighbors who refuse to look away.

Now, we're organizing as Team SOS—a collective movement to protect the Cape's last remaining high-priority natural resource lands before they're gone.

The urgency is the same as it was in 1968. The stakes are higher. And we can't do it alone.

Learn more about our movement: TheCapeWeShape.org

Every decision we make shapes the future of the Cape.

The parts of the Cape we love today didn't happen by accident. The clean water, open land, wildlife, and communities that make this place special exist because people chose to protect them.

The future isn't determined yet.

We can choose to protect the remaining lands that make life here possible—so future generations can live, work, and thrive on the Cape.

Summer is in full swing here on the Cape, which means more people are experiencing the place we all love.

Hang your SOS flag high so visitors know what's at stake. The Cape is in distress, and answering its call means protecting the remaining lands that make this place special—and life here possible.

Whether here for a season or a lifetime, we all have a role to play in protecting the Cape.

Email [email protected] to get your flag and share your photo with .