Experiencing winter at its finest, 50 people participated across eight guided sessions after the area received a good amount of snowfall.
Now is the time to write to the governor to support the "rail-to-trail" pathway, removing the remains of the Bourne/Falmouth line and placing a path in its stead.
Once a year, the New Bedford Harbor shipping channel closes so that hundreds of swimmers can cross the harbor in this one-of-a-kind scenic point-to-point open water swim. Registration has opened for the 33rd annual Buzzards Bay Swim, which will take place on Saturday, June 20, beginning at Cisco Brewers Kitchen and Bar in New Bedford, go across New Bedford Harbor, and finish at Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven.
New Bedford Conservation Agent Chance Perks explains in a video what water protection improvements are happening at the Buttonwood Park Zoo.
A national program that recognizes land conservation organizations has renewed the Buzzards Bay Coalition’s accreditation.
The Buzzards Bay Coalition’s long-time director of land protection, Allen Decker, has retired after more than two decades with the organization. We look back on what drove him to do the work and the legacy he has left here.
Last month, the Buzzards Bay Coalition purchased a 650+-acre corridor of land surrounding the Agawam River, an 11-mile waterway that flows from Plymouth’s Halfway Pond through cranberry bogs and forests, joining the Wankinco River to form the Wareham River and empty into Buzzards Bay.
“It makes you feel alive!” This is Grace Pietsch’s immediate response when you ask why she does cold water immersions in Onset Bay three days a week through early April.
Runnels were used successfully at two Buzzards Bay sites—Ocean View and Little Bay—to restore important salt marsh habitat by restoring tidal flow while not “dramatically affecting sediment characteristics or rates of carbon decomposition.”