From the Falmouth Enterprise · September 4, 2024 · By Tao Woolfe
The Association to Preserve Cape Cod received a record $15 million from NOAA’s habitat restoration program to carry five Cape Cod projects through to completion over four years. Two are in the Waquoit Bay watershed: restoring Red Brook and its retired cranberry bogs on the Mashpee-Falmouth line, and the upper Quashnet River in Mashpee. The grant also covers salt marsh restoration at Oyster Pond in West Falmouth and work in Harwich and Dennis, alongside a federal fish-passage project at the Johns Pond structure on the Quashnet.
Partners include the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Waquoit Bay Reserve, which will help run a community visioning process for the Red Brook and Quashnet plans and provide training for restoration workers. Across all five sites, the goal is to restore about 220 acres of wetland, 181 acres of pond habitat and 2.2 miles of river and shoreline.
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