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The 20 acres of this property will connect to adjacent parcels adding up to almost 50 acres of conservation land

The River Walk gets Town Meeting Approval

Voters at Spring Town Meeting approved the use of just under $1.5 million of Community Preservation Fund money to purchase nearly 20 acres of land, improve Swifts Beach Road and…

sea water right up to the cement sea wall

Community weighs in on future of North Water Street seawall and beach

Mar 18, 2025 By Ethan Hunt “We’re not proposing wholesale change, but what do we want the future to look like?” Woods Hole Project Manager Adam Finkle asked stakeholders at…

Hikers gather around an engineer orienting the group to the plans.

Through trails and trees: Community members offer land restoration input

March 2, 2025 Bobby Grady As old abandoned cranberry bogs lay tucked away, those that own them are looking to the people of Wareham to figure out how to best…

Naming the Moon

Naming the Moon

The full moon each month has always intrigued us. We have written songs and poems about it, pondered its composition (green cheese), studied its effects on us (moon tides) and…

Riverwalk

River Walk Acquisition

A message from the owners I wanted to share some thoughts and history about the land we hope the Wareham Land Trust will one day protect. This parcel—hopefully to be…

Women Is Laughing

Greetings From WLT’s New Executive Director

Posted September 30, 2024 I’m thrilled to introduce myself as the new Executive Director of the Wareham Land Trust! With seven years at The 300 Committee Land Trust in Falmouth…

Bright orange fungi growing on a fallen tree trunk covered in green lichen in a forest setting.

The Work of Miriam C. Rice

Posted September 30, 2024 Endlessly fascinating, endearing, and delightful, mushrooms are currently enjoying a popular resurgence. They appear on home goods, clothing, accessories — anything you can imagine can display…

Osprey flying with fish in its talons.

Supper With The Ospreys

  Posted August 29, 2024 This is a true story that happened a few years ago. We have a cottage in Onset that has been in the family for four…

Road between forest

A Stroll Down Marks Cove Vista’s (Wheelchair-Accessible) Nature Trail

Posted July 31, 2024 We are excited to announce the opening of a new nature trail at Marks Cove Vista, the Wareham Land Trust’s latest acquisition. Spanning nearly the entire…

Shark in the sea

Great White Sharks Of Cape Cod

Posted June 30, 2024    Once a rare sight in Cape Cod, great white sharks have started to return in record numbers each summer to the Cape Cod National Seashore,…

Turtle at the side of the sea

Diamondback Terrapins Are Nesting!

Posted May 30, 2024             Who’s nesting? Where? When?  Why did the terrapin cross the road? Do they need any help? Let me explain… Diamondback terrapins…

Team of WLT is working in the forest

June Trail Days

The Wareham Land Trust is happy to announce our June trail workdays as part of our bimonthly Trail Day initiative! Please bring your own work gloves, we will provide tools…