ORLEANS Pollinator Pathway Cape Cod, a regional initiative designed to increase pollinator friendly habitats across Cape Cod is set to launch this weekend, according to a release from the organization.
The initiative is a collaboration of nine Cape organizations, including the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Chatham Conservation Foundation, Garden Club of Harwich, Master Gardeners of Cape Cod, Nauset Garden Club, Orleans Conservation Trust, Orleans Improvement Association, Orleans Pond Coalition and the town of Orleans.
PPCC’s goal is to create contiguous pollinator-friendly landscapes for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinating insects and wildlife.
Two events sponsored by the PPCC will help get you started:
Less than a year ago, with little meaningful public notice, the Massachusetts Army National Guard quietly released a fast-track environmental assessment of its multi-purpose machine gun range planned for the Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve at Joint Base Cape Cod.
Since then, the base has ignored overwhelming public comments in opposition to the range. The Guard received 367 comments, 90% opposed, from the public. And in its official response to the public comments, the Guard brushed aside all objections. We now know why.
Just last week, the Joint Base Cape Cod director both summarily dismissed the commenting public as “naysayers, activists and anti-military” and threatened to order a military boycott of Cape Cod businesses if the business community did not publicly voice support for the project. This behavior reveals an underlying contempt for the public that demonstrates that the Guard’s public process was a sham. The Guard’s highly controversial finding of “No Signifi