Caption A mosquito ditch draining a small pond in a Cape Cod salt marsh, at a healthy site in 2010. This ditch was constructed in the 1930s and has not widened since its construction, but has been ...

woodlands and salt marshes. From Nobska Light in Woods Hole to Race Point Light in Provincetown, there are 14 lighthouses to visit on Cape Cod. Each is a bit different but all are picturesque and ...

Salt marshes are grasslands flooded daily by the sea. Imagine a Midwest prairie as oceanfront property. South of Cape Cod, decades of research has shown that when fiddler crabs are present ...

With more than 7,600 acres of protected dunes, salt and freshwater marshes and a decommissioned lighthouse, the gorgeous Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge will make you feel like a trailblazer.

On the edge of Cape Cod Bay, the town of Wellfleet offers multiple options for visiting birders, with the coastal Great Island Trail offering pitch-pine forests and pockets of salt marsh ...