Critical Habitat and Natural Landscape Protection
From white cedar swamps to heathland to pine barrens, Cape Cod is blessed with a great diversity of unique and important habitats. APCC is unwavering in our commitment to safeguard the Cape’s critical habitats from adverse impacts and advocate for strengthened protections of our natural areas.
APCC addresses habitat protection in a number of ways, including advocating for increased funding of the state’s land conservation programs, or spearheading the successful efforts that led to adoption of the Cape Cod Land Bank legislation and preservation of the northern 15,000 acres of the Massachusetts Military Reservation. APCC builds grassroots support for local open space preservation initiatives, maintains vigilance against development that may encroach on sensitive habitat areas, and pushes for improved local bylaws and regional and state regulatory policies that discourage sprawl. And through special projects and initiatives, such as APCC’s Critical Habitats Atlas of Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Priorities Parcels inventory of undeveloped and underdeveloped land, APCC encourages resource protection and promotes proper stewardship of our land and water resources.