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More than 185 people attended the 2025 State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference (23rd Annual) on November 1, 2025 at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. Many thanks to everyone who was able to attend and to the many others who expressed interest and support. Watch all or...

Attention all returning and new volunteer Herring Counters for Herring River, Wellfleet. Everyone, regardless of whether a volunteer or not, is welcome to attend an informative and fun workshop to prepare for the annual herring run. Save the date for the workshop:...

The Wellfleet First Day Walk was titled The Gut to the Herring River Overlook. The Wellfleet Conservation Trust and the Friends of the Herring River sponsored it. Thirty walkers from six different Cape towns participated in the 2-hour 2, 2-mile walk. It started at the...

In late November 2024, the U.S. Department of the Interior published its Three Years of Progress report on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). The implementation of BIL includes a total investment of $28.1 for nation-wide infrastructure and environmental...

Thanks to a generous volunteer and equipment from Lower Cape TV, we are able to share a recording from the Wellfleet Harbor Conference, held on November 2nd at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. The conference was attended by 130 people and featured presentations...

This year the volunteer Wellfleet herring counters included even more enthusiastic people than last year, gratefully coordinated, again, by Barbara Brennessel, with Friends of Herring River's (FHR) Science Advisory Group and Wellfleet Conservation Commission. This...

On Sunday, November 3rd, Barbara Brennessel led a group on a walk around Gull Pond, where they observed several schools of Herring fry making their way between Gull and Higgins Ponds. Along the way, the group was fortunate to run into Wellfleet Herring Warden Dr....