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Town of Truro: Private Organizations

National Environmental Education Development (NEED)
Truro Conservation Trust (The)

PHONE: (508) 349-3475

FAX: (508) 349-3475

E-MAIL: moodye@dy-regional.k12.ma.us

WWW: Not available.

CONTACT: Eleanor Moody, Director

HOURS: By appointment; Closed mid-June to mid-September.

The goals of the collaborative are to increase awareness and understanding of natural and human environments on Cape Cod and to provide an opportunity for students and teachers to experience a different learning format away from home. Provides residential environmental education program mainly for fifth grade students. Classes held on beaches, dunes, woods, swamps and ponds.

PUBLICATIONS: No publications

OTHER INFORMATION: Program costs $5,500/5 days (25 students max.). Includes food, room, program transportation, and services of 4 teacher/naturalists. Building is sometimes available for weekend rental groups: $1,000 (Friday, 5:00 p.m. - Sunday, 5:00 p.m.), sometimes less for small groups.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: Classes at NEED include marine and pond life, salt marshes, cranberry bogs, white cedar swamp, birds, whales, Cape Cod geology, Cape Cod human history, cooperative activities, night programs.

KEYWORDS: Biology, Birds, Coastal Ponds, Educational Services For Children, Energy, Erosion, Marine Mammals, Natural History, Truro, Water Pollution, Water Resources, Wildlife, Salt Marshes

PHONE: (508) 487-1190

FAX: (508) 487-4174

E-MAIL: fredgaechter@aol.com

WWW: http://www.truroconservationtrust.org/

CONTACT: Fred Gaechter, Vice President/Treasurer

HOURS: No office hours.

A private nonprofit land trust accepting land donations and gifts to preserve open space land in the Town of Truro. The Trust owns and maintains 310 acres of conservation land. It currently protects about 1/3 of the wetlands within the Pamet River System. The Trust has received donations from over 750 persons and organizations. It receives annual support from 250-300 donations. The annual budget is approximately $20,000. A founding member of The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts, Inc.

PUBLICATIONS: Descriptive brochure. Periodic newsletters.

FEES: Annual membership, but no minimum required contribution.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: The Trust holds 310 acres of land divided about equally between buildable upland and unbuildable wetlands. It has been involved in several successful fundraising projects to purchase land, and, during 2005-2006, completed a $500,000 campaign to purchase (along with the Town of Truro) a 4-acre coastal heathland.

KEYWORDS: Conservation, Land Conservation, Land Trusts, Natural Habitats, Truro, Wetlands