Preserving the Island for Everyone

Preserving Nantucket’s character by permanently conserving, maintaining, and
managing natural areas and habitats.

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Winter Botany: The Island’s Wintergreens

By Kelly A. Omand | January 6, 2022

Nantucket is fortunate to have several species of native wintergreens that retain their foliage through the winter. They are actually easiest to learn to identify during the colder months when...

Christmas Bird Count Small With NCFUMass 2021

Join The Nantucket Christmas Bird Count!

By Libby Buck | December 14, 2021

Christmas Bird Count (CBC), one of the longest running citizen science projects in the world, is organized by the National Audubon Society. It was originally started in 1900’s by ornithologist...

Oyster Castles Fighting Climate Change on Nantucket Island

By Jen Karberg | November 16, 2021

By Dr. Jen Karberg, Research Program Supervisor This November, Nantucket Conservation Foundation, in collaboration with the Town of Nantucket Natural Resource Department, completed the final step in a 2 year...

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Watch the latest In the Field with Neil!

Neil starts off the year by hopping in a tractor with Richard Mack to showcase the hard work of our Land Management Department. By controlling the height of certain shrub species and allowing the rare and diverse assemblage of grassland and heathland species to flourish!

Read more about the reasoning and funding for this work by reading Karen Beatties blog through the Fecon Habitat Management link in our bio

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For all the readers out there, both on island and at large!

Join Remain Nantucket, Nantucket Conservation Foundation, and Nantucket Book Clubs as they read and discuss The Story of More: How We Got To Climate Change and Where To Go From Here. These nonprofits bought 25 copies to hand out free at Mitchells Book Corner first come first serve for those on Nantucket. You can purchase copies here to join the club through the link in our bio. Save 10% with code ACKBOOKCLUB at checkout.

The event discussion will be held at the Remain Offices at 58 Main Street Second Floor on Tuesday, March 15 at 4PM. For those not on island a zoom link can be emailed

Nantucket Book Clubs is a new project created by Nantucket Book Partners (Mitchell’s and Bookworks) to connect and collaborate with the Nantucket community. We reached out to nonprofits, businesses, and community members to pick books to read and discuss together in 2022 according to their mission and interests. We hope you consider supporting your local bookshops as we continue to support the literary needs of our community members and organizations. Save 10% on these Nantucket Book Club titles with code ACKBOOKCLUB at checkout or in store at Mitchells or Bookworks.

This bitter cold makes walking on our windy island a bit more difficult 🌬️🥶. But the sun is still out and the Middle Moors are still a great place for a drive. Turn the heater up, put on a good radio station (@97.7ackfm @quahogcountry89.5 ), and tap into your sense of adventure on rugged roads.

📸: @_neilfoley

We had a great time yesterday hosting the first of the collaborative Winter Wellness Walks! It was so nice to get out with community members, move our feet, enjoy the bounty of open space, and learn a few things along the way!

You can join a walk like this each month with a different partner organization to get a cross-section of conservation work across Nantucket. Swipe to see the schedule and find the events on Eventbrite by searching Nantucket Winter Wellness Walk

Special thanks to the @nantucketlandcouncil for organizing this series and @ackdude for the photo from yesterday!

New Blog Post! Kelly Omand brings another instance of Winter Botany as she tells us why its a good (and fragrant) idea to look down this winter for spots of Wintergreen across the island. A few species of creeping Wintergreen can be found across Nantucket, sharing their familiar scent for the adventurous sniffers!

Read more through the link in our bio

On the snowy surface of a bog in the Moors: Pitcher Plants power nap, Sphagnum Moss slumbers, Cranberry catnaps, and Laurels laze around in preparation for the new year of growth.

So dont feel bad if youre taking the first week of the year slow!

Feat:
~Northern Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia purpurea)
~Cranberry upright (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
~Sphagnum Moss
~Sheep Laurel (Kalmia angustifolia)

The snow is sticking around and turning the Middle Moors into a winter wonderland! Wheres your favorite sledding hill?

📸: @_neilfoley

Winters on Nantucket can be cold and isolating, which is why its important to spend a few hours in the sun moving those legs and minds!

A great way to do that is to join one of our upcoming Winter Walks. Free and open to the community, these walks will explore different trails across the island and connect you with nantucket ecology and history along the way.

You can register on our website and through the link in our bio.

December 28th, 1963...On a cold winter night, a group of Nantucketers met at 13 Vestal Street, the home of W. Ripley Nelson, who was then the President of the Nantucket Civic League. They came together to discuss the growing need for a conservation-minded, local non-profit to protect open space on Nantucket. The Foundation’s beginnings stemmed from this first meeting, which resulted in 9 original founders, 423 members and an initial acquisition of 0. 9 acres of land from Mrs. Henry M. Cook - the Bird Sanctuary on North Beach Street.

From humble beginnings and born out of great ideas, we now protect over 9000 acres of open space, important habitat, historic cranberry bogs, and wild places to connect with the real Nantucket. We have made strides over the last year to expand our community-minded programming, engagement with our ongoing science research, and the well benefits of connecting with our many trails and vistas. If you value these spaces and the thoughtful stewardship we practice, please consider donating to bolster our mission as we head into our 59th year.

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