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

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Meet Our Seasonals!

By Jen Karberg | June 30, 2022

Each year, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation hires 2-4 seasonal employees to help us get field work done. NCF's Science and Stewardship Department has over 15 different projects exploring the unique...

NBI Science Showcase is Here: Come Explore Nantucket with Us!

By Jen Karberg | June 1, 2022

The Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative (NBI) represents conservation organizations, naturalists, and researchers from across the island (including the Nantucket Conservation Foundation!) and every other we come together and invite the public...

Knotweed on Nantucket: Biocontrol Possibilities

By Kelly A. Omand | May 18, 2022

A knotweed patch along the bikepath at Sanford farm in 2017. Photo: Libby Buck. Got Knotweed? There’s a good chance knotweed is one of those plants you're battling in your...

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Local Eagle Scout Gabe Zinser has finished and installed four Bat Rocket Roosts on NCF properties around the island.

Guided by our amazing ecologist, Danielle ODell 🦇🐢, crowd funded by the community, and aided by his trusty team of friends and volunteers (Jeremy Caspe, Griffin Fox, Reuben Eldridge, Ben Zinser, and Gabes dad Jason Zinser). These roosts will be appropriately sized places for Nantuckets Endangered Northern Long-eared Bats to live.

Congratulations to Gabes accomplishment and we hope that they provide happy spaces for our bats to thrive!

Learn more about these roosts and Danielles work studying bats on our website!

Pasture thistle (Cirsium pumilum) is going nuts blooming through the grasslands and open areas around the island. Were happy and so are the pollinators!!!

Our first Native Plant Landscaping Tour was a great success! Kelly Omands care and expertise is so amazing to see in action and it was great to pick the brain of a botanist on how to incorporate more native plants in your yard.

This also helped promote the Planting for Pollinator program from @nantucketlandcouncil
And the grants from @nantucketgardenclub

Join us for the next session on July 21st!

Say hello to the first banded American Oystercatcher chicks of 2022! These codes on each yellow band will help birders and researchers identify individuals and keep track of their many happy migrations to Florida (and beyond) and their return to start nests of their own on Coatue. After many years of carefully watching these long-lived birds, we know so much about the behavior and ecology of this incredible native species.

When out in Squam Forest, take a second to look up and see our Tupelo trees expressing a very cool trait. Crown Shyness is seen when the crown and canopy of one tree stops short and doesnt touch the tree next to it.

The origin of this phenomena has been shown through different mechanisms in different species, a great example of convergent evolution!

Besides the nerdy aspects of how cool this is, Crown Shyness is a beautiful and intricate display (as shown by this great photo by Thad Jones)

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What's Happening

Meet Our Seasonals!

NBI Science Showcase is Here: Come Explore Nantucket with Us!

Knotweed on Nantucket: Biocontrol Possibilities

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