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Cape Cod National Seashore
Support Your Park

FRIENDS of the Cape Cod National Seashore is a non-profit organization of caring individuals who have a very special love and respect for this spectacular National Park. Their purpose is to support and enhance people's enjoyment of the seashore by:

  • funding worthy environmental, historical, educational, and recreational programs such as refurbishing the Old Harbor Life-Saving Station in Provincetown, replanting areas after removal of invasives species, and sponsoring summer band concerts;
  • publicizing issues that affect the protection and preservation of the seashore's resources;
  • providing volunteers for important projects such as as trail maintenance programs, beach clean-ups and dune grass plantings;
  • managing several special funds that contribute to important educational, archival and research projects at the seashore

Contributions to Cape Cod National Seashore

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Did You Know?
The Pamet Cranberry Bog in Truro was once an operating commercial bog. Workers, some of whom in later years were of Cape Verdean descent, maintained and harvested the bog from the 1880s until 1961.

Last Updated: October 17, 2007 at 11:24 EST