Pond Cove

Managed by Cape Elizabeth Land Trust

Since 2022

In Maine, US

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About this site

Pond Cove is a quaint rock beach on the right side of Shore Road in Cape Elizabeth, ME. The cove is about 100 yards long and is home to large tide pools at low tide and large waves at high tide. This ecosystem is teeming with life, including a thick bed of rockweed, lots of marine organisms, and visiting waterfowl.

A 2015 report from Casco Bay Estuary Partnership identified Pond Cove as one of two sections of Cape Elizabeth's rocky coast that are most likely to impacted by rising sea levels. Photos taken at this observation site will help to document changes in tidal patterns as well as the ripple effects of those changes. In particular, this post will help record changes to habitat, such as marsh migration.

Learn More about what impacts will sea level rise have on marshes, conserved lands, marine resources, and other nearshore resources.

The section of Pond Cove adjecent to Shore Road is owned and protected by Cape Elizabeth Land Trust as part of Robinson Woods Preserve.

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[UPDATE - the post was moved to a new nearby location and re-launched in late 2022].

About Cape Elizabeth Land Trust

The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust maintains five photo monitoring stations to enable citizen science monitoring of environmental changes in our local ecosystems. Through these locations and accompanying education programs, we hope to foster climate change literacy, scientific engagement, and connections to nature in our community. This project began in 2021 with financial support from the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership.

CELT is part of the Momentum Conservation's Climate Change Observatory Network, a photo monitoring program designed to work with environmental organizations and communities to assist with the observation, measurement and documentation of long‐term climate change trends and climate adaptation projects.

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Coordinates: 43.60955, -70.216266

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