Salem Sound Coastwatch is dedicated to protecting and improving the environmental quality of Salem Sound and its watershed.

Join Salem Sound Coastwatch’s Adopt a Beach Program and fight pollution by cleaning up and monitoring your favorite beach!

Volunteer beachkeepers look for contamination, observe conditions such as erosion and the influx of invasive plants, clean up trash and report on storm damage on their adopted beach. Beachkeeper training includes an informative two-hour workshop on beach ecology called “Beaches 101.” Topics include how to identify invasive species on the beach and in the water, how to identify storm damage, what causes beaches to either erode or grow bigger, and more.

For more information, see www.salemsound.org/adoptabeach.html, call 978-741-7900, or e-mail info@salemsound.org.