draft trail guide
Click on each Part below for the Eddy Sisters Trail Guide: Part I Part II Part III
Free Workshop held on new State tax credit for land conservation
Brewster landowners joined us for a free public workshop on April 21, 2012 at the Harwich Community Center to learn more about the $50,000 refundable tax credit available to landowners who preserve their land. The workshop was led by Mark H. Robinson, director, and staff of The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts, Inc. The [...]
Land Donation Added to Huckleberry Hill
At the end of 2011, John and Joann Figueras of East Brewster donated a 2-acre woodlot to the Brewster Conservation Trust. This parcel, thickly wooded with pitch pines, oaks and huckleberry, knits together three adjoining parcels of protected open space owned by the Town of Brewster. It also is traversed by an old cartpath used by [...]
The De-evolution of Mother’s Bog
Nature almost always finds it way back. What man has rent asunder, nature can re-stitch, given time. And nature has the time. So it is with the evolution of the Cape’s swamps to cranberry bogs and back to swamps, an evolution and de-evolution, if you will. Many of the Cape’s cranberry bogs were white cedar [...]
Help Trust raise $60,000 to preserve land on Main Street, Dollar Pond
Give the gift of land and life! You can help the Brewster Conservation Trust preserve 2.6 acres at Dollar Pond. Make a tax-deductible contribution in honor of your family or friends. Use our website’s handy and secure donation-by-credit card link. Or send a check made out to BCT at P.O. Box 268, Brewster MA 02631, [...]
