Archive for the ‘Priority Ponds Project’ Category

thumbnail

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, [...]

thumbnail

Winter 2011-12 Newsletter

Read about the Trust’s two new fundrasising campaigns to save shorelines on Round Pond and Dollar Pond as part of the Priority Ponds Project; update on recent lands acquired; a profile of land donor Daryl Massey Bladen; our Conservationists of the Year; and the last BCT cartoon by the recently-deceased Gordon Brooks.  Click on this [...]

thumbnail

2012 President’s Message by Peter Johnson

There is an old, odd expression, “I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em.”  (Don’t bother to look it up, it is out of context here!)  The Brewster Conservation Trust is currently taking advantage of unique opportunities to save land throughout our town.  One of the few benefits of a down-economy is that prices of [...]

thumbnail

Last wild lot on Smith Pond preserved

There will be one less house between historic Stony Brook Road and Smith Pond, now that the Brewster Conservation Trust has purchased a 2-acre building lot there this March.  We could not have done it without the strong support of the Stony Brook Road neighborhood, which raised the funding for the $235,000 acquisition by BCT.  [...]

thumbnail

51 acres of open space approved at Town Meeting

Brewster Town Meeting on May 3 voted to protect 51 acres of town-owned land for conservation and water supply protection.  Article 22′s passage will transfer 29 acres of woodland into the custody of the Water Department to protect the main wellfield off Freemans Way.  Article 23′s approval will transfer two parcels totaling 12 acres to the custody of the [...]

BCT on YouTube