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Help Trust raise $60,000 to preserve land on Main Street, Dollar Pond

Just in time for the holidays: 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 [...]

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Help save Huckleberry Hill!

Burgundy-colored huckleberry atop the 134-foot high hill, highest in Brewster! The Brewster Conservation Trust has begun a fundraising campaign to preserve 10 acres atop the highest hill in Brewster.  We need $120,600 to buy this parcel in East Brewster.  We hope our members and the public will support this effort.  All donations are tax-deductible and make a [...]

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BCT installs its first nature trail

Volunteers of the Brewster Conservation Trust, led by President Peter Johnson, recently installed the first nature trail/walking loop on BCT property.  The trail starts at the Community Gardens on Lower Road and winds for almost a half-mile through the meadow and into the woods and back, crisscrossing dikes over the old Thorndike Bog, now grown [...]

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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.  [...]

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Cape magazine features BCT’s work

Recent projects of Cape Cod land trusts, including BCT’s Quivett Marsh Vista land purchase and our Priority Ponds campaign, are highlighted in this article of Cape Healing Arts magazine.  Our thanks to publisher Beth Draper of Brewster and writer Susan Spencer, a Brewster part-time resident, for this beautiful and informative story about our work.

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