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 [...]
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. [...]
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.
Read all about new conservation doings in Brewster in our (click here) Spring Newsletter: fundraising to preserve 10 acres at Huckleberry Hill and three acres surrounding a vernal pool (check out the spotted salamander and her eggs found on the parcel), a report on the Stony Brook restoration, an appreciation of John Hay and our assist [...]
We’re at it again–asking our members and friends to help us buy a critical habitat parcel in Brewster. We need $16,000 to purchase and preserve three acres of a pine/oak forest surrounding the whole of a vernal pool. Watch a 2-minute video of our volunteers documenting the pool’s amphibian inhabitants by clicking: Vernal Pool Visit. [...]
 |
 |
 |
|
||
 |
|
 |
|
||
