Size

MAPS

54 acres (7 acres of open field and 47 acres of forest)

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Conservation Purposes

The property contains a variety of essential habitats including a field used actively for local agriculture; a large block of intact, upland forest; and a variety of wetland types including streams and forested wetlands. These conservation values will be protected by a permanent conservation easement that the Read Family has generously sold to CCLT at half of the appraised value.

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Read family history

In addition to protecting the property from future subdivision and development, the conservation easement will allow CCLT to install a small parking area adjacent to Blanchard Road and create and maintain trails for non-motorized recreation in the forested portions of the property and to connect to Rines Forest.

“Dr. Frank Read purchased this land in 1984 to prevent a housing development from being built there. Our family has since spent many long afternoons roaming those woods and meadows, and now we have decided to permanently conserve the property with CCLT so that others may do the same, in perpetuity.”

— MARK READ