CNN Notes Loring Tract on Nantucket

In featuring Nantucket, CNN International’s Travel & Leisure April 2008 mentions the 270-acre tract of land that was at the center of a $14 million conservation restriction agreement penned in 2007 between landowner Linda Loring and the Nantucket Land Council:

“And Nantucket social fixture Linda Loring turned over 270 acres of her property -- the largest remaining privately owned, unprotected tract -- to the Nantucket Land Council; they're now part of more than 13,000 acres (40 percent of the island) designated as conserved land, most of which is open to the public.”

For a detailed account of the transaction, Ms. Loring’s preservation efforts, and future plans for the protected tract, see the newspaper article “Land Council Seals Deal Keeping 270-Acre Loring Property Forever Wild,” which appeared in Nantucket’s The Inquirer and Mirror in 2007, and the Winter 2007 and Summer 2007 issues of The NLC News, the Nantucket Land Council’s newsletter.