Barnstable Land Trust Faces June Deadline to Raise Funds for Baker Property

With the town of Barnstable recently approving $100,000 in Community Preservation Act funds for the cause, the Barnstable Land Trust must still raise $23,000 by June 17, 2008, in order to preserve the five-acre Baker Property along Little River in Cotuit.

According to BLT's website, the Baker Property is significant because it "preserves water quality of the adjacent Cotuit well fields; connects with 800 acres of protected open space; enhances the waters of the Little River, which feeds freshwater to the Cotuit Bay; completes the acquisition of vacant land along the Little River, a major corridor in Barnstable’s Open Space Plan; and protects varied wildlife habitat."

For more information about the project and the fund raising effort, please visit BLT's website or read the Spring 2008 issue of its newsletter, Resources.