“Native Plant Stripping Violates State Law”
Vineyard Gazette, May 16, 2008
By Mike Seccombe
MARTHA’S VINEYARD -- Scraped earth at Sheriff’s Meadow property in Edgartown. In what may portend a troubling new trend, two prominent Island conservation properties -- one in Edgartown and another in Chilmark -- along with a third private property in Oak Bluffs have been virtually strip-mined to provide native plants for a billionaire landowner who is building a huge home on the North Shore. ...
... one immediate effect of the case has been to end an informal arrangement which has long existed between Sheriff’s Meadow and some Island landscapers, which allowed them to remove trees from foundation properties in exchange for helping with their management. ... ©
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Native Plant Stripping On Martha's Vineyard Violates State Law
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