Lands Protected by Dennis Conservation Trust

The Dennis Conservation Trust, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has a neat table on its website detailing all of the acreage it has protected from its founding in 1988 through 2006. With 69 transactions comprising a total of 468.5 acres, here’s another way of looking at the table:

Acreage

Upland – 136.7 acres (29.1%)
Wetland – 327.22 acres (69.8%)

More than 25 acres – 3 transactions (4.3%)
10 to 25 acres – 4 transactions (5.7%)
1 to 10 acres – 32 transactions (46.3%)
Less than 1 acre – 27 transactions (39.1%)
Not specified – 2 transactions (2.8%)

Acquisition Type

Gift – 51 transactions (73.9%)
Gift, Purchase – 12 transactions (17.3%)
Conservation Restriction – 5 transactions (7.2%)
Purchase – 1 transaction (1.4%)

The largest parcel preserved by the Dennis Conservation Trust: a 205-acre tract of salt marsh donated in 1994.

The Trust's 2008 Annual Auction is scheduled for July 20, 2008, at the Dennis town green. For details, or to learn more about what the Dennis Conservation Trust has accomplished over the past 20 years, please read the Trust's Summer 2008 Newsletter.