Nantucket’s Loring Nature Foundation Gains Approval for Blinds and Trails

“Loring Nature Foundation's Duck Blinds and Nature Trails Receive ConCom Approval”
The Nantucket Independent, May 28, 2008
By Peter B. Brace

NANTUCKET -- By early summer, Nantucketers will get to walk around the North Head of Hummock Pond and in three different places, stop and view ducks and other birds from blinds along the shore.

At its May 21 meeting, the Conservation Commission voted 5-0 to issue an order of conditions to the Linda Loring Nature Foundation at 110 Eel Point Road to cut walking trails around that pond, which sits on its 270-acre property now protected by a conservation easement secured by the Nantucket Land Council for $14 million in April 2007. ...

In addition to the nature trails and blinds, the Foundation wants to begin conceptual and design phase of building a barn on the property for educational purposes. The Foundation will assemble a building committee later this year. All of this work, begun in 1999 when Linda Loring formed her six-member foundation, is for the island environmental education of children. ... ©

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