By President & Executive Director Karen Grey
Stewarding conservation land is messy, hard work, especially when a parcel has been neglected and stewards are called upon to clean up years of misuse, overgrowth and dumping. These types of projects require the good cheer, know-how and efficiencies brought to bear by a team of can-do people, such as the group that convened on May 15, 2021 to revitalize a parcel in Yarmouth recently protected by the Native Land Conservancy (NLC).
Founded in 2012 in Mashpee, NLC is the first Native-run land conservation group east of the Mississippi. Its mission is to preserve healthy landscapes for all living things and to help restore land to its natural state. As a developing land trust, NLC relies on volunteers for stewardship work, and Wildlands was happy to send a few members of our A-Team (Owen Grey, Marilynn Atterbury, and Rob MacDonald), along with our truck and tools, to assist with the set-up of this 11-acre parcel on Cape Cod.
As time and resources allow, Wildlands is committed to helping other, less-resourced land trusts in any way we can.
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