On February 9, 2023, for the first time in 50 years, Wildlands Trust was forced to close a property under our care and custody, the Shifting Lots Preserve in Plymouth. The property will remain closed until further notice. We received several phone calls about hunters staged on the trail entrance to the beach; we also heard from property visitors about two off-leash dogs attacking and maiming wildlife. At that point, to protect the public from known safety issues and to protect defenseless wildlife, we instructed the Wildlands’ stewardship staff to lock the parking lot gate and to post the property as “Closed.”