ALEXANDRIA â Three Jefferson County land parcels have been added this month to protected tracts in the Goose Bay and Crooked Creek areas of the Thousand Islands.
With a $225,360 grant from the stateâs Water Quality Improvement Project, the Thousand Islands Land Trust on Wednesday announced the acquisition of more than 500 wetland and forest acres in the town of Alexandria. A partnership between TILT and the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the acquisitions were driven by goals to improve and protect the surface water quality of the St. Lawrence River.
South of Oak Island in portions of Hammond, St. Lawrence County, and Alexandria, Crooked Creek Preserve was once farmland before being purchased by TILT in 1998. Between Crooked Creek and TILTâs Butterfield Marsh Preserve, the newly acquired Wilton parcel totals 182 acres and features mature white pine and oak forests, shrubland and 50 acres of DEC Class I wetlands.