East Lyme ― More than 100 acres of land in the Oswegatchie Hills currently owned by the East Lyme Land Trust have been put up as collateral in the conservation group’s bid to hold onto another proper.
The Deer Lake situation, on which the Council declined to comment, is another example of the whack-a-mole approach conservationists are often forced to take to save some of the state’s dwindling supply of open land.
In Killingworth, environmentalists and public officials are trying to stop the Boy Scouts of America from selling its wooded 252-acre Deer Lake Scout Reservation to a developer.