The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission has purchased 32 acres known as Red Gate Farm in Aquinnah for $10 million from the family of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, according to a Facebook post Wednesday. The purchase is the second phase of a two-phase purchase to preserve the large swath of undeveloped land, according to […]
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New storybook walk at Sheriffâs Meadow Sanctuary
The beloved book âThe Gruffalo,â by Julia Donaldson, with illustrations by Axel Scheffler, will be the next book at Sheriffâs Meadow Sanctuaryâs storybook walk, which began last Saturday afternoon, April 19. According to a press release from Sheriffâs Meadow Sanctuary, âThe Gruffalo” is the story of a clever mouse who takes a walk in the woods and outsmarts the animals he encounters who would like to eat him by telling them about the Gruffalo. What is a Gruffolo? Find out while walking around Sheriffâs Meadow Sanctuary.
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Correllus trail-cutting campaign deemed illegal
Sheriff’s Meadow must heal forest, DCR determines.
Updated March 18
Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation must restore about 25 miles of unpermitted trails it blazed in the Manuel Correllus State Forest. The trails run afoul of standards, set by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and MassWildlife’s Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, that are meant to protect rare species and fragile ecosystems.
Sheriff’s Meadow, a leading conservation land trust on the Vineyard, has agreed to restore the trails under the guidance of DCR and MassWildlife. Sheriff’s Meadow executive director Adam Moore told The Times Wednesday he did not yet have a restoration cost estimate to share. Moore has taken responsibility for the unpermitted trails, which date from a 2018 pact between Sheriff’s Meadow and DCR for volunteer forest stewardship. Moore said it became evident in the spring of 2020 that trail work done