Old Saybrook Land Trust President Joe Nochera and Treasurer Mike Urban recently presented Alicia Sullivan and Lori Fernand of the Trust for Public Land with a $30,000 donation toward the purchase and preservation of the 1,000-acre Preserve.

Old Saybrook residents voted overwhelmingly to provide $3 million in town funds towards purchase of the property, which was once slated to be turned into golf courses and a housing development. Connecticut Fund for the Environment and Trust for Public Land are challenged to permanently protect this coastal forest that shelters wildlife and migratory birds, filters drinking water, and contains miles of hiking trails. Click on this Environmental Headline for more from CFE and others as the story develops.

With the recent award of a $500,000 state grant, the Campaign for Coogan Farm has now raised over $2.6 million towards its $3.5 million goal to conserve the 34-acre parcel as a natural historic park.

Voters in East Lyme approved a $4.23 million bond act to acquire 300 acres of rolling fields and mature maple and oak forests for water quality protection and as community open space, according to the Trust for Public Land’s Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Land&People magazine. Click on this environmental headline for more of this story.

From the Trust for Public Land: Darrow Pond in East Lyme is ballot-bound: In East Lyme, Connecticut, the purchase of 300 acres at scenic Darrow Pond is on its way to voters today after the town’s board of finance approved a $4.5 million bond. TPL experts played a key role in negotiations to acquire the

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