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Baxendale Woods
Lawrence Island
Red Brook Pond
Little Bay - Monks Park
Baxendale Woods
The Baxendale Woods 18-acre parcel is located at 55 Megansett Road, abutting more than 5 acres of existing BCT and Town of Bourne conservation land to the north. The conservation history of this land began in 1927 when Esther and Thomas Baxendale generously bequeathed Amrita Island, the buildings and the surrounding property to Harvard University and later to the Boston-based Animal Rescue League as a "perpetual memorial… to provide education on the care of wildlife.". Read more...
Lawrence Island
Forty years ago, with development booming all over Cape Cod, the Bourne Conservation Trust's first purchase was Lawrence Island, an effort supported by a robust fundraising campaign. Tracing ownership through the years is a long and complicated process but eventually the Trust was able to acquire the property from Red Acre Farm, a charitable organization that trained service dogs for the deaf. Partnerships with the State, the Town, and the Audubon Society were considered but, to retain local control, sole ownership by the BCT became the goal. Read more...
Red Brook Pond
Preserving more of nature was the major motivation for the Bourne Conservation Trust's decision in1986 to embark on the largest purchase of land since the Trust's founding just a few years earlier. Although individual gifts of land pre-date the BCT decision to undertake the Red Brook Pond Project, there is little doubt that the pledge to raise 1.3 million dollars (more than twice that amount in today's dollars) was our largest major commitment to open space preservation. Read more...
More BCT Properties
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Walking Trails:
• Baxendale Woods
• Bourne Sisters Woodland
• Little Bay
• Monks Park (Town of Bourne)
• Cape Cod Canal Access
~ Nickerson Conservation Area
~ Freeman Farm
• Red Brook Pond Conservation Area
• Spring Hill Farm
• Cataumet Green Way
~ DeNormandie Woods
~ Joyce Paths
~ Birch Woods
~ Broyer Conservation Area (Town of Bourne)
~ Handy Conservation Area
~ Robinson Conservation Area (Town of Bourne)
~ Kingman
~ Cataumet Depot
~ Washington Park (Town of Bourne)
• Lawrence Island Wildlife Sanctuary
• Cataumet Garden Center
Scenic Vistas and Village Preservation (Rural Character Preservation)
• Pocasset Park
• George S. Read Woodland
• Dimmick Waterfront
• Dimmick Field
• Shultz Corner and Cobb Corner
• Foster Howard Road Corner
• Ocean Avenue Corner
• The Triangle
• Cataumet Crossing
Flora and Fauna Habitat Preservation (no public access)
• Paulinda Road
• Broad Swamp
• Mashnee/Gray Gables
• Wing's Neck Conservation
• Toby Island Preserve
• Bassett's Island Nature Preserve
• Wijnties Preserve
• Pond Island Bog
Misc.
• MacArthur Blvd lots
• Falmouth Avenue lots