Friends help BNRC buy Chestnut Street Reserve

Thanks to the generous support of The Nion Robert Thieriot Foundation and over 100 additional donors, BNRC closed on the purchase of its new Chestnut Street Reserve in Lee on May 15.

This strategic acquisition accomplished several conservation goals, knitting together the Landers Road Preserve, the historic Dodgetown conservation restriction and Basin Pond to protect the eastern gateway to the Berkshires.

The new reserve is open to the public, with as-yet unimproved access from Chestnut Street. There are no immediate plans to create a hiking trail on the property, but hunters and other adventurers with a decent sense of direction will enjoy the reserve’s wooded bowl and the higher land on the Landers Road Reserve. (Dodgetown, though conserved, remains in private ownership and is not open to the general public)

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