WOLCOTT – The Northern Rivers Land Trust (NRLT) celebrated their newest Wolcott easement on Sunday, July 27, from Bill Morrison on his 286 Pond Brook Lane acres near Wolcott Pond.
NRLT Board Chair Jack Travelstead thanked Morrison for his two years of participation in the easement process: assessing the property’s conservation values and developing the easement in perpetuity to protect his land from development. Protection of the Morrison property includes its forested land, one mile of Wolcott Pond Brook, extensive wetlands and a well-managed internal road system for timber management.
Morrison remembered his early impression of the surrounding forest, which had been heavily logged professionally for the previous 20 to 30 years. He said that despite the logging, the woods “looked to me like the forest primeval with the murmuring pines and the hemlocks. It looked like an ancient forest.”
