<p>The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank bank added 400 feet of white sand beachfront to its holdings in Vineyard Haven Friday with the purchase of a five-acre parcel near the mouth of Lake Tashmoo.</p>
The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank added 400 feet of white sand beachfront to its holdings in Vineyard Haven Friday with the purchase of a five-acre parcel near the mouth of Lake Tashmoo on Vineyard Sound.
The sale price is $1.9 million for 4.7 acres. The seller is Virginia Ursin.
The new property lies off Herring Creek Road and abuts the town/county beach. The purchase will effectively triple the public beachfront there, the land bank said in a post on its Facebook page. It also lies adjacent to Wilfred Pond Preserve, a small land bank beachfront property east of the Tashmoo opening.
Two summer cottages on the new beachfront will be taken down, and a dune will be restored to its natural state, the land bank said.
Preliminary management plans call for the property to be open for fishing, swimming, boating and other riparian uses, and nesting terns will be protected, the land bank said.
Plans call for the property to be open for public use by next summer.
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If they are going to protect
Islander EdgartownIf they are going to protect the turns then plan on using this mid august sometime
Look at Norton Point
The perfect use of land Bank
Bob EdgartownThe perfect use of land Bank money. Much better than those wood lots in the middle of the island with little to no parking.
The beach purchases are
tom hodgson wtThe beach purchases are wonderful, but those interior preservation parcels do have an important and critical use...they're where the aquifer gets recharged. Better to have woods there than houses and septic systems.
This is a really nice
Fisherman MVThis is a really nice purchase for beach goers at a beautiful spot. I don't know how this would mesh with your conservation goals, but if you could set aside a bit of space for parking it would be great for the summer crowds that will use this new public resource. Sunny beach days aren't my thing, and as a fishing person, I enjoy more rights than most when it comes to using private shoreline. You can fish, fowl, or navigate in the private "wet sand" but can't put down a towel or wander and enjoy. Grab a fishing pole, and actually fish (courts decided long ago a token rod with no intent to fish doesn't get you access), and if you can get legal entry you can walk the billionaire beaches. This leads to my next point. I know us fishing people are just one of many constituents of yours, and I don't expect outsized expenditures on our behalf. But if you could keep an eye out Land Bank agents, buying up some up Island slivers of land with beach access and parking would be swell! You give us a tiny bit of access and we can wander for miles. It would be good for the fisher people and good for the waterfront property owners (morally speaking). Thanks for your recent purchase reported here. It will make for a lot of lovely times for families! If you get the chance, buy some entry for us to fish, and if not, still a job well done.
You certainly don't need to
Jay Lagemann chilmarkYou certainly don't need to actually catch fish to be "fishing". As for "fowling", it allowed to shooting birds so you could feed yourself and your family either by directly eating them or selling them. I wonder if today it would cover a photographer who "shoot" birds with his camera and sells the results of his "fowling".
Jay, if catching fish was
Fisherman MVJay, if catching fish was required I would be looking at some serious trespassing charges. I can't catch fish most days. But I do try. Actually, I have only rarely used my right to fish private wet sand, and it was when I would otherwise be in conflict with other public beach users. I definitely don't go out of my way to fish private. I have heard that question about bird watching being considered fowling. I suspect property owners would object to high powered optics almost as much as fowling guns. It would be an interesting court case and I could see it go either way, but I am no legal expert. The birder lobby is very wealthy so it might be a fair battle. I do feel most badly for people with no other goal than to wander or rest and enjoy. That's why this purchase is so nice. Too bad we have such antiquated laws, but they predate the country and I don't see them changing any time soon.
Another great open space
Craig CaliforniaAnother great open space acquisition. Wonder if the two removed cottages will be replaced by the land trust elsewhere to mitigate the impact on the island's affordable housing supply?
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