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Conservation Restriction Placed on Forested, Western MA Mountain

Deval Patrick

Officials have placed a conservation restriction on a forest covered mountain in western Massachusetts marking the largest private land conservation deal in the state in nearly a century. WAMC’s Paul Tuthill reports…

The conservation restriction on 3,500 acres of Brushy Mountain in the towns of Leverett and Shutesbury allows forestry operations to continue, but conserves wildlife habitat and will provide recreational access to the public on what was previously private land.

The land was acquired for almost $9 million with $5 million coming from a US Forest Service grant secured by Congressman John Olver. 

Governor Patrick, joined federal, state, local officials and conservationists Tuesday to dedicate the conserved forest in honor of Paul C. Jones, the deceased 8th generation leader of the land company that had owned the parcel.

Paul Tuthill, WAMC News.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.