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Published on: 8/10/2006
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The Tiverton Land Trust is working with the Tiverton Open Space Commission, the Nature Conservancy, and other area landowners on additional conservation easements and acquisions in the area, said Alan Cruickshank, vice-president of the Land Trust.
He said he could not disclose any details of ongoing negotiations.
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According to a statement issued by Cruickshank and Trish Sylvester, president of the Tiverton Land Trust, the Pereira land contains a "wonderful diversity of habitats," that juxtapose swamps, open fields, upland forest and areas of bedrock.
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Cruickshank said the wooded parts of the property are part of a larger area that is a mature forest in the making, a rarity in much of New England.Among other things, the forest is an important feeding and resting station for many types of birds that migrate north and south with the seasons, he said.