Patuxent Tidewater Land Trust has announced the November 29, 2022, closing of its latest conservation easement: 133.5 acres of forests and wetland east of Leonardtown. Aaron Leroy and Judith Fay Mast own the property, which is located off of Leonardtown-Hollywood Road. This easement protects forever a particularly sensitive landscape in the McIntosh Run watershed. It is also the first transaction between PTLT and members of the county’s Mennonite community. The property consists of narrow, forested plateaus topping steep forested hillsides draining south toward 40.87 acres of forested bottomland on either side of Brooks Run, a tributary of McIntosh Run which feeds into Breton Bay, a tidal tributary of the Potomac River. The easement provides permanent forested stream buffer to 8,242 linear feet of stream channels, including smaller streams located in steep swales draining through areas of highly erodible soils and occupying the wooded slope and main stem of Brooks Run. “We’re very pleased with this transaction because it involves extremely sensitive environmental conditions,” PTLT President Frank Allen said.” The entire property has been identified by Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources as likely habitat for state-designated Forest Interior Dwelling Species. Simply put, the Mast property is significant for biodiversity conservation. A […]
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