Deer Isle group conserves land to help avoid downstream shellfish closures

Deer Isle group conserves land to help avoid downstream shellfish closures

Water quality in Long Cove, an inlet of Deer Isle that hosts clamming, elver harvesting and an oyster farm, is set to be protected by a new conservation project upstream. Island Heritage Trust, a land trust that preserves properties in Deer Isle and Stonington, is on track to acquire 77 acres at the headwaters of Meadow Brook for that purpose. Water there flows into the cove. Protecting land at the headwaters from development will help preserve …