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The Daggett Trailhead parking lot at Cedar Tree Neck has 11 parking spaces for visitors at the end of Obed Daggett Road. There are 6 parking spaces on the left side of the lot, and 5 spaces on the right side. When the lot is full, please try parking at the Taylor Gate trailhead at [...]
Shopping at Sheriff’s Meadow
Sheriff's Meadow Hats We recommend wearing our blaze orange cap while hunting and walking our trails during hunting season. Caps are also available in khaki and a green and white trucker-style. Currently, we are out of charcoal and breaker blue colors. All caps are embroidered with our SMF logo. Cozy and warm winter beanies available [...]
Sheriff’s Meadow Staff Working through Covid-19
We believe it is important for our trails to remain open during this time when, arguably, they are most in need. We have been fortunate to be able to continue working throughout the pandemic. To make this happen, we are working from home, or when internet service at home is spotty, alternating through the office; [...]
In Praise of Protected Lands and Special Places on Martha’s Vineyard
In Praise of Protected Lands and Special Places on Martha’s Vineyard Book excerpt by Tess Bramhall “People speak for themselves but the land cannot talk, so we who love Martha’s Vineyard must speak for it, must advocate for its survival as we know and love it,” writes Tess Bramhall in her new book In Praise [...]
Rez Williams’ Cedar Tree Neck Poster
Rez Williams’ Cedar Tree Neck Poster By Kate Feiffer We hope and suspect that the cover of this newsletter caught your eye. This past winter, Adam Moore and board member Sara Tucker came up with the idea of creating a poster reminiscent of, and inspired by, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) National Park Service posters [...]
Virtual Summer Benefit
Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is very pleased to invite you to our 2020 Virtual Summer Benefit on Monday, July 20, 2020 at 7:30 pm. Please join us on Zoom for a one-hour event featuring Adam Moore, with a filmed message from new Board President Peter Getsinger, and videos of our supporters and sanctuaries. The virtual format [...]
Statement of Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation
"We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it." Mary Oliver Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation cares for lands of great natural beauty. Over the past several days, I have reflected upon our role as steward of these lands, and on Mary Oliver’s statement. Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation must ensure that its work [...]
CTN Daggett Parking area closed May 18-22
During the week of May 18-22, the Obed Dagget Rd. parking area at Cedar Tree Neck Santuary will be closed for construction improvements. Please use the Taylor Gate Parking lot at the end of Indian Hill Rd. Thank you.
Our Trails Are Open
Our Trails Are Open From Executive Director, Adam Moore These lands were given for a purpose—to be sanctuaries. Across the Island, all of the many miles of trails maintained by Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation remain open for the public to use. The trails and sanctuaries will remain open provided that social distancing rules enacted in each [...]