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Causes: Environment, Land Resources Conservation
Mission: To preserve land and promote stewardship and education to conserve tuckernuck island's natural communities and unique coastal ecology.
Programs: The organization acquires open land on tuckernuck island and preserves natural communities, including sandplain grasslands and priority habitat identified by the commonwealth of massachusetts as critical components for protecting the state's biodiversity; tuckernuck land trust organizes education programs and works with its partners to develop and implement plans for stewardship of the island's significant coastal ecosystem; tuckernuck land trust owns and operates a field station to provide on-island housing and resources for its summer coastal steward, and visiting conservation partners and researchers.