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Mass.’ largest landowner selling 5,000 acres for conservation

Southampton Conservation Land
Kestrel Land Trust property already preserved in Southampton adjoins newly acquired conservation land. (Photo provided by Kestrel Land Trust)Courtesy of Kestrel Land Trust

AMHERST – Lumber company W.D. Cowls is completing its sale of 5,000 acres – about a third of its forested land – in a wilderness conservation plan worth $30 million or more.

“It just didn’t make sense to keep as much as we had,” said Cinda Jones, president of W. D. Cowls and developer of The Mill District in North Amherst. “It’s a sad day. But I could have just as easily picked development.”

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