Preservation Trust faces June 15 deadline to conserve Exit 4 land

Paul Bruhn, executive director of the Preservation Trust of Vermont. Photo by Mike Polhamus/VTDigger
Conservation advocates must raise $120,000 over the next week in order to fund a 22-acre land purchase at Highway 89’s Exit 4, where plans for a massive hotel and shopping center have been scuttled in favor of a goat farm.
The majority of a 172-acre parcel slated for the development has been sold already to a Montpelier-based conservation organization called Castanea Foundation for $1.2 mil