There’s been misinformation in the news recently about the Westwood Land Trust, and we want to set the record straight. 

Duncan and Ellen McFarland, the couple who originally purchased and donated Clapboardtree Meadow to the Town of Westwood in 2001, have sent a letter to the Select Board urging the Town to drop its lawsuit against the Westwood Land Trust.

Read the Westwood Land Trust’s response to the lawsuit filed against them by the Town of Westwood.

Clapboardtree Meadow isn’t a field of weeds waiting for cultivation. It is a rare, fully mature meadow - a thriving, self-sustaining ecosystem rich with biodiversity.