The Provincetown Conservation Trust is a private, all-volunteer, non-profit (501c3) organization, founded in 1980, dedicated to preserving the woods, wetlands, heathlands, dunes and forests of Provincetown, home to a great variety of native flora and fauna, some of it not found anywhere else. These natural habitats are an important Greenway, key links in the wildlife corridors of Cape Cod, and vital to the ecological health of the United States Eastern Seaboard.We are a land trust. We own over 60 acres of land in Provincetown and hold the conservation restriction on over 50 acres of mostly town-owned conservation properties. Widespread residential development, in the form of new condominiums and subdivisions, has replaced much of Provincetown's natural lands.Our beaches, our fish and our shellfish need clean upland buffers to protect them. Our fresh water sources need clean marshlands and swamplands to filter and preserve them. Our beachfront town needs woodlands and dunes to guard it against erosion.Protecting and preserving Provincetown's natural beauty will not only benefit residents, but help attract artists and writers, visitors and ecotourists from around the world.