Posted on 12/14/2022 5:22:01 PM PST by simpson96
This week an island formerly owned by a Seattle woman was donated to the Island Trust Conservancy, marking the largest land donation the conservancy has ever received.
Betty Swift, who passed away in 2021, left instructions that Link Island will be transferred to the Islands Trust Conservancy in hopes that the location can be used for climate-change research in the Salish Sea.
“This gift is about the future, it is a gift for us all,” said Barbara Swift, Betty Swift’s daughter, in a press release.
Located Southeast of Nanaimo, the landmass spans 52.5 acres and is valued at $3.73 million.
Nestled between Mudge Island and DeCourcy Island, Link Island is home to a wealth of biodiversity.
With over three kilometres of undeveloped shoreline, coastal cliffs, wetlands, tidal flats and mixed forest ecosystems including threatened coastal Douglas-fir, arbutus, and prairie oak meadows.
While the island will remain closed to the public, providing sanctuary to the rare and threatened ecosystems, Swift’s gift to the conservancy reserves the right to use Link Island for her children and grandchildren for the duration of their lives.
“We feel so honoured that Betty and her family have entrusted us with this island,” says Linda Adams, Islands Trust Conservancy Chair. “It is our intent to manage Link Island in a way that recognizes and protects both its cultural and ecological values.”
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Turn it into a sustaneable, subsistence living homeless camp.
Lets strip mine it for battery minerals! Preferably using child labor from African countries.
Learn to fish.
It will need a headquarters compound for the special research gatherings that will occur coincident with major holidays.
Helo pad for elite access. Probably armed sea patrol, to protect the island microbes.
Homeless people could fish and feed themselves from the island. The Homeless are calling this move thoughtless, cruel and insensitive.
Retard.
It’s her island. She can do whatever she wants with it.
A whole 52 acres. You could walk across it in five minutes.
“... in hopes that the location can be used for climate-change research in the Salish Sea.”
Better chance of that spit of land getting wiped out by a tsunami than getting burned up in a fake global warming scam.
I spent most of a summer with friends on an island near Link Island when I was a college undergrad.
"Learn to fish" is right. The just-caught salmon I ate there, cooked over a campfire, is the best seafood I've ever had.
This is the reason that scammers from India target the old and infirm people...totally gullible
Sure to find an ankle sneaker
“Your vote will be stolen by the Rats/Deep State and go to somebody like Newsome.”
Totally gay.
Good for her. Question, with all that money in the area like Paul Allen and Allan Island? Or Oprah Winfrey has quietly sold her 43-acre waterfront estate on Orcas Island for $14 million in an off-market deal last year. All those rich Libs and yet no donations to protect a unique area? Guess talks cheap!
Perfect!
Now you’re talk’n!
You mean like San Francisco? Needles and human waste?
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