Chatham Conservation Foundation and Town Landbank Committee work together to preserve Open Space.

For 36 years, Chatham Conservation Foundation was the only vehicle for conserving open space in the Town of Chatham. In1998 upon the enactment the Cape Cod Open Space Land Acquisition Program for the purposes of acquiring land, CCF found a partner in the Town Land Bank Committee for the conservation of Chatham land. A trustee from the Foundation regularly attends Town Land Bank meetings to keep communication open between the two entities which are both working toward the same goals. There have been several successful projects as a result of this partnership.

At the November 27, 2000 special Town Meeting the Chatham Conservation Fdn. and the Landbank Committee jointly acted for the first time to propose the purchase of 4.7 areas from the Kolb Brothers. This property is shown on Town Maps as Lots 1 thru 4 on Huckleberry Lane off Main St., in South Chatham. The Foundation contributed one third of the $277,000 cost, for which it received Lots 2 & 3 (Parcel #166), comprising approximately 2.26 areas on January 11, 2001.

In Article 13 at the January 14, 2002 Special Town Meeting the Town authorized $100,000 toward the purchase of a lot off Ivy Lane in the Old Village from the Robert Alexander Family Trust. This was also supported by $500,000 in private donations. CCF's support of $100,000 consummated the purchase of the 1.724 areas. The northern half of the property was deeded to the Town, with the balance to the Foundation. In addition a conservation easement over the total acreage was granted to the Foundation on Parcel # 169.

At the May 12, 2003 Town Meeting the Foundation and Landbank Committee proposed the splitting of the $200,000 cost on the purchase of .93 areas from the three Douglas Wells children and Francis Kasper, known as Lots 19 & 19A. The westerly half of the property adjacent to Skunks Neck Road at the intersection of Stetson Cove Lane was granted to the Foundation on January 16, 2004. (Parcel #175).