PROVIDENCE — Gov. Lincoln Almond announced Wednesday that the state has agreed to buy Dyer Island, a 28-acre parcel of land off the coast of Portsmouth, for $551,200.
The acquisition, made by the Department of Environmental Management ( DEM) from Dyer Straits, Ltd. of Portsmouth, will be added to the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, the governor’s office said.
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According to the governor’s office, the purchase was funded by $251,200 from the state’s 1998 open space bond fund, and $300,000 from an anticipated grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration.
The island will remain open to boaters after the deal closes in September, but the parcel will be kept undeveloped and used principally for research. Among the island’s features are an unditched salt marsh and nesting oystercatchers, a type of shorebird rare to Rhode Island.
