Scouts enlist in fight to save land

The scuttling of a $1.6 million state grant for the purchase of Cedar Gorge Clay Bluffs Nature Preserve land by legislators who were lobbied by a developer with designs on the Port Washington property has inspired a surge of support from a growing number of people for the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust’s preservation efforts.

Count among them 16 Daisy Scouts, members of Girl Scout Troop 1401, who have made it their mission to save the 131 acres of Lake Michigan bluff land from development and see it protected and open to the public in perpetuity.