More than six years after it bought 190 acres of Oak Bluffs land to protect it from real estate development, the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank has produced a management plan for the Southern Woodlands, providing for walkers, bikers, hunters and campers.

The preserve, 234 acres in total, between Lagoon and Sengekontacket Ponds, is one of the largest undeveloped areas on the Island. When the conservation agency acquired the 190 acres for $18.6 million in 2004, it was the largest single acquisition in the history of the land bank, both in terms of land area and cost.

The purchase ended years of dispute over the use of the land, previously owned by a Connecticut businessman, Corey Kupersmith, who planned to develop it as a luxury golf course, and then a major housing development.

Now, however, the land will be used for simpler purposes.

It will be left largely undisturbed under the plan. The proposal is to maintain nearly two miles of ancient ways and create a new 1.4-mile trail for passive recreation.

It will close 1.5 miles of old road which led into a former campground, operated by Harold Webb beginning in the mid-1900s and will remove the remaining outbuildings and other traces of that campground.

Meanwhile, a new “primitive” campground is proposed for the southeast corner of the property, off County Road, and accessible by bicycle or on foot.

Of the total area, most is oak or pitch pine forest, but 5.8 acres of existing grassland will be preserved and extended by about another five acres. The plan is to maintain 6.3 of those acres as grassland, mown every year, and to lease 4.6 acres to a farmer for agricultural use.

The lead author of the draft plan, land bank ecologist Julie Russell, said the property was exceptional less for its biodiversity than for its topography and sheer size.

“The key fact is that it’s such a large contiguous piece of land. It’s unique in that part of the Island, which is otherwise quite densely settled,” she said.

“The woodland itself is mostly oak and a scattering of pines, although the area along some of the roadways and trails is more diverse. The area by the old campground has a lot of evergreens.

“The topography is interesting; there is a ridge that runs roughly east-west through the property, making some areas really dramatic. It’s not flat as you might expect, between the Lagoon and Sengekontacket.

“You can really see the forces that were at work, where the water ran through and carved it.”

There are some points of biological interest, however; the wildlife includes six rare insects — five moths and a butterfly — and two rare plant species — sandplain blue-eyed grass and bushy rockrose.

The management plan envisages most of the usual land bank permitted activities, including hunting. The unusual one is camping.

“We put the proposed campsite where it is because it would be accessible by the bike path on County Road,” Ms. Russell said.

“I don’t envision it jam-packed with 50 cars. It will be primitive, with just water and toilets, grills over fires. Maybe one pump and one or two bathhouses. But no utility hook-ups. A state forest kind of campground,” she said.

“We are definitely talking about minimum improvements on the land.”

That is assuming the plan gets all the necessary approvals.

“The [land bank] board might yet change this. It’s just a general concept,” she said.

A public meeting to discuss the plan was scheduled for earlier this week, but was canceled because of bad weather. It has yet to be rescheduled.

Ms. Russell was keen to dispel some notions of what is on the agenda.

“Some people have written in and seem to think the plan is about public housing. But the plan doesn’t address anything to do with that. That’s really not what it’s about.”

The mistaken assumption was understandable, she said, given the contentious history of development proposals for the land, and given the fact that the land bank has entered an agreement with the town of Oak Bluffs for a land swap that would see the town exchange a landlocked 23-acre parcel in the middle of the preserve for a similar-sized piece elsewhere with road access.

But that proposed swap is still tangled in issues of title. It is in no way relevant to the management plan, except inasmuch as the plan would see a trail extended across the so-called “doughnut hole” of town-owned land, in anticipation of a later swap.