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A Celebration of Land Conservation

June 29, 2022/in Featured, What's New

UVLT’s Annual Celebration of Land Conservation returned in early June to Hilltop conservation area in Plainfield, NH. The celebration included remarks by the family of Edith Taylor, and an award presentation for “Conservation Leadership.”

In the Dirt at the Brookmead Garden

June 29, 2022/in UVLT Conserved Lands, What's New

Yesterday we pulled black the plastic that has been protecting and warming the soil in our food pantry garden at Brookmead Conservation Area. We planted 400 row feet of potatoes […]

Old is New, On the River

June 15, 2022/in Featured, UVLT Conserved Lands, What's New

In October 1987, UVLT accepted its first conservation easement, a deed that protected 28 acres of land with about a mile of frontage on the meandering Sugar River in Croydon. […]

Our Mission

We provide conservation leadership, tools and expertise to permanently protect the working farms, forested ridges, wildlife habitat, water resources, trails and scenic landscapes that surround residential areas and commercial centers and make the Upper Valley a truly special place to live. We work with local conservation commissions and volunteer groups to identify and prioritize land conservation opportunities. We provide technical assistance and conservation solutions for landowners. We steward permanent agreements that conserve key properties forever.

UVLT focuses its mission in 45 Vermont and New Hampshire towns in the upper Connecticut River Valley. UVLT is a sponsor member of the Land Trust Alliance, an organization that promotes land conservation by providing advocacy and professional resources to over 1600 land trusts nationwide. UVLT has adopted LTA’s Standards and Practices for land trust operations. In 2012, The Land Trust Accreditation Commission awarded accredited status to UVLT; the seal of Accreditation shows that UVLT has met the national standards for excellence to uphold the public trust and ensure that its conservation efforts are permanent.

Acknowledgement of Abenaki Lands

Indigenous People have cared for this land for centuries. The land that the Upper Valley Land Trust owns, conserves, and works on, and the land on which we all live, was first stewarded and cared for by indigenous people of the Abenaki Nation, a tribe of the Wabanaki Confederacy. These are the traditional, ancestral, unceded lands of Abenaki people, taken from them by violence. Current day non-indigenous people have benefited from that violence, and that is a history that we are reckoning with.

Indigenous People are not gone, they live here and are a part of the past, present, and future of our land and our communities. We know this acknowledgement is a small step in a bigger process of greater awareness of Native sovereignty and cultural rights. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the Abenaki people, past and present.

A Celebration of Land Conservation

In the Dirt at the Brookmead Garden

Old is New, On the River

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