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A Good Summer at Smith Pond Shaker Forest

September 14, 2017/in Stewardship News, UVLT Conserved Lands, What's New

We’ve been busy at Smith Pond Shaker Forest! In July staff and volunteers spent a day on a remote peninsula clearing out debris from an old cabin. Complete with a […]

Finding Smith Pond

September 14, 2017/in UVLT Conserved Lands, What's New

If you would like to visit Smith Pond Shaker Forest, you can find access via Smith Pond Road from exit 15 on Interstate 89. Go up the hill a […]

BioBlitz Begins

June 16, 2017/in Stewardship News, UVLT Conserved Lands, What's New

You can help UVLT identify and inventory the natural resources on our Lyme Hill Conservation Area! Weâ€™ve launched a year-long bioblitz! On June 10th, 16 enthusiastic naturalists gathered at Lyme […]

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 Good Summer at Smith Pond Shaker Forest

Finding Smith Pond

BioBlitz Begins

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