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Conservation Results: Members Count

December 27, 2013/in Uncategorized, What's New

With just a few days remaining in 2013, we have $20,599 to raise in order to meet our budget goals for the first six months of our fiscal year. Just […]

January 4th Hike will Explore Big Landscape

December 24, 2013/in Outdoor Activities, UVLT Conserved Lands, What's New

Put on your boots and grab your knapsack! Jason Berard and Doug Brown are planning a HIKE to celebrate and launch a new year of land conservation and stewardship. We’re […]

Over 300 Acres Conserved in Two Donations

December 24, 2013/in UVLT Conserved Lands, What's New

Amid the rain, fog and slush of the past several days, there wereÂ bright spots for land conservation! Landowners in Hartland and Lebanon donated conservation easements protecting over 300 acres […]

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.

Conservation Results: Members Count

January 4th Hike will Explore Big Landscape

Over 300 Acres Conserved in Two Donations

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