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We Know You Love the Upper Valley.
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We provide conservation leadership, tools and expertise to permanently protect the working farms, forested ridges, wildlife habitat, water resources, trails and scenic landscapes that makes the Upper Valley a 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.
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UVLT focuses its mission in 45 Vermont and New Hampshire towns in the upper Connecticut River Valley.
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We’re a hardworking, homegrown group that depends on people like you. Over the past 34 years, we’ve protected over 500 parcels of land and more than 52,000 acres. Thousands of people have participated in these accomplishments and in the ongoing stewardship of conserved properties. It takes all of us, working together, to choose a vibrant, resilient and sustainable future for the Upper Valley — and to make it happen.
Indigenous People have cared for this land for centuries. The lands that the Upper Valley Land Trust owns, conserves, and works on, and the land on which we all live, are the traditional, ancestral, unceded homelands of the indigenous people of the Abenaki Nation, a tribe of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
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 honor with gratitude the land itself and the Abenaki people, past and present.
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🐾 Happy #fieldnotesfriday ! 🐾
This week our Stewardship team collected data from a wildlife camera we have on one of our conservation areas in the #uppervalley. We were delighted to see footage of all kinds of activity happening around this bobcat den 🐱! One of the behaviors we caught on camera was the `scent marking battle` happening between the bobcat and visiting coyote. Both are very territorial animals and like to use rocky outcroppings as dens. So we may be witnessing some coyote jealousy since the bobcat got to this cozy den first!
We are so happy to see all of this wildlife activity on our conserved land. It just reminds us how important it is to keep land conserved so we can continue to protect all of this great wildlife habitat! 🌳🐾
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Join Us for Wildlife Tracking THIS weekend!
March 30, 2025 | 10 am – 12 pm | Lyme Hill Conservation Area
Come on out and join the new Upper Valley Tracking Club for its second-ever field meetup hosted by the Upper Valley Food Coop and the Upper Valley Land Trust. This month, we’re headed to Lyme Hill Conservation Area for some Connecticut River-adjacent tracking – and there have been recent sightings of otter tracks (slides!) in the area, so we’re getting excited!
Designed as a free, community-oriented opportunity to learn and practice wildlife tracking, the Upper Valley Tracking Club invites both experienced trackers and newcomers to see what stories we might be able to put together during a couple hours in the local woods.
🍁Happy #fieldnotesfriday (on a Monday!) 🍁
This week a few staff members visited UVLT conserved property, Brackett Brook Farm, in #OrfordNH to celebrate #NHMapleWeekend! The Pease family has been farming on their 100 acres since 1866. Harry and Linda Pease continue to farm the land and collect sap in buckets from over 700 taps every spring! Harry was boiling sap all weekend and was happy to hand out fresh syrup samples to the constant visitors at the sugar house.
To learn more and find a local sugarhouse near you, check out:
🍁 @nhmapleproducers
🍁 @maplesyrupvermont
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