Hilltown Land Trust

Dedicated to protecting the working lands, native habitats and rural beauty of the Hilltowns since 1986

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What Land Should we Protect?

By Sally Loomis, HLT Executive Director   Before I worked for a land trust, I assumed that any land an owner was willing to donate for conservation ought to be protected. Why wouldn’t we want to conserve as much land as possible?   When I started my first job in land conservation, I quickly realized how complex this […]

Chesterfield Auction Update

Thanks to the intervention of a generous conservation buyer, the property near the Chesterfield Gorge along River Road will be conserved. The tremendous outpouring of community support for land conservation these past few weeks shows definitively that it is an issue that matters to many people in Chesterfield and the surrounding area. We want to […]

Chesterfield Land Auction Saturday

Four properties in Chesterfield are being auctioned off this Saturday, November 14th, three of which are important lands to conserve for public recreation, water and air quality, and wildlife habitat. One of these properties is on River Road, along the trail that runs along the East Branch of the Westfield River from the Chesterfield Gorge to the Knightville Dam where we hold the annual Gorge après Gorge 5k […]

What Does Open Space Mean to You?

You may have seen signs in several places around Chesterfield advertising a public auction of properties. Or you may have seen the article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette Monday. A number of individuals and local conservation organizations agree that three of the properties slated to go up for auction have features that make them valuable areas to […]