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Native Northeastern Birds and Climate Vulnerability

May 8, 2024

The brown and creme colored Eastern Phoebe perched on a branch with a blurred wooded background.

This April, Hilltown Land Trust and the Western Mass Chapter of the Feminist Bird Club, the Antiracist Collective of Avid Birders, held a Gentle Bird Walk at the DAR State Forest in Goshen. Lead by experienced and highly knowledgeable birder, John Green, a group of over fifteen headed out on an early morning walk down […]

160 Acres of Wetlands, Trails, & Glacial Boulders Conserved

March 30, 2024

A sunrise over distant hills casts beams of light across a foggy wetland,.

A Smith professor, nuclear physicist, and passionate lover of the land, Margaret Waggoner always planned to conserve her beloved 160 acres of forest and wetlands in Ashfield and Goshen.

Celebrating the Last Days of Winter with Maple Syrup

March 29, 2024

This March, Hilltown Land Trust (HLT) came together with the J.S. Bryant School and High Five Books at Two Mamas Farm, home of HLT’s conserved Waterfall Trail, in Cummington for a Maple Tour and Tasting event. To celebrate the last days of winter, we joined farmer Pepper at her sugarbush and small-scale sustainable maple farm […]

Planning for a Resilient Mill River

March 28, 2024

A man looks down from a concrete and metal road bridge towards a channeled river below.

Last year, climate change-driven flooding wreaked havoc on homes, farms, roads, bridges, and livelihoods across the Northeast. In October, the town of Williamsburg embarked on a two-year $682,085 state Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness action grant to study flood resilience in the Upper Mill River watershed. HLT is tasked with engaging the Williamsburg community and surrounding Hilltowns […]

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