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Celebrating Our Volunteers

March 29, 2023

In March, Hilltown Land Trust staff and TerraCorps members hosted twenty-five people for our annual Volunteer Celebration in the event space at the Chesterfield General Store. Volunteers are essential to achieving HLT’s mission of land conservation and stewardship. From clearing branches off trails, to taking photographs and registering runners and walkers at the Gorge après […]

Request for Proposals

February 22, 2023

HLT logo depicting a mama bear and her cub framed by trees in silhouette in the foreground, and a view of three hills in the background.

Hilltown Land Trust (HLT) is a small land conservation organization responsible for the stewardship of 4,200 acres of conserved land in 13 rural Hilltowns in western Massachusetts. In addition to our land conservation mission, we seek to deepen the connection between people and land by providing public access to conserved land and offering a range […]

Hanging Out With HLT’s New Arrivals

September 23, 2022

Katie, Tiffany, Sally, and Tim pose between the halves of a split boulder.

When HLT’s newest staff and TerraCorps members revealed that they were both rock climbers, we took the opportunity to ham it up at this glacial erratic boulder on a soon-to-be-conserved* property in the Hilltowns. Please join us in welcoming our new Office Manager Tiffany Thibodeau and TerraCorps Land Stewardship Coordinator Tim Antrim-Cashin to Hilltown Land […]

Want to Decrease Stress & Boost Your Immune System? Try Forest Bathing!

September 28, 2020

Nadine, reclining in the woods

by Nadine Mazzola, Award-Winning Author of Forest Bathing with your Dog and Certified Forest Therapy Guide Around me the trees stir in their leavesand call out, ‘Stay awhile.’ -“When I am among the trees,” poem by Mary Oliver It is difficult to explain forest bathing in words alone. It is experiential and sensory. It is […]

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Year of the Salamander! Vernal Pool Exploration
03 May
May 3rd, 2014    
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
High Rige Farm
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Join us for Part 2 of our vernal pools series in partnership with The Trustees of Reservations! Explore a potential vernal pool in Williamsburg. We are [...]
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Companion Planting with SHAEC
07 May
May 7th, 2014    
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
SHAEC at Gateway Regional High School
Explore the techniques of companion planting and inter-planting so that you can start thinking about how to improve your garden health and harvest. Com prepared [...]
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Invasive Species Pull
09 May
May 9th, 2014    
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Bullitt Reservation
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In partnership with The Trustees. Help protect Bullitt Reservation's beautiful forests and grasslands by seeking out and uprooting harmful invasive species. Training in identifying invasive [...]
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