We are very excited to announce a few recent grants totaling over $1,000,000 to support the Brewer Brook Forest Preserve Project! This project is a collaboration between Hilltown Land Trust, Kestrel Land Trust, the MA Department of Fish and Game, and the Westhampton Conservation Commission to protect 1,033 acres of forest land with high ecological […]
AmeriCorps positions available at HLT!
Hilltown Land Trust is currently accepting applications for two positions through the TerraCorps Program (formerly MassLIFT – AmeriCorps). A Land Stewardship Coordinator and a Community Engagement Coordinator will both become a vital part of HLT’s team for the year. The 2017-18 program will run from August 28, 2017 through July 27, 2018 and will engage […]
Bird Habitat Assessment completed on the Stevens Property
By Tamsin Flanders, MassLIFT Land Stewardship Coordinator ’16-‘17 In 2016 HLT received a grant through the Foresters for the Birds Program (a partnership of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Massachusetts Audubon, and Mass Woodlands Institute) to revise the forest management plan for our Stevens property. The grant helped pay for a forester to […]
Tornado Cleanup at the Bradley Sanctuary
On February 25th a bad wind storm hit the hilltowns, centered around a tornado that touched down in Conway and Goshen, tearing roofs off a number of homes and damaging more with fallen trees. In other nearby towns, the storm caused power outages and more downed trees. Fortunately, no one was reported injured in the […]
