Vermont

Northern Green Mountains

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Active Program Area

The Northeast Wilderness Trust is working with US and Canadian partners to implement a regional landscape-scale conservation plan in the northern border area of Vermont. While the coalition has effectively utilized science to map conservation priorities, more work is needed to translate this vision into tangible, on-the-ground land protection. The coalition intends to protect roughly 40,000 contiguous acres…

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Babysitter Swamp

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Jericho and Richmond, Vermont
Completed Project

This 30-acre property has been the subject of intense wildlife study for more than thirty years. In 2003 it was purchased for permanent protection by naturalist and wildlife tracking expert Susan Morse, who partnered with the Northeast Wilderness Trust to place a forever-wild conservation easement on the property. Babysitter Swamp is named for the old growth hemlock…

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Anderson-Wells

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Lincoln, Vermont
Completed Project

The Northeast Wilderness Trust received a forever-wild easement on this 112-acre property in 2003. The property is part of the Colby Hill Ecological Project, started by the landowners in 1998, which conducts an annual ecological assessment. This property will provide important baseline ecological data for scientists who are studying the benefits of forever-wild land conservation. The property is located in the foothills …

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Dykema Property

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Guilford, Vermont
Completed Project

The Northeast Wilderness Trust received a donated, forever-wild easement on this 212-acre family property in 2004. The tract is largely forested, rocky and rugged, and dominated by hemlock and hardwoods. The forests here were once used for pasture and logging but have recovered to relatively high-integrity forest ecosystems. They are part of a fairly intact lower elevation forested…

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