Land We Helped Preserve

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Land Preservation Coordinator Damon Oscarson searches for amphibians in a vernal pool at the Eastwoods Preserve in Pound Ridge.
Westchester Land Trust has helped fulfill the promise of local open space ballot propositions by working closely with town, county, state and other governments to buy important lands.
 
Since 2000, buying land has been a key part of local environmental protection efforts in Westchester. Thirteen communities have bought at least 1,976 acres of open space, spending $31.5 million in municipal money and combining it with $46.9 million from New York State, Westchester County, New York City, and private sources.

Westchester Land Trust has played an important role in most of these acquisitions.

You can find a town by town summary of local acquisitions and money earmarked for buying land here.

Here are accounts of several of our recent and favorite partnership acquisitions:

Bird Homestead, Rye

Eastwoods Preserve, Pound Ridge

Leon Levy Preserve, South Salem

Angle Fly Preserve, Somers

Old Field Preserve, Waccabuc

Here's a town-by-town list of properties we helped protect. Click on a name to go directly to projects in town further down the list:

Bedford

Preserve Acres Road
Leatherman's Ridge 33.95 acres Dwight Lane*
Ridge Road 13 acres Ridge Road

Cortlandt

Preserve Acres Road
Hemlock Hill Farm 116 acres Croton Avenue

Hudson Highlands State Park/
Angell tract

 80 acres South Mountain Pass

Greenburgh

Preserve Acres Road
Gracemere Park 17.4 acres Gracemere Avenue, Tarrytown
Neperan Road Park 2.4 acres Neperan Road, Tarrytown
Taxter Ridge 200.55 acres Taxter Rd & Sheldon Ave.

Total in Greenburgh 220.35 acres

North Castle

 

Preserve Acres Road
Armonk Bowling Alley 7 acres Old Route 22

New Castle

Preserve Acres Road
Burden Preserve 97 acres Route 128

New Rochelle

Preserve Acres Road
Glenwood Lake 4.5 acres Glen Car Avenue

Pound Ridge

Preserve Acres Road
Eastwoods Preserve 48 acres Eastwoods Road*

Rye

Preserve Acres Road
Rye Nursery 7 acres Stuyvesant Road
Bird Homestead
 1 acre Milton Road

Somers

Preserve Acres Road
Angle Fly Preserve 654 acres Primrose Street
Stuart's Farm 170 acres Granite Springs Road

Yorktown

Preserve Acres Road
Solomon's Farm 34 acres Quinlan Street

Total Acres 1538.8

*We hold a conservation easement on Leatherman's Ridge and the Eastwoods Preserve