The North Castle Town Board voted unanimously on Wednesday, January 28,
to fund almost half the purchase of the 30-acre Dubos property, an
acquisition that will help protect Mount Kisco's
drinking water reservoir.
Westchester Land Trust is working with a coalition of community advocates and government agencies to protect a beautiful historic site with access to Long Island Sound in Rye.
Westchester Land Trust protected 510 acres in 2008, through conservation
easements, donations, and partnerships with government agencies and other land
preservation organizations. The 510 acres means that we have worked to protect
a total of 6,147 acres.
Westchester Land Trust has been officially accredited by an
independent commission of land preservation experts, one of the just 39 out of
1,700 land trusts nationwide to be approved in the first round of accreditation
review.
- Westchester Wilderness Walk, our 150-acre preserve in Pound Ridge, was featured on the front page of the Westchester section of the New York Times on Sunday.
- Westchester Land Trust has moved to its new headquarters at Sugar Hill Farm, 403 Harris Road, Bedford Hills. Our phone number is the same as always, 914 241 6346.
Westchester Land Trust's seventh
annual photo show, featuring the best work of more than 50 photographers from
around the county, will be held from November 7 through 13 at the Bedford
Historical Hall, in Bedford
Village.
- Visitors to our website might not know it yet, but we have a new blog, called The Four Corners. Just what the world needs, you're probably thinking -- another blog!
Westchester Land Trust is one of 13 local, regional and
national land trusts being honored by Scenic Hudson for protecting important
lands throughout the Hudson
Valley.
The Bedford Environmental Summit was a tremendous success. Read all about it in the New York Times (