Northeast
About the Northeast Region
The seven Northeast states of New England and New York are the birthplace of land conservation in this country. Home to 35% of the country’s nearly 1,700 land trusts, the Northeast represents great tradition and accomplishment among land trusts of all sizes in the region. By 2005 national, local, and state conservation groups saved 8.47 million acres in the Northeast, 12.13% of the area’s total land mass. Learn more about the Northeast.
How We Help
The Land Trust Alliance works across the Northeast with land trusts of all shapes and sizes to provide a host of tools, training, support and inspiration to better enable their success in protecting the air we breathe, water we drink and food we eat.
Alliance programs in the Northeast include:
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New York State Conservation Partnership Program - provides competitive matching grants to Alliance-member land trusts in New York.
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Maine Coast Protection Initiative - a large scale initiative to protect the character of Maine's coast, in which the Alliance is a principal partner.
Regional Conservation Success
Photo by Craig Line, courtesy Vermont Land Trust
Vermont Dairy Farm Saved
Molly Davies remembers driving past the Chandler Pond Farm and admiring its enormous, cupola-topped barn. "When I heard it was up for sale," she says, "my first thought was, 'Oh no, another Vermont dairy farm bites the dust.'" But Molly acted quickly, selling her family's ski house in Stowe so she could buy the farm as a working dairy farm for the right family. Read more
Read more success stories from the Northeast region
We'd Love to Hear From You
112 Spring Street, Ste 205
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
(518) 587-0774
(518) 587-9586 Fax
northeast@lta.org
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