Welcome to the Southington Land Trust
We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1973 that seeks to preserve nature in our community.
What is a Land Trust?
A land trust or land conservancy is a community-based, nonprofit organization that actively works to permanently conserve land. A land trust is separate from Open Space and not run by the Town. In some cases, land trusts acquire land outright. They also partner to conserve land that remains the property of willing landowners using a tool called a conservation easement. Land trusts also manage or restore land once it has been conserved. (https://landtrustalliance.org/why-land-matters/land-conservation/about-land-trusts)
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Next Meeting:
Thursday, November 21, 2024, at the Southington Land Trust Office, 76 North Main Street, entrance in back. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m.
Southington Land Trust welcomed an invitation from CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection’s (DEEP) Peter Picone to join a group of volunteers in a meadow seed sowing project at the CT DEEP’s Goshen Wildlife Management Area. A portion of the 627-acre property was seeded as test plots for bee and pollinator studies with The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) entomologists Tracey Zarillo and Dr. Kelsey Fisher.
Land Trusts, Pollinator Pathways, CFPA members, and other organizations, came in from East Lyme, Manchester, West Hartford and Woodbury to volunteer.
The SLCT was invited to present for a Biology class at Central Connecticut State University on October 3rd, to share information about what land trusts are and the importance of them. We brought along the Connecticut Land Conservation Council to partner with us on this one. Great opportunity for us to engage with the youth and hopefully we inspired them to join their local land trust. 🎓🌳
Photo L to R: CLCC Community Conservation Coordinator Jovan Bryan, SLCT Board Secretary Sabraé Boisvert, and SLCT Vice President Stan Prushinski.
