Vermont Land Trust Inc

Investing in placeto strengthen connections between people and land, catalyze farm and forest businesses, and broaden land access, we own land for short or long periods of time. Today, we own four flagship properties and a handful of other properties that bring people on to land. These places support community gardens, multi-use trails, agricultural enterprises, forestry demonstration projects, and educational opportunities. Programming on these lands is done in close collaboration with local schools, businesses, and volunteers. Additionally, to advance affordable access to farmland, we sometimes buy and transfer farmland using conservation as a tool to make land more affordable for the next generation of farmers. Using this approach, we have helped over 100 farmers buy land and grow their businesses.

The brewster uplands conservation trust is an entity that supports the management of 1,000+ acres for public access, farming and educational purposes.

Atlas timberland projectthe atlas timberlands project is a joint undertaking of the vermontland trust and the nature conservancy. Together, the two organizationsown and manage approximately 5,230 acres of timberland in the northerngreen mountains. The management of this land provides direct experiencewith the challenges of owning and managing timberland for economic andbiodiversity values. This experience has a direct impact on our abilityto understand and address concerns of owners of conserved timberland.all of the land is open to the public for hiking, hunting, and othernon-motorized recreation.

Vermont forest carbonvermont forest carbon is a pilot project to aggregate small, seperatelyowned, individual parcels of forest land for carbon storagesequestration to provide a broader set of landowners access to carbon markets.