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The Vermont Land Trust was founded in 1977 by a group of citizens concerned about the rapidly accelerating development that threatened open space in Vermont. The founding group feared that state legislation Act 250 and local zoning was not strong enough to protect the rural character of the state.
Stowe Land Trust is a local land conservation nonprofit that was founded in 1987 and has conserved 35 properties and over 18 square kilometres (4500 acres), many of which are available to the public. One is Wiessner Woods, conserved by the trust in 1992 through a donation from the Wiessner family.
In the United States, the first conservation land trust organization was the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations, founded in 1891. [1] As of 2021, there were over 1,300 conservation land trusts in the United States, with 446 of these accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. [1] Some North American conservation land trusts:
The Northeast Wilderness Trust is a non-profit conservation organization based in Montpelier, Vermont, working to preserve and restore forest landscapes in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Its mission is to conserve forever-wild landscapes for nature and people. It was founded in 2002. [1]
The Public Land Corps was authorized by the National and Community Service Trust Act on May 27, 1993, H.R. 2328. The 21st Century Conservation Service Corps Act in 2019 allowed Public Land Corps to partner with more federal agencies on conservation and restoration projects and created the Indian Youth Service Corps within the Public Land Corps.
Kennebunkport / ˌ k ɛ n i ˈ b ʌ ŋ k ˌ p ɔːr t / is a resort town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,629 people at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It is part of the Portland – South Portland – Biddeford metropolitan statistical area .
Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge was established in 1997 to conserve, protect and enhance the abundance and diversity of native plant, fish and wildlife species and the ecosystems on which they depend throughout the 7,200,000-acre (29,000 km 2) Connecticut River watershed.
This is a list of state forests in the U.S. state of Vermont. Vermont state forests are managed by the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation.