projects like Barre Town Forest

The Trust for Public Land is  working  to preserve 469 acres of the former Ascutney Mountain Ski Resort as an addition to the West Windsor Town Forest.

A mix of forestland, wetlands, and open meadow, the Blueberry Lake property provides outstanding opportunities for recreation, including swimming, fishing, hiking, ice skating and cross-country skiing.  And its location, adjacent to the Roxbury State Forest, offers prime habitat for songbirds, black bear, and other wildlife.

The Trust for Public Land helped establish the Brushwood Community Forest in the Upper Connecticut River Valley, connecting the Fairlee and Bradford Municipal Forests and offering opportunities for sustainable timber harvesting, recreation, and providing significant wildlife habitat and watershed protection.

Our work with the City of Burlington began with the purchase of land on Lake Champlain from Central Vermont Railway that included an abandoned rail line and  continued with work on the Burlington Open Space Protection Plan and culminated in the creation of Mayes Landing, a new park on the waterfront along the Winooski River.

TPL led a coalition to save the Phenn Basin property in the Mad River Valley and add 2,700 acres to Camel's Hump State Park, Vermont.

Set in the foothills of the Green Mountains and the fast-growing town of Williston, Vermont, the 393-acre Catamount Outdoor Family Center attracts more than 20,000 bikers, skiers, and hikers per year who take advantage of more than twenty miles of trails that meander through a diverse landscape of open meadows and forested ridges.

The Long Trail—the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the United States—runs for 272 miles along the crest of the Green Mountains from Massachusetts to Canada. Only 6.5 miles of the trail have no legal protection. One of these unprotected sections runs through the 167-acre Codding Hollow property in Johnson and Waterville. After a nearly 30-year wait, we have the opportunity to permanently conserve it as an addition to Long Trail State Forest.

Community forests are based on the principles of sustainable development and community-based natural resource management and promote community vitality and economic well-being.