Conservation Works heads west! Last month, our own Pete Westover (and son Tim) joined a group of 7th graders from the Robinson School in Lowell, MA on their “Expedition Yellowstone” adventure—a week spent exploring the wildlife, geology, and wonder around…
Great news for local farmland! 🌱 Williamstown voters just approved a new Agricultural Preservation Fund—starting with $25,000 from the Community Preservation Fund. The fund launches with $25,000 from the Community Preservation Fund’s Open Space & Recreation budget and is believed…
Sarah Gardner, a Conservation Works partner and Williams College professor, was featured recently in a Berkshire Edge article highlighting the growing farm crisis in Massachusetts - driven by fewer farms, rising costs, and limited support for farmers. She describes challenges…
Conservation Works is delighted to welcome an incredible group of experienced and talented new partners to CW, all of them profiled in detail on the website.
Under Dick O’Brien’s and Andy Vecchio’s direction and tireless persistence, the CW trail crew worked through 2023 to complete more than 600 feet of beautiful new boardwalk at the Framingham property of the Native Plant Trust, capped by a state-of-the-art,…
CW has recently assisted a wide range of conservation landowners in obtaining funding from the CLTC program for the donation of Conservation Restrictions that are now held by land trusts and towns around the state. CRs on important properties in…
CW has engaged for several years in work with the Native Land Conservancy and a number of Indigenous nations around the Commonwealth toward land rematriation and future Native stewardship of land. Land on Chappaquiddick Island, land on Cape Cod and…
CW, particularly Chris Curtis, is in its 7th year of work with the Town of Deerfield, assisting the Town with its climate change preparedness through several rounds of state MVP grants totaling more than $2 million. And this year, CW…
Under a contract with the Appalachian Mountain Club, CW completed a comprehensive survey of hundreds of land parcels along the 93 miles of the NET in Massachusetts to identify properties in need of trail easements or other protections with the…
CW has taken on the fascinating challenge of preparing ecological management plans for the beautiful, 58-acre Elaine and Philip Beals Preserve in Southborough (following in the footsteps of the late Whit Beals), and the 207-acre R.D.Wray Foundation land in Rehoboth…