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 carried out baseline documentation reports in connection with Conservation Restrictions all over the state. Recipients of BDRs have included Kestrel Land Trust, Dover Land Conservation Trust, the City of Fitchburg, Seekonk Land Conservation Trust, Mass Audubon, Mass DCR,…
During 2023, Pioneer Valley Planning Commission contracted with CW to help lay out a new route over Gobble Mountain in Chester as a major connector to the long-distance Highlands Footpath. The Highlands trail is a winding connector that will connect…
Conservation Works, LLC recently completed a trail improvement project in Easthampton, MA. The projects included tree removal, drainage improvements, bog-bridge installation and footbridge upgrades on a trail connecting two schools. Conservation Works met with the client to assess the trail status…
After nearly 8 years of planning and fundraising, the spectacular new Hitchcock Center building at Hampshire College is ready for occupancy and for the Center’s grand opening on October 1, 2016. The building is one of the first Living…
During June and July of 2016, Conservation Works coordinated a thorough survey of invasive plants and rare plant communities on the 2,000-acre Mount Tom Reservation in Easthampton and Holyoke for the Mass Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). The survey…