Long Mountain: View From Peet Hill



The Weantinoge Heritage
A Regional Land Trust Protecting the Rural Landscape of Northwestern Connecticut Since 1965.




PO Box 242, New Milford, Connecticut. 860.355.3500.

Celebrating 41 years and 8000 acres of land conservation in the Northwest Hills.

ATTENTION: TORY'S CAVE TO REOPEN ON MAY 15 - see Notes and Happenings, below.

Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust

is a non-profit conservation organization

dedicated to the protection of wilderness and natural resources

in Northwestern Connecticut.

We presently have properties and easements in the communities of:
Litchfield, Morris, Goshen, Warren, New Milford, Bridgewater, Roxbury,
Brookfield, Sherman, Washington, Torrington, Harwinton, Winsted, New Hartford,
Colebrook, Norfolk, Barkhamsted, Canaan, Salisbury/Lakeville,
Bethlehem, Falls Village, Sharon, Kent, Newtown, and Cornwall.

The trust is available to help you realize your dream of conserving your or your family's land.
We offer a seasoned, knowledgeable, and professional staff that is just a phone call away.

The trust needs your financial support. As the largest land trust in Connecticut (in terms of holdings)
, our work is complex and spans many realms. Please think of us as you conduct your charitable giving by donating to an
organization that provides a tangible return on your charitable investment: the land.

To reach Weantinoge,
please call us today:
860.355.3500

or write to us at:

Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust
PO Box 242
New Milford, CT 06776

You can email us by clicking here.

NOTES and HAPPENINGS

2007 Was A Banner Year for the Trust!
Weantinoge adds 970 acres of new preserves in Northwestern Connecticut. Many thanks to our wonderful donors and supporters.

The 2007 Tally:
18 Properties
970 Acres in Total (224 acres owned in fee, 746 acres in conservation easements)
517 acres of farms
376 acres of forever wild forestlands
182 acres of wetlands (includes field, stream, and forest wetlands)

More to follow....

New website due this year!

ATTENTION! TRAIL AND CAVE RE-OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT

The Tory's Cave Preserve in New Milford will re-open on May 15 after a winter closure
due to the epidemic of White Nose Syndrome in bats across New England. We will again close the cave in the fall.

For more information on WNS of bats, click here.

Please respect the sensitivity of the cave that is aimed at protecting ecosystem-critical bat populations.

For the purposes of tracking usage and avoiding scheduling conflicts, we ask that all groups contact the
trust's office manager, Lexi Pelletier, by phone (860-355-3500) or by email in advance of your visit.

For other questions regarding the cave, please contact our ecologist here.


A small cascade tumbles into Tory's Cave, just as it has for the last 10,000 years.

Clover hats are all the rage this year!

A red eft tries out the latest in rain gear on a Weantinoge preserve.

A basking bobcat in a Litchfield preserve.

Here is a sampling of what we have been working on over the past year.....

One of our newest preserves: the Nickoll Conservation Easement on Cobble Brook in Kent (95 acres).
The trust now protects over 400 acres in the Cobble Brook Watershed.

Cobble Brook on the new Nickoll Preserve, Kent (2005)


Our newest preserve (2006). The MacLaren Conservation Easement in the Salmon Kill Valley, Salisbury, protects this 20-acre wooded height-of-land and 1000' of Salmon Creek.
The Appalachian Trail's Billy's View viewshed includes this forested knob and the rest of the MacLaren's Whipoorwhill Farm.

MacLaren Preserve, Salisbury


An outstanding 2005 land gift of Harold Pennington on Lake Waramaug protects a key parcel on the north shore and a spectacular hillside glade.

Pennington, 2005 Preserve


Adjacent to the Pennington Preserve, the Allured Preserve (also gifted in 2005), protects one of the most famous views (and viewsheds) in the Northwest Highlands.

Allured Preserve, Lake Waramaug


In 2005, Weantinoge gained a $50,000 habitat restoration grant from the USDA for invasive species work on easement land at the historic and scenic Chapel Hill Farm.
The hayfield at top center was the site of our 2005 picnic/party... many thanks to landowners Juri and Toni Ripinsky of Merryall, New Milford.

Chapel Hill Farm, Merryall, New Milford
In 2005, Weantinoge acquired 22 acres of the outstanding Thomas Peardon Farm in Bridgewater, with its spectacular views of the Housatonic Range.
This is the first phase of our conservation work on the property.

Peardon Farm, Bridgewater


PLEASE NOTE!

We invite you to visit again soon: a newly designed website is coming in late 2007!

For land conservation, membership, volunteer, newsletter, and donation information, please send email.


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