Growing Places and North County Land Trust Grow a Neighborhood Vision

Growing Places and North County Land Trust Partner with Busy Bees Preschool and Neighborhood to Build Multigenerational Learning Gardens Growing Places (GP), partnering with North County Land Trust (NCLT), was recently awarded a $30,000 grant from the Amelia Peabody Foundation to work with neighborhood stakeholders, including Busy Bees Preschool in Fitchburg, to build a multigenerational … Read more

NCLT Partners with Sterling Land Trust on the Gaw Property for Wekepeke Brook Protection in Sterling

Thanks to the generous donation of Vern and Vikki Gaw of Sterling, North County Land Trust recently acquired a Conservation Restriction on 8 acres of land that will now be open for passive recreation. The Gaws donated their land to Sterling Land Trust who in turn, donated a CR to NCLT. Straddling the Sterling/Lancaster town … Read more

Fitchburg’s Northern Watershed – Kirby Property

Fitchburg Reservoir

In June 2014, NCLT completed the conservation of 163 acres of land in Ashburnham and Ashby, within the City of Fitchburg’s northern water supply watershed. The City of Fitchburg now owns 110 acres of land for water supply protection. NCLT has acquired our newest public access property, the 53-acres Kirby Conservation Area in Ashburnham.

Quabbin Reservoir to Wachusett Mountain Forest legacy Project

Quabbin Reservoir to Wachusett Reservoir

Since 2013, North County Land Trust and our conservation partners have been working to conserve nearly 4,200 acres in the region that lies between the Quabbin Reservoir in the west and Mount Wachusett in the east. The Quabbin Reservoir to Wachusett Mountain Forest Legacy Project (Q2W) will create a conserved landscape that permanently protects drinking … Read more