New Hampshire's open spaces and productive lands are rapidly being lost. Since its inception, the Bedford Land Trust has been concerned with identifying ways to help preserve Bedford's rural character and unique qualities. This includes providing access to Bedford's natural assets, educating the public about land preservation,
establishing conservation areas for wildlife habitat, resource protection and passive public recreation.
The Bedford Land Trust is a private non-profit organization. It is a separate entity from the Town of Bedford. However, we do hold conservation easements on some town owned properties, such as the Benedictine Land, Joppa Hill Farm and others.
Our mission statement is:
"to protect and conserve strategic parcels of land in the Bedford, NH area, to preserve our rural character, and to provide protection for water resources and wildlife habitat for the benefit of the people in Bedford and the surrounding area."
What we do:
By holding conservation easements we help landowners protect their properties. We also are the holders of some easements that have been required by the NH Department of Environmental Services as mitigation for environmental impacts caused by development in town. We currently have a stewardship program in place that monitors all the properties we protect. We are also working on improving trails and making maps so that residents can enjoy hiking in some of the beautiful properties in Bedford.
We now have printable trail maps for the Van Loan Preserve and the Benedictine Land.
Your support helps us meet our operating, stewardship and land protection costs.
Thank you for your support! UPCOMING EVENTS:
Clean Up Day at the Van Loan Preserve - Saturday, May 3. Our Trustees and Advisors will be working on cleaning and sprucing up the trails at the Van Loan Preserve. If you want to help please come join us! Meet in the Muller Park parking lot on North Amherst Rd. at 10 am. Bring work gloves, loppers, shears, etc., if you have them. Call or email us with questions. 472-2216, or bedfordlandtrust@hotmail.com.
Heavy rain cancels the event.
Nature Hike on the Joppa Hill Property - We will be working with the Amherst Land Trust to host a walk on new trails on the Joppa Hill Farm in both Bedford and Amherst. We hope to schedule the walk for early June. More information will follow. Keep an eye on the local papers and on our Web site.
Photographs? Do you have any photos of the properties we protect that you would like to share with us? Send them and with your permission, we will post them on the Web site and/or put them in our newsletter. You and your children in the photos only make them better! Thanks!
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