SVT is working with the Metacomet Land Trust to permanently conserve a 107-acre forested property along North Street in Upton. You can help.
The Land
The Town-owned Forest Heights property is contiguous with more than 450 acres of protected conservation land, stretching from Pell Farm on Soap Hill Road in Grafton north to Metacomet’s Rugelleski Woods Preserve near the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Forest Heights features a mixed pine and hardwood forest with several trails running throughout. It also features important wetland, vernal pool, and aquatic buffer habitats, and it is traversed by headwater streams that flow into Warren Brook and Miscoe Brook. The biodiverse habitats make this property a high priority for conservation.
The Conservation Effort
The Town has agreed to sell a conservation restriction on the land to Metacomet Land Trust (MLT) and SVT. The CR will expand the existing conservation corridor and will ensure that Forest Heights is permanently protected as forest and remains accessible to the public forever.
The CR purchase price and project costs are being covered by $200,000 from SVT, a $220,000 Forest Reserve Grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and $220,000 from MLT.
How You Can Help
Please help protect this land! MLT still needs to raise $70,000 to reach its $220,000 goal and permanently protect this land by early 2026.
Your contribution, in any amount, will help protect this land forever. Please visit the MLT website, where you can learn more about this wonderful property and play a part in its conservation.