Land Protection

SVT collaborates with private landowners, local land trusts, and municipal, state, and federal agencies to protect land for wildlife habitat, passive recreation, agriculture, and forestry.

We place a priority on protecting areas with diverse plant life, healthy soils, clean water, and essential wildlife habitat. Our work protects the health of the region, its scenic beauty, and its agricultural heritage. Learn more about conservation options.

Current Land Protection Projects

Donation Information

Your gift to a specific SVT land protection project will cover a variety of associated costs such as the fully allocated cost of staff time, transaction costs, and a contribution to the long-term land stewardship expenses and legal defense to protect the conservation values of any SVT property. Your donation may help cover any previously incurred expenses connected with this project. Any funds raised beyond what is needed for the specific land protection project will be allocated to future similar conservation efforts.

Multi-Town Initiatives

Scarlet tanager

High Ridge Initiative

The Towns of Harvard, Littleton, and Boxborough intersect along a ridge that spans thousands of acres of ecologically rich lands. We call this area the “High Ridge.” A mosaic of...
Wet meadow at Golas Farm, Boylston

Tri-Town Landscape Protection Project

In 2014, SVT initiated the Tri-Town Landscape Protection Project, an effort to protect at least 500 acres of the region’s most ecologically and recreationally important land. Working with the Towns...