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SVT Stewardship Staff and Ted Elliman toured the habitat restoration area at Smith Conservation Land in early June 2025.
Ted Elliman toured the habitat-management area of SVT's Smith Conservation Land in early June 2025. Ted joined members of the SVT Stewardship staff in assessing the results of our efforts to combat invasives and allow native plants to regerminate. Left to right: Jane Maloney, Ted Elliman, Dan Stimson, Sam Rogers. Photo by Laura Mattei.

Great Success at Smith

SVT's Stewardship staff is delighted to report that our habitat-restoration efforts at Smith Conservation Land in Littleton are yielding great results...

Weed Warriors at Smith Conservation Land, October 2024

Weed Warriors Support Smith Restoration

During an early October workday at SVT’s Smith Conservation Land in Littleton, a group of Weed Warrior volunteers got down in the dirt to dig out the...

A gray catbird at SVT's Smith Conservation Land in Littleton, photographed by Jon Turner.

Birds at SVT's Smith Conservation Land

Jon Turner photographed a gray catbird, a hermit thrush, a red-winged blackbird, and tree swallows at SVT's Smith Conservation Land in Littleton.
A bobcat in Littleton, photographed with an automatically triggered wildlife camera by Chuck Faraci.

Bobcat in Littleton

Chuck Faraci used his automatically triggered wildlife camera to photograph a bobcat in Littleton.
Photo by Louis Calisi.

Habitat Management at Smith Conservation Land

SVT is restoring high-quality habitat in areas that have been damaged by Asian bittersweet.
A patch of straw with of S. tsugae beetles clipped to a hemlock tree

Fighting Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

SVT has released three colonies of beetles at our Smith Conservation Land in Littleton in an attempt to control the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) that...

A pink lady's slipper at SVT's Smith Conservation Land in Littleton, photographed by Michele Girard.

Pink Lady's Slipper at SVT's Smith Conservation Land

Michele Girard photographed a pink lady's slipper at SVT's Smith Conservation Land in Littleton.
A black-and-white warbler at SVT's Smith Conservation Land in Littleton, photographed by Jon Turner.

Black-and-White Warbler at SVT's Smith Conservation Land in Littleton

Jon Turner photographed a black-and-white warbler at SVT's Smith Conservation Land in Littleton.
An American black bear, photographed with an automatically triggered wildlife camera by Chuck Faraci.

Bear in Littleton

Chuck Faraci used his automatically triggered wildlife camera to photograph this American black bear in Littleton.
A yellow-bellied sapsucker at Smith Conservation Land in Littleton, photographed by Emily Szczypek.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at SVT's Smith Conservation Land in Littleton

Emily Szczypek photographed this yellow-bellied sapsucker at SVT's Smith Conservation Land in Littleton.
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