Landscape Conservation
Mount Grace has conserved more than 20,294 acres with more than 228 distinct landowners working through our landscape-scale conservation program. Combining resources and working with a variety of state and local partners, we have been able to achieve tremendous results with significant impacts to create vast wildlife habitat corridors, protect water supplies, and safe-guard scenic vistas and recreational uses.
Coordinating hundreds of landowners and partners creates challenges, but the impact is far greater than any one project alone. Through collaboration, individual landowners can amplify their conservation goals, helping to create lasting benefits for their communities and the region as a whole.
The following three projects highlight the impact of our landscape-scale conservation program:
Hawes Hill Conservation Corridor
More than 800 acres of connected farms, forests, wetlands, and streams in Barre are permanently protected, strengthening a vital wildlife corridor that links conserved lands from the Quabbin Reservoir to the Prince River Wildlife Management Area.
Gales Brook Landscape Partnership
The Greater Gales Brook Conservation Project permanently protects 750 acres across 13 parcels in Warwick, Orange, and Royalston, expanding wildlife corridors and strengthening ecosystem resilience in the Millers River watershed.
The Tully Initiative
Mount Grace worked with a host of state partners and more than 100 deedholders to protect 9,100 acres in Athol, Orange, Royalston, and Warwick through the largest multi-partner land protection project in Massachusetts history.
If you and your neighbors are interested in hearing about what a neighborhood project could look like, please contact Director of Conservation Dave Small at 978-248-2043 or small@mountgrace.org.
