April 11, 2019

#LoveYourCTLandTrust Featuring Connecticut's Amazing Land Trusts

2019 Excellence in Conservation Organization Award

Heritage Land Preservation Trust Coe Brass Dam Preservation Project

The Heritage Land Preservation Trust (HPLT) was honored by CLCC for its preservation of the historic Coe Brass Dam in the City of Torrington. Located along both sides on the West Branch of the Naugatuck River, the 12-acre site includes the dam, a gate house and a gorgeous sluiceway. HPLT has done an outstanding job enhancing the site -- including clearing the area of invasive brush and creating a park and benches on the eastern side -- preserving open space, providing public use, and restoring an important historical location for city residents and trail users...

2019 Katchen Coley Award for Excellence in Conservation

L eavenworth "Lem" P. Sperry, Jr. Middlebury Land Trust

When growing up in the 1920s and 1930s, now almost a century ago, Lem Sperry particularly loved swimming, fishing, skating, and spending time in a rowboat on a pond his grandfather had created along Straits Turnpike in Middlebury. It is not surprising, therefore, that Lem came to see the importance of keeping land like that where he played as a boy forever open and protected. What is surprising, however, is that Lem’s vision for protection of open space in perpetuity came about before such programs were at all well-known -- some 50 years ago -- leading to the creation of the Middlebury Land Trust ...

We are proud to celebrate and feature the 2019 honorees of our Awards for Excellence in Land Conservation. Presented at our annual Connecticut Land Conservation Conference , in making these awards, CLCC recognizes organizations and individuals who have made a substantive contribution to the ongoing success of land conservation in our state and projects that may serve as a guide to other land trusts and conservation organizations in Connecticut. #LoveYourCTLandTrust ... and congratulations! Sincerely, Amy Blaymore Paterson, Esq. Executive Director abpaterson@ctconservation.org

View more photos in our 2019 CT Land Conservation Conference Photo Album >>

Images and Photos courtesy of Heritage Land Preservation Trust, Middlebury Land Trust, and Lisa O'Brien,  www.lovetophotograph.com , Instagram birdddog1

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