Westchester Land Trust

Join our team! WLT is seeking a conservation technician to help us steward our preserves! This position will have a strong focus on visitor experience and wildlife habitat management to ensure our preserves are meeting the needs of the people and critters that enjoy the land. Visit bit.ly/WLThiring to apply!

🌳Healing through the power of trees!🌳 WLT's director of urban engagement, Ruby, recently penned an article for the New York State Urban Forestry Council exploring ways we can reconnect people with nature when they’ve been intentionally denied access to it due to racist systems of oppression. As she puts it, "The answer is both beautifully simple and wildly complex at the same time—the way to see ourselves as part of the land is to interact with it. There is no quicker shifter of consciousness than a forest. And there are few better educators than trees." Read the full article here https://loom.ly/Bb9EOsQ

The WLT team is thrilled to welcome Dave Tobias, of Rhinebeck, to our Board of Directors! Dave is a longtime friend of the organization and is an accomplished conservationist whose career spanned 28 years at the NYC Department of Environmental Protection and seven years with The Nature Conservancy. We look forward to working with Dave to protect more of the land you love! Read more about Dave here: https://loom.ly/-vEZgdo💚

May my children, and all children, always know the peace of a walk in the forest. https://lnkd.in/e3EaMhAh

Last weekend, Westchester Land Trust was honored to officially dedicate the Alpheus Prioleau Gateway at Glenwood Lake in partnership with Friends of Glenwood Lake Park, Glenwood Lake Association, and the City of New Rochelle. We thank all who came out to celebrate this event, marking decades of passionate work by the community to protect land around this oasis of green in New Rochelle. And thank you to WLT Board Director Nanette Bourne for speaking at the event to share WLT's role in this conservation success. Read more about the dedication, as well as the story behind protecting this special place, at https://loom.ly/sKywG2o

That’s right, we protected more land! We’re thrilled to announce the permanent protection of 40 acres in Cortlandt! This land is now part of our existing McGregor Pond Preserve and protects crucial wildlife habitat, as well as access to drinking water for the City of Peekskill. Thank you to The Nature Conservancy for supporting this project! Read more at https://loom.ly/Afj6uLQ

WLT is hiring! We're looking for a passionate and engaging professional to serve as our operations manager. Successful candidates for this role will be a jack-of-all-trades, team player, and problem solver who can work closely with our president as the administrative center of the organization. Visit bit.ly/WLThiring to read the full job description and learn how to apply.

✨Tickets are on sale for WLT's grandest party of the year!✨ Join us Saturday, June 8 for our 2024 Annual Benefit, Growing Our Future, at Old Salem Farm—tickets start at $500, and new this year, we're offering 'junior conservationist' tickets starting at $200. We'll raise a toast to our incredible honorees: Annie Farrell, Lifetime Achievement Award; The Ryder Family, Preservation Award; and Mike Surdej, Community Volunteer Award. Get your tickets today at https://loom.ly/eZWO_FQ!

We're kicking off the new year with exciting additions to our leadership team! Anthony Barzilay Freund, of Bedford, and Chantel McGee, of New York City, have joined our Board of Directors, and Ava Cohn, of Bedford Corners, David Michael, of Sleepy Hollow, and Michael Rubbo, of Verbank, have joined the Advisory Board. Learn more about WLT's talented new board members here: https://loom.ly/fZAU_mg

As you gather with loved ones or simply pause to reflect during this time of year, Westchester Land Trust wishes you a happy, safe, and joyful season!