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Joshua's Trust now protects over 4,000 acres in northeastern CT! Help us reach 5,000 acres - become a member today! |
office hours
Former Eagleville School House
South Eagleville Rd
Mansfield, Connecticut,
Thurs.1:30pm to 3:30pm.
Gristmill Lithograph
The full color lithograph
of a new painting of the Gristmill
by artist Charles McCaughtry,
is on sale at the Trust Office.
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Joshua's Trust is one of the oldest local conservation and historic trusts in the State of Connecticut. A non-profit organization, the Trust is designed to supplement the open space efforts of federal, state, and local governments by receiving gifts of land, conservation easements, and money. It may also purchase tracts of land that it considers especially important to preserve.
Joshua's Trust now owns, or protects by easement, more than 4,000 acres of land preserved for the benefit of future generations, making the trust the fourth largest land trust in Connecticut.
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The Trust is named for Joshua, son of Uncas, Mohegan Sachem, who in 1676 bequeathed his hunting grounds in the heart of eastern Connecticut to 16 men of Norwich. The Trust serves an area roughly conterminous with the Windham Region, including the towns of Andover, Ashford, Chaplin, Columbia, Coventry, Hampton, Mansfield, Lebanon, Storrs, Tolland, Willington, Woodstock and Windham.
Generous landowners who donate conservation easements to Joshua’s Land Trust are inspired by many things: they love Eastern Connecticut, they feel connected to their land, and they wish to leave a legacy for future generations. This inspiration is at the heart of our work to permanently protect valuable natural resources. But for almost all of our donors, donating a conservation easement is a major financial decision, and the federal income tax deduction that comes with a donation helps make easements possible for landowners in our community.
Connecticut Audubon Society
For More Information, visit Joshua's Trust History.
For More Information about conservation easements, click here.
Volunteer for Joshua's Trust!
Click here to learn what you can do to help conserve and protect open space in our community!
Related Links:
Connecticut Museum of National History
Conserving Tolland
The Last Green Valley
The Nature Conservancy
Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary
River Alliance of Connecticut
Thames Valley Trout Unlimited
Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary
Be sure to check out the Joshua's Trust Properties section
for details about the properties our land trust is protecting.
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Joshua's Trust is looking for donations for a tag sale fundraiser to be held September 11th at the Trust office.Donations can be brought ahead of the sale date to the Trust office on: Sept. 2 & 9, between 1:30 and 3:30. Please no books, magazines, clothes or old electronics (computers); everything else gratefully accepted. For more information, call Corine Norgaard (487-8004) or Isabelle Atwood (429-9671). Hot off the presses - click here to view or download the fall newsletter.  Charles McCaughtry, a member of Joshua's Trust, has partnered with
the Arts Exclusive gallery to raise money for land preservation and care. This
fundraiser will take effect in the month of August, 2010. 10% of the purchase price will be donated to Joshua's Trust, and the gallery will take an additional 10% off the total cost of the painting. Paintings by McCaughtry depicting scenes from the "Trust" area will be on display through August. Chalie McCaughty's online gallery can be viewed at: http://arts-exclusive.com/html/mccaughtry.htm For more information, please contact Arts Exclusive at 860-651-5824. "...Sam and his friends — equally divided between men and women — didn't stop there. Within the next three years, they created one of the strongest private, nonprofit, local land trusts in the state, Joshua's Trust. By 1970, 56 like-minded souls had contributed $1,400 to purchase a bumpy, pine-covered, pond-riddled patch of gravel behind the town library and called it Buchanan Woods... "Professor Robert Thorson highlights the beginnings of Joshua's Trust and Sam Dodd's committment to the fledgling local conservation movement. After reading this inspirational article in full, feel free to express your appreciation to Professor Thorson and/or the Hartford Courant. Professor Thorson's email is listed at the end of the article. The complete article can be viewed at: www.courant.com/news/opinion/hc-op-thorson-joshua-trust-0715-20100715,0,6345466.column Professor Thorson can be reached at profthorson@yahoo.com Visit the Hartford Courant online at http://www.courant.com A new trail map for the Lof preserve has just been posted. You can find it on our trail maps page. John Pagini, the Conservation Coordinator of Joshua’s Tract Conservation and Historic Trust, was honored by Gov. Jodi Rell at a ceremony on June 4th for his contributions to the development of Greenways. Click here for the full story
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