WALLKILL VALLEY LAND TRUST INC

We partner with other local organizations to:
- Support healthy communities by providing open space for recreation, corridors for biodiversity, and protection of natural resources such as clean drinking water, healthy soil, and clean air.
- Permanently protect the land from future development for the benefit of present and future generations.
- Create connections with the land by helping people discover new ways that land is meaningful to them.
- Preserve a way of life by protecting the valuable assets that make our region a great place to live, work and visit.
WVLT works with landowners to secure conservation easements in order to permanently protect their land from future development.

- Partner with municipalities, local businesses and community organizations.
- Emphasize problem-solving and creative collaborations.
- Education the community and visitors in Ulster County on open spaces, rail trails and farms.

The Wallkill Valley Land Trust, since 1987 has championed relationship building, listening and understanding our various community needs. The Board of Directors have been and remain very active in furthering our mission and stewarding our protected lands (owned and under conservation easement). The Land Trust's small staff works with volunteers, interns and other groups to effectively manage the nearly 3,000 acres of open space, rail trails and farms we conserve.

The Wallkill Valley Land Trust has streamlined the internal operations by upgrading our communications and database programing (thanks to grant support). We absorbed another nonprofit in December of 2018, the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail Association. The educational programing remains a focus for the Land Trust, especially while managing the impacts of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.