May 2008

Prospect Land Trust

It’s hard to believe that another year has past by and that Prospect Land Trust just celebrated its 14th year. Much has been accomplished and the Land Trust wishes to thank everyone for their continued support.
Members of the land trust have attended numerous meetings with various town commissions, sent representatives to the Annual Conference of the Ct. Land Conservation Council and participated in a forum of the local Land Trusts with the help of the Connecticut Nature Conservancy. Ann Stein, a member from the PLT has been an active participant for the past 2 years on the Prospect Open Space Planning sub - Committee of the Conservation Commission to develop an open space recommendation plan for the town council to be adopted into our town's plan of conservation and development.
The Land Trust has many on going projects that we are excited about. Miss Tina Berry, a Girl Scout, working on her Gold Award began developing a hiking trail on one of our newest properties located on Summit Heights. Boy Scout Troop 258 will be helping with improvements to our college farms property as part of their community service projects and Troop 27 is interested in conducting a hike on the P.L.T. property. On April 2nd a signing ceremony was held at the Prospect Town Hall to finalize the easement associated with the Nettleton property located on Mountain Rd. The land trust will begin to collect baseline data on this property as well as completing monitoring/stewardship reports on all of its properties.
Officials from the Regional Water Authority were our guest speakers at the Annual meeting of the Land Trust. The RWA has identified two parcels of non-water system land in Prospect that it would like to sell. In the next weeks and months, look for articles in The Prospect Pages that will help you keep abreast of the information regarding the sale of an estimated 35 acres of land and what options we (the Town of Prospect, and the P.L.T.) have for these properties.
In closing I would like to say that the Prospect Land Trust is a 501c3 non-profit organization, operated entirely by volunteers. We are incorporated at the state level, hold federal non-profit status, and receive no funds from the town. With your continued support we will be able to provide areas of open space that help maintain the quality of life for every citizen of our community.
If you are a member, Thank you for all that you have done! If you are not a member and would like to become one please look for our brochure on display throughout town, contact us at Prospect Land Trust, P.O. Box 7375, Prospect, CT 06712 or join us at our monthly meeting on the fourth Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the Prospect Library.