[MA-RPC] Local Land Trusts

[Walt Daniels]

And I should have added, that the RPC should take upon itself to construct a
list of all the local land trusts along the trail. This is not an easy job
and for those who live a long way from their section may involve talking to
the locals when they are up doing work on their section. Most land trusts
belong to the Land Trust Alliance www.lta.org where you can look up contact
information. In looking at NY I don't know of any that aren't on their list,
but information about determining their coverage area is not there.

I am willing to do the bookkeeping on our web site if people send me the
names of the land trusts and their coverage area (typically, a town, county
or some other easily described area, but some of them are hard, e.g. Scenic
Hudson which covers stuff along the Hudson River but no clear boundary of
how close it has to be). I will attempt to do NY and NJ. Or perhaps ATC
already has such a list (Karen or Bob - do you know?)

Incidentally, one of the conservation and advocacy staff members of Scenic
Hudson is on the NYNJTC Board. That is one way of expanding local hiking
clubs communications with locals in this important area. Land Trusts
frequently have staff and volunteers who are hikers so get your membership
committee to pursue them as members. Who among us can't use a few more
members?

It might also be interesting to track local town or county conservation
boards and open space committees. 

At some point we should construct a brochure that we can give to all of the
above, telling them who we are, what we need and what we can help with.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ma-rpc-bounces at commerce-02.cilia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Walt Daniels
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:09 PM
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> Subject: RE: [MA-RPC] FW: [at-l] Motocross Track Plans Fuel Debate
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>  
> > 
> > And many of us, such as I, are not local residents, so we need to 
> > identify ATC members who are residents and who share our values to 
> > serve on the committees.
> > 
> 
> There are statewide organizations or even regional with state 
> subcommittees such as www.highlandscoalition.org which is 
> very active in NJ, a bit less so in NY and just starting up 
> in CT and PA. I would expect local land trusts to be somewhat 
> open to "outsiders" especially if they are knowledgeable or 
> contribute.
> 
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