Strengthening Land Trusts. Advancing Land Conservation.

This year will focus on discussions of key topics, and how land trusts and State agencies can work together to accomplish these goals. Topics will include: shifting allocations among DCS grant programs; the State’s comprehensive land use plan; communicating/Framing our messages on policy Issues; what's next with RLI; and farmland protection tools.

Hosted by Irene Del Bono - title research guru and retired attorney with extensive background in property law in both private practice and at the EEA - this seminar will be a comprehensive guide to help you find deeds that are hard to find; what to do when there are references to things potentially affecting the title; and what it will take to "fix" title issues. This is not a class on title examinations - which should be done by an attorney. This class should help you find an attorney versed in problems that might be attached to a property.

Join the Early Conservation Career Network for a casual hike among the beautiful fall colors that bring thousands of tourists to the Berkshires every year. We'll start by meeting in downtown Lee and eating our meals (sandwiches or salads from Loeb's Foodtown) at the nearby park. Then, we'll head to Basin Pond Reserve, owned by Berkshire Natural Resources Council, for a hike around its 2.5-mile loop trail through boulder fields and under beautiful mixed forest canopy. A viewing platform offers a scenic vista of the pond, beaver lodges and dams, and a historic (human-made) dam.

Open to anyone with responsibilities of running or working in a small-staffed land trust, this quarter's topic will focus on organizing and working with board subcommittees that blend trustee and non-trustee participants. Part of MLTC's Stronger Together networking series, this call will not be recorded. Newcomers welcome!