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Land Protection Projects Completed by
Valley Land Fund and Its Partners
1986-2004
| TOWN | ACRES | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | PARTNERS (incomplete) |
| Agawam | 30 | APR/CR | Turtle breeding area near power plant site | DFA/NHESP-DFW |
| Amherst | 22 | APR | Farmland | Town/DFA |
| Amherst | 15 | CR | Farm/hayfield | |
| Amherst | 12 | FEE | Wooded upland | |
| Amherst | 19 | FEE | Woodland/Holyoke Range | |
| Amherst | 10 | APR | Addition to protected farmland | |
| Amherst | 10 | APR | Addition to existing APR; Northeast St. | Town/DFA/Kestrel Trust |
| Amherst | 15 | APR | Route 9 APR | Town/DFA/Kestrel Trust |
| Amherst | 22 | APR | Orchard/Holyoke Range | |
| Amherst | 101 | FEE/CR/APR | Aquifer/wetland and farmland; adj. to Rail Trail | Town/DFA/Hampshire College |
| Amherst | 49 | APR | Farmland adjacent to Town land and Wilkie APR | DFA/Kestrel Trust/Town/AFT |
| Amherst | 8.8 | FEE | Inholding between DEM parcels | DEM? |
| Amherst | 14 | CR/trail | Farmland; adj. to Rail Trail | Town/Self-Help |
| Amherst | 160 | APR | Second-to-last farm in APR block | Amherst Comm. Pres. Cttee; Kestrel Trust |
| Ashfield | 151 | FEE | Wet meadow/beaver flowage/vernal pools and Swift R. | Franklin Land Trust; Town of Ashfield |
| Belchertown | 6.4 | FEE | Woodland; Turkey Hill | |
| Belchertown | 40 | FEE | Aquifer area | |
| Belchertown | 112 | FEE | Wetlands; water supply/Lawrence Swamp recharge area | Town/Kestrel/Self-Help |
| Belchertown | 93 | FEE | Adjoins Cadwell Memorial Forest & Springfield watershed | Belchertown |
| Bernardston | 28 | FEE | Waterfowl area | DFW |
| Blandford | 275 | FEE | Watershed of Spfld. Reservoir; streams & wetlands | Springfield Water Department |
| Blandford | 69 | FEE | Watershed land adj. Cons. Comm./CR holdings | Town |
| Blandford | 150 | FEE/CR | Wooded hilltop and wetlands; headwaters Wigwam Brook | Blandford |
| Charlemont | 11.2 | FEE | Stream; field; woods; starting point for protected block | |
| Chesterfield | 159 | CR | Riverfront adj. state wildlife management areas | |
| Chesterfield | 40 | CR | Adjacent to other CR | |
| Chesterfield | 30 | FEE | Near Chesterfield SF | DEM |
| Chesterfield | 110 | FEE | On Westfield River / nr Chesterfield SF; Gorge; COE land | |
| Chesterfield | 20 | FEE/CR | Connector between Krug Sugar Bush and S.F. | DEM/Hilltown Land Trust |
| Colrain | 56 | FEE | Woodland on Kennedy Ridge | |
| Colrain | 55 | FEE | Woodland | |
| Colrain | 43 | FEE/APR | Fields critical to sheep farm; area of stunning farms | Franklin Land Trust; conservation buyer |
| Cummington | 169 | FEE | Addition to state recr. area; signif.habitat;W’field Brk | DEM |
| Cummington | 54.8 | FEE | 2 lots wooded land near TTOR reservation; Town center | |
| Deerfield | 1 | FEE | Deerfield R. boating access | |
| Deerfield | 7 | FEE | Keystone parcels for Pocumtuck Ridge corridor | DEM/Deerfield LT |
| Deerfield | 40 | CR | Ct. R. farmland; ~1600′ shoreline | DEM |
| Deerfield | 19.066 | FEE | Keystone parcels for Pocumtuck Ridge corridor | DEM/Deerfield LT |
| Easthampton | 27 | FEE/APR | East St. farmland and brook; local LT nature trail | Pascommuck C.T.; TTOR; Town; DFA |
| Easthampton | 72.67 | FEE | Barnes Aquifer watershed/Mt. Tom flank/Broad Bk. | Town; Self Help Program |
| Easthampton | 124 | APR | Orchard/wooded stream valley | DFA; Easthampton |
| Gill | 41 | FEE | French King Gorge / Rt. 2 / Ct. R./listed spp. | DEM |
| Goshen | 90 | FEE | Near DAR State Forest | |
| Granby | 7 | FEE | Marbled Salamander habitat; part of block | Friends of Mt. Holyoke Range |
| Greenfield | 68.4 | FEE/FEE/CR | Native American/geological site | Friends of Wissatinnewag; DEM; USFWS |
| Greenfield | 9 | FEE | Part of ridge corridor (Wissatinnewag to Town land) | DEM |
| Hadley | 19.6 | FEE | Grassland bird habitat | Sweet Water Trust |
| Hadley | 100 | FEE | Mt. Warner farmland | DEM; DFW |
| Hadley | 38 | FEE | Orchard on Mt. Warner | DFA |
| Hadley | 10 | FEE | Conn. R./Rte. 47 | Kestrel Trust |
| Hadley | 8 | FEE | Rt. 47 farmland | |
| Hadley | 68 | FEE | Lake Warner and dam | Sweet Water Trust |
| Hadley | 16 | FEE | Fort River | |
| Hadley | 2.5 | FEE | Dike and trail along Ct. R. | |
| Hadley | 12 | CR | Access easement to Hadley Cove birding site | Hadley/Natural Resource Conservation Service |
| Hadley | 38 | APR | Mt. Warner orchard adj. to Agassiz | |
| Hadley | 93 | CR | Hilltop keystone addition to 500 acre protected block | Kestrel Trust; DEM |
| Hadley | 12 | APR/FEE | Addition to protected APR block; scenic keystone | Town of Hadley; conservation buyer; DFA |
| Hadley | 27 | FEE/APR | Fields adj. Connecticut River ‘red rocks’/arch. site | DEM; DFA |
| Hadley | 31.5 | APR/FEE | Parcels along Russellville Brook in APR block | DFA |
| Hadley | 24 | FEE | Wetland along Russellville Brook; native trout | |
| Hadley | 6 | FEE | Ct. R. island | |
| Hadley | 20 | APR | Key parcel in important agricultural block | DFA/Kestrel/Hadley |
| Hadley | 8 | FEE | Connecticut River beach | |
| Hadley | 12 | FEE | Hillside parcel spans access road to Skinner SP | DEM |
| Hadley | 20 | FEE | Open field prominent in Skinner SP viewshed | DEM |
| Hadley | 16 | FEE/APR | Connecticut River ‘red rocks’/farmland/ archaeological | DEM/DFA |
| Hadley | 23 | APR | Classic farmstead along Slab Brook | DFA; Hadley |
| Hadley | 13 | APR | Classic farmstead along Slab Brook | DFA; Hadley |
| Hampden | 166 | FEE | Wooded mountainside & wildlife corridor/Scantic R. | Hampden Land Project; Town |
| Hampden | 92 | FEE | Wooded mountainside; wildlife corridor/Scantic R. | Hampden Land Project;EOEA;Town;Norcross |
| Hatfield | 10 | FEE | Watershed area | |
| Hatfield | 23 | FEE | Part of Hatfield Reservoir/The Rocks block | Hatfield |
| Hatfield | 11.7 | FEE | Part of Hatfield Reservoir/The Rocks block | Hatfield |
| Hatfield | 12.8 | FEE | Part of Hatfield Reservoir/The Rocks block | Hatfield |
| Hatfield | 2.8 | FEE | Part of Hatfield Reservoir/The Rocks block | Hatfield |
| Hatfield | 11 | APR | Tillable land in agricultural area | DFA; Hatfield |
| Hatfield | 10 | FEE | Ct. R. beach/boat launch | |
| Hatfield | 5 | FEE | Northampton watershed area | |
| Hatfield | 15.61 | CR | Watershed area | |
| Hatfield | 12 | FEE | Reservoir watershed/adj. other protected land | Hatfield Conservation Commission |
| Hatfield | 35 | CR | Woodland with vernal pool near road | |
| Hatfield | 18 | FEE | Reservoir watershed land with Chestnut Mt. peak | |
| Hatfield | 132 | CR | Ridgetop headwaters of Running Gutter Brook | U.S. Forest Service; DEM; Town |
| Hatfield | 40 | APR | Land with active greenhouses near other APR | DFA; Hatfield |
| Hatfield | 47 | APR | Farmland and woods near Great Pond | DFA; Hatfield |
| Heath/Colrain | 97 | FEE | Pristine woodland addition to HO Cook State Forest | |
| Holyoke | 198 | FEE | Old growth oak; vernal pools; Little Mt. Tom | DEM |
| Holyoke/S’ton/E’ton | 102 | CR | Small farm on slopes of Mt. Tom | Easthampton/DEP |
| Huntington | 6.5 | FEE | Open field along riverbank | Hilltown Land Trust; ad hoc group |
| Leverett | 38 | FEE | Scenic outlook | |
| Leverett | 100 | FEE | Mount Toby | |
| Leverett | 30 | FEE/CR | Meadow section of wildlife corridor | |
| Leverett | 51 | FEE | Brook and M-M trail corridor | |
| Leyden/Bernardston | 200 | FEE | Woodland parcel near Collis APR and Herron Farm | |
| Longmeadow | 118 | FEE/CR | Ct. R. floodplain farm adj. Fannie Stebbins Refuge | Longmeadow CC/TNC/DEM |
| Monson | 179 | APR | Scenic orchard with woodland | Opacum Land Trust; Trustees of Reservations; DFA |
| Montague | 10 | APR | Farmland | |
| Montague | 50 | APR | Strawberry farm with 1/2 mile Conn. R. frontage | |
| Montague | 70 | CR/APR | Farm on Sawmill R. | |
| Montague | 51 | FEE | Farm on Ct. R. | |
| Montague | 10 | FEE | Ct. R. bluff/Hatchery Brook | |
| Northampton | 88 | FEE | Fitzgerald Lake Conserv. Area | |
| Northampton | 2.35 | FEE | Access to Roberts Hill overlook | Northampton |
| Northampton | 3 | FEE | Mill River shoreline | |
| Northampton | 66 | FEE | Woodland/trails | |
| Northampton | 10 | FEE | Fitzgerald Lake cons. area inholding | Northampton |
| Northampton | 5.5 | FEE | Fitzgerald Lake cons. area access | |
| Northampton | 161 | FEE | Wetland and old orchard | Broad Brook Coalition/Northampton |
| Northampton | 30 | FEE/CR/APR??? | Woods and fields/adj. to Micka APR | City of Northampton |
| Northampton | 15 | FEE | Addition to Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area | Town; Broad Brook Coalition |
| N’ton/E’ton | 55 | APR | Hilltop orchard/vegetable farm | Northampton; DFA |
| Orange | 24 | FEE/CR | Addition to Whetstone Wood Wildlife Sanctuary | Mass. Audubon Society |
| Pelham/Shutesbury | 312 | APR/CR | Farm | |
| Shutesbury | 68 | FEE | Woods; wetlands; fields | |
| Shutesbury | 50 | FEE | Woods adjoining Town Beach at Lake Wyola | Town |
| South Hadley | 56.2 | FEE/CR | Elmer Brook and Holyoke Range | |
| South Hadley | 16 | FEE/CR | Woodland on Holyoke Range | |
| South Hadley | 68 | CR | Trail access/spectacular views of Range | |
| South Hadley | 6 | FEE | Holyoke Range | |
| South Hadley | 16 | FEE | Marbled Salamander habitat; part of block | Friends of Mt. Holyoke Range |
| South Hadley | 33 | FEE | Next-to-last piece in Mt. Holyoke/Ct. corridor | DEM |
| South Hadley | 11.7 | FEE | Marbled Salamander habitat; part of block | Kestrel; Friends of Mt. Holyoke Range |
| South Hadley | 13.8 | FEE/CR | Marbled Salamander habitat; part of block | Kestrel; SH Cons. Comm. |
| South Hadley | 32 | FEE | Bald on Holyoke Range; part of salamander habitat | Friends of Mt. Holyoke Range |
| Southampton | 130 | FEE | NHESP priority/fields/Broad Brook/Barnes Aquifer | Town CC; NHESP-DFW |
| Southampton | 90 | APR | Portion of farm | DFA |
| Southwick | 150 | FEE | Hayfields and wetlands with seven ponds | Town; Self-Help |
| Southwick | 65 | CR | Honeypot Road wetlands complex; state-listed spp. | Winding River LC/Town/Self-Help/DFW/Sweet W |
| Sunderland | 41 | FEE | Scenic area near Mt. Toby | |
| Sunderland | 5 | FEE | Inholding on Mt. Toby | |
| Sunderland | 8 | FEE | Chard Pond/Conn. River-front forest | |
| Sunderland | 46 | FEE | Mt. Toby caves | |
| Sunderland | 21 | FEE/CR | Mt. Toby meadows | Local group; DEM; Town |
| Sunderland | 10.5 | FEE | Slopes of Mt. Toby; near Robert Frost Trail | |
| Sunderland | 20.4 | APR | One of two remaining parcels in Rt. 47 APR block | DFA; Town |
| Sunderland | 20 | APR | Landlocked field with tobacco barn in agricultural block | DFA |
| Warwick | 2.3 | FEE | State forest addition | |
| Warwick | 25 | FEE | Bog and woodland in Orange SF | |
| Wendell | 14 | FEE | Millers River | |
| Wendell | 40 | FEE | Wendell S.F. | |
| Wendell | 13 | FEE | Wildlife habitat | Mass. Audubon Society |
| Wendell | 77 | FEE | Watershed area | |
| Wendell | 0.37 | FEE | Controls access to Whetstone Wood Sanctuary | Mass. Audubon Society |
| West Springfield | 1.2 | FEE | Ct. R. access | |
| West Springfield | 0.5 | FEE | Westfield River access across fr. Robinson S.P. | |
| West Springfield | 11.5 | FEE | Bald eagle nesting site; floodplain; 650′ Ct. R. bank | DFW |
| Westfield | 16 | FEE | Westfield R. front | |
| Westfield | 29 | FEE | Woodland tract | Winding River Land Conservancy |
| Westfield | 32 | FEE | Connects two APR parcels; wetlands and vernal pools | Winding River Land Conservancy; Self-Help; Town |
| Westhampton | 272 | FEE | Peak of Mt. Pisgah; adjacent to protected land | Hilltown Land Trust |
| Westhampton | 90 | FEE | Woodland near existing and potential protected land | Hilltown Land Trust |
| Whately | 19.9 | FEE | Borrow pit pond | |
| Whately | 19.9 | FEE | Borrow pit pond | |
| Whately | 20 | FEE | 20 acre woodlot nr. DFW land | DFW |
| Williamsburg/Ch’field | 243 | CR | extensive woodland with stream | landowner donation |
| Worthington | 135 | APR | ‘Airport’ section of potato farm | |
| Worthington | 81 | APR | Farmland (`Smith Farm’ parcel) | |
| TOTAL ACRES: | 8130 | 158 PROJECTS |
FEE=full title | CR=Conservation Restriction | APR=Agricultural Preservation Restriction DFA=Dept. of Food & Agric. (now DAR) | DEM=Dept. of Env. Management (now DCR) | DFW=Div. of Fisheries & Wildlife (now DFG) NHESP=Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program | Ct R=Connecticut River | CC=conservation commission | LT=land trust