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Spoon Dairy Farm

Dairy Farm Grant Opportunity

Calling all dairy farmers interested in participating

August 15, 2018

The Dairy Transitions Farmland Protection Initiative is focused on dairy farms that are either looking to diversify their operation, or transfer to the next generation or a new ownership. This grant opportunity is being offered...read more

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It’s an Ecological Trap

June 28, 2018

Climate change can turn Monarch Butterflies’ favorite food into poison New research is documenting the impact of increased CO2 in...Read more »

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Tug Hill Land Trust Concerned About Mad River Wind Facility

Read the Entire White Paper Prepared by SUNY ESF

June 4, 2018

Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust has released a new “white paper” report with concerns about the wind energy facility proposed...Read more »

Top of the Hill Award

Tom, Tug Hill, and a lifetime spent in the out-of-doors

June 3, 2018

It seems that Tom Walker has always been passionate about Tug Hill. As part of the Tug Hill Trekers outdoor...Read more »

A Family’s Land is Protected Forever in the Town of Greig

A sacred trust, a love together along the Independence River

May 29, 2018

It seems like it is always cold here in the North Country. The frosty nights of the fall, the blustery,...Read more »

From L to R: Terry and George Cataldo, and Dr. Edward Russell

Local Land and Water Conservation Get a Boost

More Families Can Conserve Their Lands

May 21, 2018

Families and landowners in the Tug Hill region, including the counties of Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida and Oswego, just received good...Read more »

Concerned Wind Facility Will Hurt Forests, Salmon River, Hunting, Fishing, Fort Drum, Economy

January 21, 2018

Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust told the New York State Public Service Commission that it is concerned a major industrial...Read more »

Conserving tradition

Creative Partnership Make Conservation Possible

August 12, 2017

Mitch Yerdon has spent much of his life—40 years of it—out hiking these woods, hunting with friends and spending time...Read more »

Family, heritage, and a way of life

The Robbins family farm is full of surprises

August 7, 2017

There’s the sweeping expanse of fields, woodlands and meadows—all 4,000 acres of it—which in and of itself is quite remarkable....Read more »

Pollinator Fun at the Zoo!

June 18, 2017

You can help the bees & butterflies right in your own back yard. How? Come to our Pollinator Heroes workshops...Read more »