Daily Archives: March 4, 2025

Powisset Farm and Noanet Woodlands Abutting Land To Be Saved

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The Trustees of Reservations are thrilled to announce a major conservation milestone. Together with Hale Education @hale.1918 and the Dover Land Conservation Trust @doverlandtrust, conservation restrictions were submitted to protect over 1,100 acres in Dover and Westwood. The effort will protect one of the largest contiguous privately-owned tracts of land in the Boston metro region for many decades.

Hale’s land abuts two properties owned by The Trustees – the 109-acre Powisset Farm @powissetfarm and the 595-acre Noanet Woodlands (pictured below), as well as lands protected by the Dover Land Conservation Trust, and the towns of Dover and Westwood.

A conservation restriction is a method to permanently protect environmental values and limit the ways privately-owned land can be used, forever. The conservation restrictions are currently under programmatic and legal review by the state’s Division of Conservation Services in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. The project is anticipated to be completed by July 2025.

Learn more here: https://thetrustees.org/press-release/the-trustees-hale-education-and-dlct-reach-major-milestone-in-conservation-of-more-than-1100-acres/

Tuesday, March 11, 3:00 pm Eastern – Great Estates: Models for Modern Placemaking, Online

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The shape of London’s townscape has been heavily influenced by the work of the capital’s ‘great estates’. NLA’s recent publication Great Estates: Models for Modern Placemaking, in collaboration with RIBA Publishing, discusses the profound impact of enduring land custodians—families, trusts, charities, foundations, livery companies and others—who have meticulously overseen vast areas across the centuries. 

Their long-term approach to investment, development and management has informed the emergence of new large-scale and mixed-uses areas such as King’s Cross, Canary Wharf and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Sarah Yates, main author of the new book and former lead Researcher at NLA, explains the key principles and approaches of this unique model of place stewardship and how it has remained highly relevant and adaptable today.  £8.00 Register for this March 11 lecture, which will be available for an additional week following the talk, at https://londongardenstrust.org/lecture-details/?event=great-estates-online