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  • Friday, March 13 – Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition 2026 Conference

    The 2026 Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference will be held on Friday, March 13th at UMass Amherst. Register by Friday, February 20th for early-bird pricing!

    MassLand is excited to host Dr. Pooja Sarin Tandon, Health Director for the Trust for Public Land, who will speak on Nature and Health — a Pediatrician’s Perspective. Tandon is a general pediatrician and health researcher who has dedicated her career to advancing children’s health by promoting healthy behaviors and reducing disparities. In particular, her work has focused on play equity (“play for all children”), and promoting access to physical activity and outdoor recreation. In her new book, Digging into Nature: Outdoor Adventures for Happier and Healthier Kids, she explores how and why children and their families are happier, healthier, and more resilient when spending time outdoors. Dr. Tandon is also (co-)author on several other papers and studies about the relation between the outdoors and healthy children, healthy communities.

    The Conference is sponsored in part by the Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs, The Trustees, Mass Audubon, The Nature Conservancy, Berkshire Natural Resources Council, Fields Pond Foundation, Greenbelt (Essex County Land Trust), Kestrel Land Trust, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, Sudbury Valley Trustees, Wildlands Trust, and others listed on the Conference web page https://massland.org/events/land-conservation-conference.

  • Wednesday, July 29, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, and Thursday, July 30, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon – Native Island Trees

    Wednesday, July 29, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, and Thursday, July 30, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon – Native Island Trees

    The Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury welcomes back Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation’s director of stewardship Kristen Fauteux and Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank ecologist Julie Russell, for an in-depth study of our island trees. Join them for this one and a half-day workshop to learn the tools of tree identification and to search for examples of island native trees in their habitats. We begin Wednesday with a class (9 – 3) at the Arboretum, then head into the field to find our trees. Thursday we continue our field exploration from 9 – noon. Class size is limited, advance registration required. $90/$70 for PHA members; $50 for professionals associated with Island land management or conservation organizations. To register, and for more information, call 508-693-9426.

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  • Saturday, November 21 – Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation Conservation Walk

    Sheriff’s Meadow holds its series of public walks, in each month of the year, on properties that they own or hold conservation restrictions over. Pre-registration is required as space may be limited.  The Saturday, November 21 walk will be through the Edgartown Pond Lot in Edgartown. Visit http://www.sheriffsmeadow.org site for starting times, directions and other information.  You may also telephone 508-693-5207.  Another walk, in Chappaquiddick, will take place on Saturday, December 19.

    The mission of Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is to conserve, administer and manage natural habitats for wildlife, and all other lands that represent the beautiful, rural, natural character of Martha’s Vineyard.  Henry Beetle Hough and Elizabeth Bowie Hough founded Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation to conserve land that no other organization would. Editor of the Vineyard Gazette, Henry and Elizabeth lived on Pierce Lane in Edgartown.  Overseen by a Board of Directors, Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation now employs six year-round and two seasonal staff. The Foundation’s properties represent all the major Martha’s Vineyard habitats: beaches, sand dunes, coastal ponds, wooded moraine, forests, swamps, marshes, agricultural lands, meadows and more.

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