The Redding Land Trust will celebrate its 45th birthday this year. "Celebrate" with them at their Annual Membership Meeting on March 28th from 3pm to 5pm at Highstead Arboretum ,127 Lonetown Road.

"We hope you will join us as we thank all who have helped write our story of successful land-saving."
Sincerely, Mary Anne Guitar, President

Founded in 1965 in order to preserve Redding's natural heritage of open space, the Redding Land Trust today holds, in outright gifts or in conservation easements, some 1,600 acres of meadows and woodlands, saved forever from the bulldozer. Preserved properties range from a few acres to large tracts of 100 acres or more. These, along with major tracts purchased by the Town and the presence of Putnam and Huntington State Parks, make Redding a unique green oasis amid surrounding towns.

The Redding Land Trust has been preparing an application for Accreditation with the Land Trust Alliance (LTA) over the last two years, beginning with a rigorous self-assessment. Each of the 125 properties owned by the Land Trust and each of the 53 easements held by the Land Trust have been visited annually with all management plans updated. This has been accomplished by the working Trustees of RLT over this period of time. The Redding Land Trust adopted the LTA Standards and Practices in 2006 and have been working since then to align their practices and policies to this stringent model of management excellence.