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Featured Projects
The Peconic Land Trust is excited to have worked on over 500 projects on Long Island since 1983. Nearly 14,000 conserved acres have resulted from partnering with donors, landowners, municipalities, other organizations, and local communities. These lands include working farms, meadows, woodland, dunes, and wetlands.
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Ongoing
Photo Credit: Rita Rooney
The North Fork Community and Trust supporters across the island came together to conserve the last large open space parcel on Deep Hole Creek. The parcel will not be subdivided into seven building lots, but remain as one parcel. See what all the excitement is about!
Improve the quality of the water in Sagg Pond by joining with the Trust and other community partners today!
A five-acre gem in the heart of Bridgehampton, Bridge Gardens is a unique public and demonstration garden. A membership to Bridge Gardens is a great way to show your support for this beautiful public garden, open daily with free admission.
We're building a trail system with accessibility features at the Wolf Preserve in Southold. Learn about this beautiful preserve and how you can help more people enjoy nature.
We're creating a living shoreline to stabilize the beach at the Widow's Hole Preserve in Greenport.
Community Collaboration
Working to protect the sacred land of the Shinnecock.
Sugar Loaf Hill Summit - this most sacred site has been protected from future development and will be restored
Cabbage at Quail Hill Farm
Quail Hill Farm is one of the original Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in the U.S. Help us grow the farm in Amagansett!
photo courtesy of Peter Matthiessen Center
For more than sixty years, 527 Bridge Lane in Sagaponack, NY, was home to the writer Peter Matthiessen. The community is working on the creation of a cultural center that expands on Matthiessen’s lifelong passions for writing, environmental conservation and Zen Buddhism.
Support the community's restoration of Old Town Pond in Southampton Village.
Recent Conservation
Thanks to the support of over 25 neighbors, the Trust acquired a small, but ecologically important woodland parcel in Southold.
The Peconic Land Trust acquired 29.8 acres adjacent to the Wolf Preserve on the Great Hog Neck Peninsula. This increased the protected area to over 50 acres that will now be available for passive recreation, while also providing climate change resiliency, wildlife habitat, and groundwater protection.
Thanks to a generous donation by Katharine Rayner, the Peconic Land Trust has acquired and begun remediation and restoration of this 1.4 acre property along Georgica Pond.
Edwards Farm and Townsend Memorial Overlook allowed for the permanent protection of 21 acres of farmland, woodlands, and wetlands in Orient. The farmland is currently leased to a flower farmer.
