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There's a MAP for that!

Saratoga County trails are now mapped and available online in a variety of

formats for your walking, hiking, rolling, riding,

biking, and running leasure! 

Special thanks to the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, the Saratoga County Planning Department, and Christopher Ferraro, former Saratoga PLAN intern extraordinaire,

for gathering the data

for the trail maps

 

click for link

QUICK LINKS:

 

Using Conservation Easements

to Protect Agricultural Land

Tools for Community

Planning and Conservation

Champlain Canalway Trail

Action Plan

Battles of Saratoga Viewshed Preservation Plan

Historic Saratoga-Washington on the Hudson Partnership Stewardship Plan

Saratoga County Green Infrastructure Plan

    

We need garage space!

We are looking for garage space for storage of stewardship equipment (chainsaws, tools, etc.)

with access near our office.

A12x12 space would be ideal.

For details please contact Andy Fyfe,

Stewardship Director, at (518) 587-5554 ext. 3

or via email

 

Saratoga PLAN

T-shirts now

available! 

Click to order

Show your support of land conservation

in Saratoga County.

Suggested donation $15.00

Please consider adding $2.25 to your donation

to cover first class postage

Yellow T-shirts in children's sIzes

now available!

 

Please call 518-587-5554 to find our more about the Legacy Circle and planned giving.

 

If you have made arrangements to remember Saratoga PLAN in your estate plans, we invite you to join the Legacy Circle so that we may acknowledge your thoughtfulness and generosity.

 

Click to view our Fall 2011 Newsletter

 

Click to view our Spring 2011 Newsletter

 

Click for our latest Annual Report

 

 

 

 

 

Saratoga PLAN helps protect the exceptional quality of life in our region by

conserving open spaces and special places for present and future generations.

Saratoga P.L.A.N. helps communities make long-term decisions to sustain the Saratoga Region as a great place to live, work, visit, and farm.

As a land trust, we protect land in the Saratoga region through purchases and donations of land and conservation easements, to protect important natural resources and open spaces. We have protected over 3,387 acres of farmland, forest, natural habitat, trail corridors, historic places, and water resources in the Saratoga region and have over 1,000 acres of projects now in the works.

As a community partner, we help landowners, developers, community and government agencies find innovative ways to guide development, reduce sprawl, preserve and enhance outdoor recreational areas and protect the natural qualities of the region.

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Spruce Mountain Snowshoe Trip
Saturday, February 18th

wIth Adirondack Mountain Club

Glens Falls - Saratoga Chapter


10:00 AM at the Spruce Mountain trailhead,

or 9:30 AM at the Saratoga Springs Train Station parking lot (off West Avenue)
Rating: C  Leaders:  Jacki Bave and Andy Fyfe

Bring snowshoes, a lunch, and please dress appropriately for winter.  For driving directions to the train station or the trailhead, or to RSVP  please email jackibave@gmail.com For snowshoe rentals, we suggest contacting

EMS in WIlton at (518) 580-1505

or Adirondack Mountain Club Headquarters

at Northway Exit 21 - (518) 668-4447.  

 

Join us for a snowshoe up Spruce Mountain,

one of the Fire Tower Challenge peaks

This 2003 ft. mountain, located in Corinth,

has a 1.1 mile trail to the summit,

with about 1000 ft of elevation gain. 

Note - Snowshoes may or may not be needed at the time of the hike, depending on snow cover..  Please contact Jackie or Andy if you are uncertain.

 

Saratoga P.L.A.N., ADK Mountain Club,

and other interested parties have been working

to secure official public access to the summit

and its fire tower.  Andy Fyfe of Saratoga PLAN

has obtained permission from the patchwork of private landowners for this trip. The tower

remains closed for access at this time

CURRENT PROJECTS

Saratoga PLAN launches 3 Bags Full Campaign to conserve the Foster Sheep Farm

 

The 145-acre Foster Sheep Farm with fertile hay fields and pastures is located on the western bank of the Hudson River in the Town of Northumberland in Saratoga County, New York. The funds raised will be used to coordinate the process of applying a perpetual conservation easement on the property, ensuring that it will remain farmland and forest forever.   


 

click here to read more and make a donation

 

 

With your help, this 84-acre property, which has been in the same family for 90 years, will be protected by a permanent conservation easement, ensuring that it will always remain available for continued agricultural pursuits.

 

We still need to raise $4,500.

 Please make a donation today.


 

Thank you to Shane and Jamie WIlliams-Ness,

Kelly and Campbell Kane, The Wishing Well,

and MaryLeigh and the Fauves for a

spectacular evening of food, friends, and

music to help protect this land.

Special thanks to the following people

who have helped to conserve this farm

by adopting a "virtual acre"

of this beautiful property.

Don Ampansari

Sheri and Jeff Bigelow

Theresa Capozzola

Robert and Sara Chindamo

Tom Healy

Robert and Mary Alice Lee

Bob and Maria Miller

Frank Mitola

Jim and Laurie Murphy

Christianne Smith

Lori Squadere and Todd Laroche

Mike Stanton

Sarah Whittle

 

 

Coldbrook Preserve

The Coldbrook Preserve is a 64-acre property in the Town of Northumberland which will be opening in the Spring of 2012 for public recreation. The trails on this preserve will eventually connect to county trails and trails owned by The Nature Conservancy and The Wilton Wildlife Preserve.  The Coldbrook Preserve will offer critical buffer to wetland habitat for the Blanding's turtle, a New York State-threatened species, and the spotted turtle, as well as opportunities for scientists to study the species. 

Contact Andy Fyfe, Stewardship Director if you are interested in volunteering to assist with trail work and site stewardship. 

This preserve will be opening Summer 2012.. 

 

 

Hennig Preserve

We are pleased to announce the opening of our newest preserve, the 606-acre Hennig Preserve, located in the Town of Providence. We've installed 1.5 miles of trail and need volunteers to help expand the trail system. Contact Andy Fyfe, Stewardship Director.

 

click here for details

SAVE THE DATE FOR FEAST OF THE FIELDS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

 

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors for helping make

Feast of the Fields 2011 a success. 

Over $45,000 was raised for farmland, natural areas,

trail corridors and historic places in Saratoga County.

We are so grateful for your support!

Nature Preserve Passport

Get outside and enjoy our trails and preserves!

 

 

The Preserve Passport

is made possible by funding from

Anthony and Nicholas Mitola, and

a grant from the Nordlys Foundation,

with additional support from Price Chopper's Golub Foundation

Like Treasure Hunts? 

Try Letterboxing!

(click for link)

 

Visit 5 preserves and complete

the activity to win a free

P.L.A.N. T-shirt. 

Astrea Ravenstar’s 2nd grade class at Waldorf School.completed 5 preserve letterboxing activitiesand came in for a visit to the PLAN offices to pick up their t-shirts. 

 

The class really enjoyed hiking the trails and finding the “treasure” boxes!

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"In the end,

we will conserve only what we love.
We will love only what we understand.
We will understand only

what we have been taught."


Baba Dioum -- Senegalese Conservationis

 

children & nature logo is used on our site to denote family-friendly events.