Program areas at SVT
As a regional nonprofit land trust, the organization collaborates with individual landowners, local land trusts, and municipal, state, and federal agencies to protect land for wildlife habitat, passive recreation, agriculture, and forestry. In some cases, the organization acquires property to own and manage as a reservation, and in other cases the organization monitors conservation land owned by others. In either situation, the organization ensures that no unapproved development or other activity takes place on the land.
The organization partners with municipal boards and committees, local land trusts, and state and federal agencies to support one another's conservation goals and to pool resources to enable conservation. In addition, the organization works with landowners who are interested in making long-term conservation plans for their land and participates in non-partisan work to advocate for policies and funding that directly advance the land protection and stewardship of natural areas around the Sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers, as well as in Massachusetts in general.
The stewardship program is responsible for the management of the reservations that the organization owns and for the monitoring and oversight of conservation restrictions. The stewardship program includes ecosystem and habitat protection, maintenance of views, access, and trails, protection of the legacy of the properties, and coordination of the stewardship volunteers.