Link to: News News PRESS RELEASE Northeast Wilderness Trust Announces Promotion of Jon Leibowitz to President and CEO, New Leadership Structure, and Hiring of Nicie Panetta to Vice President of Advancement 20 February, 2024  Montpelier, VT – In support of its ambitious goals in forever-wild land conservation across the region, the Board of Directors of Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT) has voted to appoint Jon Leibowitz, formerly Executive Director, the organization’s first President and CEO. Under Leibowitz’s leadership since 2017 NEWT has conserved approximately 56,000 acres acr ..read more

Link to: News News REWILDING, WILDLIFE, NEWTS FROM THE FIELD Rewilding In Practice Wilderness, as a place, is clearly defined. It’s a place that is free of human influence. Getting to that point, though, is not as cut and dry. After European settlers arrived, the Northeast changed dramatically. (There are old tales of squirrels being able to travel from the Atlantic to the Mississippi in treetops without dropping to the ground, but today we have highways, shopping centers, and cleared lots preventing that.) Considering that fact, Northeast Wilderness Trust’s (NEWT) mission to create w ..read more

Link to: News News PRESS RELEASE, VERMONT, CARBON & CLIMATE CHANGE Conservation partners conserve wildlands and woodlands to advance climate and community goals A block of over 4,700 acres of wilderness and managed forests in Richford and Jay has been permanently protected, the Vermont Land Trust (VLT), The Nature Conservancy in Vermont (TNC) and Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT) announced today. Located on the north- and west-facing slopes of the Green Mountains, the newly protected land adds to a network of nearly 10,000 acres of unfragmented, protected forest ..read more

Link to: News News PRESS RELEASE, VERMONT, CARBON & CLIMATE CHANGE Sargent Hill Wilderness Preserve, a bastion of biodiversity, is protected as forever-wild in Hubbardton, Vermont Hubbardton, Vermont…Northeast Wilderness Trust has announced the creation of the Sargent Hill Wilderness Preserve. Support for the project was provided by a generous donation of 200 acres by the Ferguson family as well as support from individual donors and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Vermont. Partnerships help forever-wild conservation happen The late Dick Ferguson and his wife, Hadley Ferguso ..read more

Link to: News News PRESS RELEASE, MAINE, CARBON & CLIMATE CHANGE Great Oaks Wilderness Preserve: 533 acres of resilient and mature forest protected in Maine as forever-wild Parsonsfield, ME…Northeast Wilderness Trust has announced the creation of the Great Oaks Wilderness Sanctuary. This diverse and exemplary landscape has been permanently protected as forever-wild. Support for the project was provided by a generous donation of land by the Lougee Family; a dedicated fund at Northeast Wilderness Trust for the establishment of wilderness sanctuaries; as well as support from individua ..read more

Link to: News News REWILDING, WILDLIFE, NEWTS FROM THE FIELD New Research Reveals Broad Public Support for Species Restoration New research conducted by Northeast Wilderness Trust in collaboration with national and international partners delves into the critical role of governance in addressing the biodiversity crisis in the United States. Published in the journal BioScience, the newly released research paper “The role of governance in rewilding the United States to stem the biodiversity crisis” (Carlson et al. 2023) drew on survey results of 3,589 residents in Colorado, Maine, Massac ..read more

Link to: News News NEW HAMPSHIRE, COMMUNITY CONSERVATION, FEATURED NEWS, REWILDING Wilderness within reach: the Town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, protects 142 acres within walking distance of town “Each town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest of five hundred or a thousand acres, where a stick should never be cut for fuel, a common possession forever, for instruction and recreation.” Henry David Thoreau, Journal. October 15, 1859 Thanks to the foresight of the Town of Jaffrey in New Hampshire, residents and visitors alike will have a wild park for “instruction and recre ..read more

Link to: News News REWILDING, WILDLIFE, NEWTS FROM THE FIELD NEWTs from the Field: Stewardship program meets at Grasse River Wilderness Preserve The regional Stewardship Team of Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT) gathered recently at a New York preserve to do boundary marking and learn more about both the land and local denizens who call this forever-wild place their home. The Stewardship team includes Sophie Ehrhardt, Vermont Land Steward; Joe Falconeiri, Southern New England Land Steward; Hannah Epstein, Stewardship Director; Becky Clough, . They gathered at the Grasse River Wilderne ..read more

Link to: News News REWILDING, WILDLIFE, NEWTS FROM THE FIELD, WILDLANDS ECOLOGY Wildlands Ecology program hosted three BioBlitz events this fall Discovering who else lives in our forests is something we can do on our own, but it’s even more fun to share. Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT) hosted three Bioblitz events at Woodbury Mountain Wilderness Preserve in Vermont where 28 humans shared the joy of connecting to nonhuman species that are free to be when land is allowed to rewild. Eric Bailey, Wildlands Ecology Fellow at Northeast Wilderness Trust, organized the community BioBlitz eve ..read more

Link to: News News PRESS RELEASE, VERMONT, CARBON & CLIMATE CHANGE Northeast Wilderness Trust hosts first Learning Circle book group Northeast Wilderness Trust is launching our first Learning Circle book group in January 2024.  The Learning Circle will meet virtually four times between January and March. The intention for this new offering is to engage in community learning and reinforce the importance of rewilding, while getting to know each other. For this first Learning Circle we will be reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s, Braiding Sweetgrass. As a botanist, Kimmerer was trained ..read more