Environmental Professionals Month, April 22nd feature: This April, we have celebrated our Environmental Professionals with new videos of Winnakee staff out in the field doing incredible work for our region’s future. With a deeper understanding of how and why Winnakee Land Trust’s environmental professionals achieve transformative conservation outcomes, will you consider a gift today to... Read More
THE CANOPY – Winnakee News, Spring 2025
In this issue: View FULL EDITION Winnakee Awarded Grants by Our Partner Scenic Hudson Winnakee Will Offer New Trails and Landowner Workshops at “Robert’s Refuge” The Understory Blog: Spring is Turtle Time! April is Environmental Professionals Month: See videos of our staff in action! Featured Upcoming Event: Waterman Bird Walk at Vlei
Environmental Professionals Month, April 14th feature: Laura O’Brien CONSERVATION PROJECT MANAGER Winnakee was able to protect 350 additional acres of high priority lands in 2024. This year, we’re on track to do even more with your help.” What: I’m responsible for new land protection projects. This includes donations and purchases of lands and conservation easements.... Read More
Winnakee awarded grants by our partner Scenic Hudson
Through this combination of public-private funding sources, as well as support from other local partners, Winnakee Land Trust will be able to advance strategic conservation goals of climate resilience, landscape connectivity and biodiversity. At the landscape scale, preserving and stewarding large intact forests, connected corridors of wildlife habitat, and contiguous complexes of wetlands and other... Read More
Winnakee will offer new trails and forest management workshops at “Robert’s Refuge”
In 2022, a generous donation of 218 acres of forest and wetland by local landowners to Winnakee Land Trust was a huge step forward in our vision of protecting and enhancing forested lands in our community. The preserve, named Robert’s Refuge in honor of the donor and his love for the land, is located in... Read More
Environmental Professionals Month, April 8th feature: Trevor Keough CONSERVATION FORESTER By donating to Winnakee, you give a voice to a resource that otherwise can’t speak up for itself in a time when it desperately needs it. What: I provide landowners with forestry options, balancing stewardship with financial returns and generating sustainable options for future benefits.... Read More
Spring is Turtle Time
IMPROVING HABITAT FOR WILDLIFE By Jen Adams, Director of Land Stewardship Turtles You Might See in Our Area Dutchess County is home to a variety of turtle species, ranging from common to rare. Among the most frequently spotted are the painted turtle, snapping turtle, box turtle, and sometimes the invasive red-eared slider. Our turtle species... Read More
Environmental Professionals Month features!
This April, we have celebrated our Environmental Professionals with new videos of Winnakee staff out in the field doing incredible work for our region’s future. With a deeper understanding of how and why Winnakee Land Trust’s environmental professionals achieve transformative conservation outcomes, will you consider a gift today to support their work? 1st Feature: I... Read More
International Day of the Forest 2025 newsletter
This International Day of the Forest, Winnakee is highlighting the importance of young forests. Learn about why they are disappearing, why we need them and what Winnakee is doing about it!
Highlighting the importance of young forests
This International Day of the Forest, Winnakee is highlighting the importance of young forests. Many animals need young forest and shrubland for foraging and breeding, including rare and imperiled animals like the New England cottontail and golden-winged warbler, as well as more abundant wildlife. Forests today also face unprecedented challenges that hinder their natural regeneration. Winnakee recognizes... Read More