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After five years of exemplary leadership, Julia Farr has stepped down from her role as Executive Director of the Kingston Land Trust (KLT). She has passed her responsibilities to the staff shared leadership team who have guided the organization with her for the past two years.
Over her...
-- Harambee establishes a conservation easement with the Kingston Land Trust to forever protect the sacred site--
Today, title to the site of the African Burial Ground on Pine Street in Kingston was transferred to the African-American heritage organization, Harambee, from the Kingston Land Trust (KLT) with...
-- To preserve forested limestone terrain, historic quarry and lime kilns for ecological management and community engagement--
The Kingston Land Trust (KLT) has protected six acres of forest and an historic quarry and lime kilns in the City of Kingston’s hamlet of Wilbur. The land acquired by the...
We are committed to centering the voices and needs of people of color, and specifically Black people, in our work around land access, Ownership, livelihood through the land, and land conservation.
Partnering with and Sponsoring Black-led Organizations:
Harambee: We partnered on the protection of the Pine Street...
Looking for a way to improve your community’s health and promote conservation at the same time? You could try planting fruit trees in the floodplain. This was the idea behind Kingston Land Trust’s edible stream buffer along the banks of the Esopus Creek.
Stream buffers help prevent flooding by providing...