2026

Climate-Smart Stewardship: Restoring a Pitch Pine Barren at Madeline Regan Preserve

The 29-acre Madeline Regan Preserve in Tolland is the location of an exciting ongoing conservation project to encourage a climate-resilient habitat through the use of prescribed burns. Upon discovering six healthy pitch pine trees among many dying ones in the white pine-dominant preserve–evidence of a once-larger stand of pitch pine–Joshua’s Trust Stewardship Manager Alex DiMauro-D’Amico […]

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Land Donation–It’s Still a Thing

1 YEAR,3 TOWNS,5 PROPERTIES,232 ACRES, & $0.00 At any given time, the Joshua’s Trust Land Protection team is typically tracking between 10 and 20 properties that could result in either owning land outright or holding conservation easements that protect the land from development or abuse. After 60 years of doing this important work, we’re accustomed

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Joshua’s Trust News | April 2026

Hot off the press! The first Joshua’s Trust newsletter of 2026 has landed. Inside, read about some recent & inspiring land donations, ongoing habitat restoration projects, our local watershed, updates at the historic Atwood Orchard, our upcoming program calendar, and more. Do you want to receive the next newsletter in your mailbox? Update your contact

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April Fools 101

Over the course of our six-year conversation, I’ve shared some far-fetched stories. I told you that a meteor once fell in the Madeline Regan Preserve (The Sky Was Falling) and that earthquakes were increasing in our locale, the big one due soon (Shake, Rattle, and Roll). I swore I heard the ghostly cry of Elizabeth

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