The Land Trust held its 2025 Annual Meeting with a review of the past year’s highlights on January 29, 2026. President Chris Leich presented a short slide show to accompany the business meeting, including the re-election of Board members and a Treasurer’s report by Nora Frank. He then recognized retiring Board members John Page and Ted Siegan. He gave a brief history of the acquisition of Elizabeth Island just over 15 years ago, recounted various stewardship activities on the island, and provided updates on our advocacy for conservation of the Mugar property in East Arlington and our monitoring of the conservation restriction on eight acres at Arlington 360, the former Symmes Hospital site.
Guest speaker Robb Johnson, executive director of the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition, described his work with more than 140 land trusts across the state and talked about the power they hold to advocate for land conservation both locally and more broadly. He described MLTC’s commitment to collaborate with Indigenous groups on conservation efforts and its other organizational priorities. View Robb’s slide show.
Robb outlined the policies and goals behind the Nature for Massachusetts campaign and how local land trusts and individuals can get involved. MLTC is holding its annual Land Conservation Conference on Friday, March 13 at UMass Amherst
