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North Branford Land Conservation Trust
“Throughout the world, communities can support and develop local land trusts to assist in the development of biodiversity islands by supporting landowners in putting their land into conservation” – Florencia Montagnini, Biodiversity Islands: Strategies for Conservation in Human-Dominated Environments
Florencia Montagnini, North Branford Land Conservation Trust (NBLCT) member and author, featured NBLCT in her recently published book, Biodiversity Islands: Strategies for Conservation in Human-Dominated Environments as an exemplary representation of community involvement to conserve land as open space. She discussed the 26-acre donation of the Harrison Farm Preserve to NBLCT to be protected and preserved in its natural state in perpetuity – land that otherwise would have been desired for development. Under the ownership of NBLCT, the farm now serves as a “true biodiversity island in an otherwise suburban landscape”…
