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A Quiet Addition to a Lasting Legacy: Sand Hill Loop at Palmetto Bluff

In December 2025, NALT quietly recorded a conservation easement on 12 acres known as the Sand Hill Loop at Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton. Although modest in size, this tract represents a much larger conservation story—one rooted in a progressive development vision and a 25-year commitment to protecting the natural character of the Lowcountry. From the outset, NALT has

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Limited Development, NALT News, Stories From the Land

Last undeveloped woods, “Whitman Woods,” permanently conserved as Laurel Lake Preserve

A long and winding conservation effort has been realized. On January 16, 2026, South Jersey Land & Water Trust finalized the permanent preservation of the woodland along Laurel Lake where Walt Whitman once found inspiration, and where generations of local families have spent time exploring the timeworn trails and shoreline. Protecting the Laurel Springs, New

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NALT News, Stories From the Land, Whitman Woods

Small Acreage at Shy’s Hill has large impact for Conservation in Tennessee

Authored by Laura Sylvester  Conversations around land conservation often, inevitably, wander their way into statistics at some point, with total conserved acreage usually at the top of the statistics pile.  The numbers can be dizzying at times, making it easy to equate impact with total acres.    North American Land Trust (NALT) knows all too well that sometimes, small projects with fewer acres can hold incredible historic and natural

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Two individuals walking Colonial Trail at Brinton Run Preserve with an open meadow in the distance

North American Land Trust Announces New Pet Policy at Brinton Run Preserve

Leashed Dogs Now Welcome on Preserve Trails Chadds Ford, PA — December 18, 2025 — North American Land Trust (NALT) is pleased to announce a significant and long-awaited update to its public use policies at Brinton Run Preserve: beginning this month, leashed dogs will now be permitted on all preserve trails. This marks the first

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Brinton Run Preserve, NALT News

NALT’s Copano Cove Preserve, Protecting Vital Ecosystems along the Texas Coast, opens to the Public

ROCKPORT, TEXAS – Every spring, millions of raptors, songbirds and shore birds congregate along the Gulf Coast of Texas during their migration journeys from South America heading inland across the United States. The Texas coast is a critical ecosystem offering these avian travellers coastlines, bays and marshes as vital layovers during their long voyages. “Texas

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NALT News, Stories From the Land

NALT Dedicates “Baldino Family History and Nature Center” at Brinton Run Preserve in Chadds Ford, PA

Welcome home. That was the greeting given to the Baldino family at a building dedication ceremony recently held at Brinton Run Preserve, a 71-acre historic public preserve where the final skirmish of the 1777 Battle of Brandywine was fought. Sandra Baldino and her late husband, Frank Baldino Jr., Ph.D., owned the property and raised their

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Brinton Run Preserve, NALT News, Stories From the Land
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