○ Members, please review these proposed bylaws for discussion at our annual membership meeting to be held in the spring. Home Come hiking with us -- see our Events page -- or enjoy our properties on your own: Self-guiding trail maps for our properties are on our Maps and Flyers page. General info: call 860-643-1823 or email info@manchesterlandtrust.org Be a part of land preservation! Join, volunteer, donate to the Manchester Land Conservation Trust, a nonprofit, publicly supported organization dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, and maintenance of open space lands and water resources in Manchester and surrounding towns, protecting habitat for animal, bird, and plant life. The Trust's property includes forest, meadow, ponds, and a historic rail trail in Manchester, Bolton, East Hartford, Glastonbury, and Vernon. The Trust promotes conservation and a love of the outdoors by leading free hikes on its properties, and supports hiking, bicycling, snowshoeing, fishing, birdwatching, and other healthful activities on our properties of sufficient size. We welcome members and supporters. Land Trust Photo of the Month - May 2024 58a. Jeff Sullivan and Bill Doak took these photos at the Earth Day cleanup party organized by the Land Trust at Center Springs Park and the Cheney rail trail. Thank you to all the volunteers, including employee groups from Amazon (eight volunteers pictured) and Cox Communications. Individuals (unidentified volunteer pictured) and Land Trust board members participated. The Town supported the effort with trucks that picked up the trash. For a larger view please click here. 58b. (Unidentified helper.) . For a larger view, please click here. Celebrating our Land Trust properties with photographs from our members and friends. All are invited to submit high-resolution photos for consideration as our featured Land Trust Photo of the Month! No prizes, but gratitude to the photographer, and gratitude for our protected open space lands in the Manchester area. All photos chosen (there may be up to 2 per month) will be retained and accessible in our Monthly Photos Index. Send your photographs via email to info@manchesterlandtrust.org and include your name, the date of photo, its location (one of our Land Trust Properties) and what you like about that particular Property. We'll review them and make the selection of this month's Photo(s) on or about the 20th of the month. (Note: Please put LAND TRUST PHOTO OF THE MONTH or something similar in the Subject area of your email submission. Thank you!)

Farm on Bush Hill Road Hikers at our Bush Hill farm, which you can explore with this Self-Guiding Map. Stickney Hill Preserve Check out the Stickney Hill Self-Guiding Map to take a stroll on your own, at this 15.9-acre property in Rockville.   Cheney Railroad Check out the self-guiding trail map for the historic railroad by clicking here. Salter's Pond There's a loop trail around Salter's Pond -- explore with this self-guiding map.