One of our conservation priorities is to maintain and enhance the Southern Vermont Wildlife Corridor, a regionally significant landscape connection through the southern Green Mountains. Protected lands within the corridor link the Green Mountain National Forest with state-owned and privately conserved lands, providing connected habitat for black bear, moose, and other wildlife. The corridor also helps sustain Vermont’s working landscape and opportunities for public recreation. Mount Holly lies near the heart of this important north-south wildlife connection.
Maple Crossing
On December 12, 2025, the Mount Holly Conservation Trust purchased the 33.5-acre Maple Crossing parcel along Route 100. Located between Awasos Wildlife Management Area and Okemo State Forest, the property protects an important connection between conserved lands as well as forest, headwater streams, and wildlife habitat.
MHCT plans to convey Maple Crossing to the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, completing the protected connection between Awasos WMA and Okemo State Forest.
Breton Tract
On March 21, 2025, the Mount Holly Conservation Trust completed the purchase of the Breton Tract near the end of Greendale Road. Its forests and wetlands provide important wildlife habitat while preserving opportunities for public access and quiet outdoor recreation.
The property is protected in honor of Harvey A. Breton and his love of conservation and the outdoors.
South Mountain Andover Lot
On July 24, 2024, the Mount Holly Conservation Trust, building on the recent success of the Doolittle South Mountain Lands, purchased 12 acres in the northwest corner of Andover to secure a critical wildlife corridor across Vermont Route 100.
In December 2024, this land was sold to the Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife and added to the Awasos WMA.
Doolittle/South Mountain
On December 14, 2022, the Mount Holly Conservation Trust and the State of Vermont completed the project to protect forever a 440-acre property in Mount Holly and Weston that connects two previously separated blocks of Okemo State Forest. The land is now a new Wildlife Management Area.
Okemo Wildlife Corridor
The Mount Holly Conservation Trust, the Vermont Land Trust, and the State of Vermont protected a 346-acre property in Mount Holly that connects the Green Mountain National Forest with Okemo State Forest. This helps ensure that animals, increasingly on the move due to climate change, will have the uninterrupted habitat they need—a safe corridor—for traveling to find food, mates, and new territory. It is now part of Okemo State Forest.
P.K. Brown
Easements were purchased for the P.K. Brown parcel (400+/- acres), located in Mount Holly on the Ludlow town line at Buttermilk Falls. The Mount Holly Conservation Trust provided financial assistance to clean up and preserve this highly visible property at the head of Buttermilk Falls, thereby protecting stream quality within the wildlife corridor.
Richard Anderson Property
In 2008, the Conservation Fund purchased this 506-acre property with financial support from the Mount Holly Conservation Trust. This spectacular and highly visible parcel of valley and mountainside is located along Branch Brook Road. This location, adjacent to Okemo State Forest, provides important contiguous habitat protection for bear, moose, beaver, and other wildlife.