Rensselaer Land Trust

05/03/2026

Spring Wildflower Walk at the new Bentleys Karst Preserve in Berlin! For more updates and good news, follow Hudson Taconic Lands!

01/06/2026

Happy New Year! If you're still following this page, it's time to switch over to our active page at Hudson Taconic Lands, as this page will be phased out. There you can keep up with all things local conservation! 🌲

photo of Bentleys Karst Preserve, by Nate Simms

11/21/2025

Support local conservation this giving season through Hudson Taconic Lands Giving Tuesday match challenge!

Now through December 2nd, every Giving Tuesday gift will be matched up to $6,000, allowing your donation to make twice the impact for our land and water!

Your Giving Tuesday gift will support programs like Learning Landscapes — a new initiative to create outdoor classrooms in partnership with Rensselaer County schools — and land conservation across the county, from the Hudson River to the Taconic crest.

We thank HTL members Fred and Mona DeMay for their generous match pledge. With you, we can raise $12,000 — or more — to keep local conservation going strong!

🌲 Donate on our website today! https://hudsontaconic.org/2025/11/07/giving-tuesday-2025/

08/21/2025

Get together with a community of people who love the land like you do—at the Fall Woodland Gala!

The Hudson Taconic Lands Fall Woodland Gala is 5 WEEKS AWAY on Thursday, September 25 at Franklin Plaza Ballroom in downtown Troy! If you haven’t purchased a ticket yet, we hope you’ll consider joining us for our largest annual fundraiser—and if you’re already planning to attend, we encourage you to spread the word to friends!

This year’s gala is sure to be a joyful and inspiring gathering of people who love the land. It’s especially important right now for our conservation work, as some of our federal funding did not come through this year. The gala is a FUN way to keep this work going strong.

Learn more and get your tickets 🎫 https://hudsontaconic.org/ways-to-give/gala/

Hope to see you there!

07/23/2025

The Hudson Taconic Lands (formerly Rensselaer Plateau Alliance & Rensselaer Land Trust) Fall Woodland Gala is coming up on Thursday, September 25! We hope you'll join us in this annual celebration of local conservation. The Gala is our largest annual fundraiser and is vital to keeping this work going. Be sure to follow Hudson Taconic Lands to stay in the loop, and get your tickets today!

Learn more & get your tickets:

Gala Fall Woodland Gala Each year, our Fall Woodland Gala brings our conservation community together to celebrate and support local conservation! As our major annual fundraising event, the Gala hel…

04/25/2025

Still looking for a way to give back to the earth this Earth Week? Join Hudson Taconic Lands tomorrow rain 🌧️ or shine ☀️ to help keep our local drinking water source clean and trash-free! 🌏 💚 Learn more & register:

04/20/2025

Big news! After many months of work, our new Hudson Taconic Lands website is live! You can now find our events, latest news, ways to support conservation and get involved, and much more here. ➡️ Visit www.hudsontaconic.org

🥾 Just in time for spring hiking, you can also find RensCo Outdoors on our website: https://hudsontaconic.org/explore-nature/

This is a new resource designed to make it easier for you to plan an outing anywhere in Rensselaer County. This interactive map features public nature areas open to all (both HTL properties and those owned by others). It’s a work in progress that you, our community, can help build. Notice a public nature areas open that we’re missing? Just let us know and we’ll add it to the map! 🗺️

Happy exploring—online and outdoors, of course 😉!

04/18/2025

GREAT NEWS for our land, water, and commmunities! Follow us at Hudson Taconic Lands to read all about it! We’re phasing out this page, so be sure to find us on our new page and stay connected. 💚

03/14/2025

Some wonderful news today about Poesten Kill Bends Preserve in Troy, the property conserved jointly by RLT and Rensselaer Plateau Alliance before they merged. Head over to our new page—Hudson Taconic Lands—and follow us there for the full story.

03/12/2025

For many years, the Rensselaer Land Trust held its annual membership meeting at Brown's Brewing in downtown Troy. This event was an opportunity for RLT members to gather and share a meal while also conducting some official RLT business. RLT leadership announced the Bill Niemi Conservation Leadership and Volunteer of the Year Awards. After a brief hiatus while Rensselaer Land Trust and Rensselaer Plateau Alliance merged our two organizations to form Hudson Taconic Lands, we are ready to bring back this special event!

You’re invited to our 2025 Spring Banquet for a celebration of spring and all the work we have done together over this past year! 🌸🌻🌹

The Spring Banquet will be held at Brown’s Brewing Revolution Hall in Troy on April 13th, starting at noon. This will be a laid-back event where we can eat yummy food and enjoy each other’s company by the water as we warm up from this icy winter.

Tickets are now available here: https://www.rensselaerplateau.org/2025-spring-banquet