The data behind conservation: WRL posts trail counters
By Ellie Davis, 2023 Summer Trail Intern for WRL Williamstown Rural Lands recently invested in a new data collection system with the purchase of three trail counters that will shed light on the volume of foot traffic on the network of trails in Williamstown. This new data will inform how the land trust will choose ...Upcoming Events

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WRL Overview
In this video, actress and Williamstown Theater Festival alumna Jessica Hecht introduces our land trust in northern Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Consider it your invitation to join us at our many WRL properties and events.
Williamstown Rural Lands News
Hardy Souls at WRL Annual Meeting
June 2, 2023Fifty or so hardy people, unfazed by a downpour, attended the Williamstown Rural Lands Annual Meeting for Members held on May 21 at Sheep Hill. We gathered under a big
Farmland conserved, farming preserved on Oblong Road
April 14, 2023WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Through a combined effort of the Town of Williamstown Select Board and peer land trusts, and with generous support from the community, Williamstown Rural Lands (WRL) last
Light and airy
March 20, 2023Dear Public: You may notice that there’s a farmhouse visible now on Cold Spring Road! We’ve had a few tremendous and aging non-native trees removed from the front of our
Land Acknowledgement
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking, hiking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, the Indigenous people of this land. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.
