135 acres of wetlands, fields and forests were protected by conservation easement in the historic and scenic Bean River Valley in Pine Plains.

The protection of this property completes a critical habitat network of 575 protected acres in the area.

Pleasant Valley, 111 acres of forest and valuable breeding habitat were protected by conservation easement. This scenic property is part of a larger contiguous forest that  extends for hundreds of acres and contains 34 acres of statewide important farmland soils.

One of the single greatest land protection efforts in Dutchess County, 1,650 acres in Stanford and Pine Plains were protected by conservation easement. The property not only represents the rural character of Dutchess County, but links a contiguous protected area of more than 4,200 acres in the Towns of Stanford, North East and Pine Plains