As the Wyndham Land Trust, Inc. celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025 it has an interest in approximately 6,400 acres spread out through ten towns. In the last ten years it has acquired over 4,000 acres and has become one of, if not the largest, non-governmental landowners in Northeast Connecticut. It is an incredible success story due to the many diverse dedicated low-profile volunteers who quietly and tenaciously go about the required work with a single-minded goal and mission of holding the ever-changing environmental pressures at bay.
If WLT is successful then the road views and landscape do not change so it is easy to not notice how much has been accomplished, but there is always more to be done. There are exciting projects in the pipeline and the dedication of the many faceted Board has not wavered or lost its intensity. Change is inevitable and a new generation will be required to take leadership in the future, much like the founders in 1975 have been succeeded by committed and talented volunteers.
The new membership and leadership will arrive to carry on the mission of those mentioned above because the mission is one so righteous and beneficial that it cannot fail. May the future of the Wyndham Land Trust be as fortunate in the next fifty years as it has in its first.