Vermont Land Trust - Conservation Projects in the Mad River Watershed

Conservation Projects in the Mad River Watershed

Vermont Land Trust Mad River Watershed Office
P.O. Box 471, Waitsfield, VT 05673

(802) 496-3690

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The following conservation project for the
Mad River Watershed region is reported
in VLT's Fall 2007 Newsletter:

20. Newly Conserved Forestland Added to Camel’s Hump State Park
Fayston. Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Conservation easement donation. 105 acres.

In 1995, the Trust for Public Land worked with the Vermont Land Trust and VHCB to conserve 3,120 acres of forestland in an area of Fayston known as Phenn Basin, which is located 2,800 feet above sea level. Of these, 2,695 acres were conveyed to the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation as part of Camel’s Hump State Park. The property is traversed by the Long Trail and the Catamount Trail. This spring, the state negotiated an exchange of 59 acres for an adjacent 164 acres with James and Clair Lathrop. A conservation easement was donated on the land and it was added to Camel’s Hump State Park. The state also received a public access easement on another 650 acres of adjacent lands owned by the Lathrops. Funded by VHCB. (April)

A view of Camel’s Hump from newly conserved land in Phenn Basin
where the VAST and Catamount trails cross the property.

Conservation easements co-held by VLT, Vermont Housing & Conservation Board, and Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets.