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Otsego Land Trust Protects 135 Acres on Butternut Creek

Private landowners have a variety of reasons for working with Otsego Land Trust to conserve their land in perpetuity. Otsego Land Trust works with property owners to identify the key conservation values and draft a legally binding easement that expresses their vision for the land. Clearey recently explained his interest and motivation.…
April 3, 2025

Parties Meet To Consider Uses for, Conservation of Former Boy Scout Camp

An information sheet distributed by Farmer and titled “Crumhorn Communities Hub” stated: Otsego County Conservation Association, Otsego Land Trust, and Otsego Rural Housing Assistance are proposing a multi-faceted project to create an environmental education center, develop a Community Resiliency and Resource Center, and assist underserved community members with health, safety, and energy efficiency repairs on their homes.”…
August 28, 2024

Exeter Landowner Preserves 79 Acres, Land Trust Reports

Exeter Landowner Preserves 79 Acres, Land Trust Reports COOPERSTOWN – Pam Lea, a veterinarian for 40 years, has completed a conservation easement on her 79 acres of forests, hills, farmland, creeks and wetlands in the Town of Exeter, the Otsego Lake Trust announced yesterday. “I bought my property in 1998 and have grown quite attached to it,” she said, “with its creek, wetlands, open fields and trails. The peace and quiet there is indescribable. I figured the best way to…
January 4, 2018

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

Visit our “subscribe” page and select your charity of choice at checkout