Recent Success Stories
DeNormandie Woods/Long Hill
In January 2025, Greenbelt successfully purchased 330 acres in Gloucester and Manchester. This acquisition safeguards vital natural habitats, a well-established trail network, and essential watershed lands, ensuring they will remain preserved and protected from development — now and for generations to come.
Evergreen Farm
Greenbelt conserved 32 acres of wildlife habitat, farmland, and forested uplands at Evergreen Farm in West Newbury in 2024. Once a beloved Christmas tree farm, the property was preserved to maintain its legacy as agricultural land while protecting crucial habitat for the critically endangered Blanding’s Turtle.
Mount Hunger – Lyasis Pond
In 2024, Greenbelt acquired 90 acres in Essex and Gloucester from the Pennoyer family, protecting vital wildlife habitat, a tributary to the Great Marsh, and public access to a popular trail network. The acquisition also expanded protected forestland, safeguarding Gloucester’s drinking water and connecting 600-plus acres of conserved land.
Parsonage Hill/Viburnum Woods
In 2024, Greenbelt preserved more than 90 acres of woodlands and stream habitat at Parsonage Hill in Haverhill. The area boasts mature hardwood trees, a thriving understory of native viburnums, ferns, and wildflowers, as well as Camp Brook, a tributary of the Merrimack River. A network of trails links the property to an adjacent Greenbelt-owned open space, and the two conservation areas will collectively be named “Viburnum Woods.”
Sawmill Brook
Greenbelt, in partnership with the Town of West Newbury, conserved 32 acres adjacent to the Mill Pond Conservation Area in 2023. This land acquisition enhances the trail network connecting Mill Pond and Pipestave Hill, protects the water quality of Mill Pond, and safeguards vital wildlife habitat, wetlands, and scenic upland forests — all critical for climate change resilience.