Peconic Land Trust Archives - Riverhead News Review

11.18.2023 Environment

Land Trust preserves Broad Cove

Almost a century ago, a 100-acre property along Hubbard Avenue in Aquebogue was home to the Broad Cove duck farm on Flanders Bay. When that business was no longer...

06.20.2023 News

Peconic Land Trust expanding trail network into Riverhead

Peconic Land Trust’s network of trails is spreading into Riverhead Town this year. Last month, the 40-year-old nonprofit dedicated to protecting land received a $61,200 stewardship and resource management...

05.07.2023 Editorials

Editorial: Two local groups are saving land and history

Across the East End, the Peconic Land Trust has preserved more than 14,000 acres of fertile farmland and open space. Our farmland is the rich loam the glaciers left...

03.15.2023 News

Proposed Wading River development may be preserved

The Central Square application on Route 25A in Wading River appears to be headed for preservation and not development, as was originally planned. Officials say the front half of...

12.22.2022 Environment

After more than three decades in preservation, Tim Caufield retires from Peconic Land Trust

Although Orient resident Timothy Caufield came to work with the Peconic Land Trust purely by chance — through a friend of its president, John Halsey — he fit in...

01.27.2022 News

Peconic Land Trust acquires former duck farm property in Aquebogue, securing the conservation of 100 acres

The Peconic Land Trust has acquired the former duck farm property in Aquebogue known as Broad Cove, bringing an end to a longtime effort to preserve the waterfront parcel...

10.27.2021 Agriculture

Condzella’s Farm in Wading River partners with Peconic Land Trust for preservation effort

In the early 1900s, John Condzella’s great-grandfather William and his wife, Mary, immigrated to the United States from Poland and soon purchased farm property in Wading River. They grew...

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