Protected Properties
One of the most important things that Aspetuck Land Trust does is preserve land.
We want to acknowledge the following individuals who made the decision to
preserve their land in perpetuity for the benefit of future generations:
Town of Easton
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust: William J. Kupinse, Jr. and Patricia Kupinse Preserve, 2023
$470,000 - 18.7 acres
The Bresky Family, 2023
Blithewood Preserve - 29 acres
Diane Rowland, 2024
Wheeler Wildflower Preserve - 1 acre
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust: Gilbertie’s Farm, 2020
$2 million – 34 acres
Joan DuPont, 2011
Randalls Farm Preserve — 35 acres
Elisa and Roger Piscitelli, 2006
Elise Scherer Piscitelli Preserve — 3.5 acres
Charles & Maron Lieb, 2000
Charles and Maron Lieb Open Space Conservation Easement — 20 acres
Easton Ponds, LLC, 1999
Abbey Lane Fishing Pond — 1.80 acres
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust: Four Corners, 1999
$250,000 — 27.82 acres
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust: Trout Brook Valley, 1999
$11.3million — 684 acres
Holly Bannister and Doug Newhouse, 1997
Pfeiffer Pond Conservation Easement — 2 acres
Anonymous, 1997
Jump Hill Preserve-Part of Trout Brook Valley Conservation Area — 117 acres
Anonymous, 1994
Crow Hill Preserve-Part of Trout Brook Valley Conservation Area - 162 acres
Elinor Poindexter, 1993
Poindexter Preserve — 36 acres
Bernice Finklestone, 1992
Warner Anglers Preserve #1 Finklestone
Conservation Easement — 1 acre
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust: Warner Anglers Preserve #3, 1991
$14,621 — 3.11 acres
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust : Warner Anglers Preserve #2, 1991
$17,269 — 0.6 acres
Trident Engineering & Development, 1979
Gregory Farm Open Space — 3.7 acres
Ralph D. Paine, Jr., 1976
Pond View and Island Pond Preserves — 11 acres
Town of Westport
Cavanagh Family, 2025
Eno Marsh Addition — 8.3 acres
Kevin O’Halloran, 2017
Eno Marsh Preserve — 0.72 acres
Partnership with Town of Westport, 2010
Newman Poses Preserve — 39 acres
Leon C. Hirsch, 2003
Hirsch Subdivision Pedestrian Easement — 0.3 acres
Leo Nevas, 2002
Lees Canal Wetlands Habitat — 5.3 acres
Estate of Caryl Parker Haskins, 2002
Caryl & Edna Haskins Preserve — 16 acres
Elaine Schanzenbach, Timothy Romano & Gary Jackson, 2001
Mayflower Pkwy Open Space — 1.8 acres
Leo Nevas & Leah S. Greenberg, 1998
Nevas Wetland Habitat — 13.8 acres
Jack Stock and Siblings, 1995
Mitchell B. Stock Wildlife Habitat — 1.1 acres
Hillavon Rebay Trust, 1995
Hillavon Rebay Arboretum — 8.6 acres
Caroline Lehn Gieges, 1991
Lehn Farm Open Space — 2 acres
Nature Conservancy, 1990
Canfield Island Marsh — 1.7 acres
Gerard Nucera, 1990
Sturges Woods Open Space — 4 acres
Purchased by ALT: Addition to Walter D. Allen Salt Marsh Hicks Property, 1989
$40,264 — 6.7 acres
Frank Harsche and Mary Bellino, 1988
Harborview Open Space — 1.6 acres
Sherwood Farms Development Corp, 1988
Talcot Wakeman Wildlife Habitat — 17.1 acres
Jaime & Susan Moreno, 1987
Taylortown Salt Marsh — 3.2 acres
Christian J. Trefz, 1986
Bermuda Salt Marsh — 1 acre
Larry Weisman, 1986
Peters Gate Open Space — 6.1 acres
Franc Vitale, 1985
Vitale Open Space — 1 acre
Charles M & Ilse Cortright Widmer, 1984
Widmer Open Space — 1 acre
The Nature Conservancy, 1984
Walter D. Allen Salt Marsh — 6.1 acres
Joel & Roberta Wise, 1981
Wise Open Space — 2 acres
Susan M. Staib McColl, 1980
McColl Open Space — 0.7 acres
Martin Greenberg, 1978
Signal Lake Open Space — 8.1 acres
Eno Foundation, 1976
Eno Marsh Preserve — 14.3 acres
Hortense Wolfson, 1976
Wolfson Streamside Preserve — 2.1 acres
Hobart & Mary Van Deusen, 1975
Van Deusen Open Space — 2 acres
Adelaide N. Baker, 1971
Guard Hill Nature Preserve — 5.7 acres
Katharine W. Holmes, 1970
Hemlock Kettle on the Saugatuck — 1.0 acres
Audrey T. Townsend, 1970
North Woods Nature Preserve — 6.9 acres
John Codman Sr. & Constance Codman Brooks, 1970
Sherwood Mill Pond Wildlife Refuge — 13.4 acres
Purchased by the Land Trust: Leonard Schine Preserve, 1967
$153,387 — 20 acres
Town of Bridgeport
Purchased by the Land Trust, 2005
Great Salt Marsh Island — 7 acres
$22,500
Town of Redding
Highstead, 2025
Highstead Conservation Easement — 167 acres
Jerrold and Sally Fine, 2016
Fine Open Space 13.7 — acres
Diane Jennings Mayo, 2006
Jennings Nature Preserve — 52 acres
Town of Wilton
Elaine & Christopher Plummer, 2025
Plummer Property Addition to WWFR — 15.8 acres
Per Ola and Emily D'Aulaire and Natalie Starr, 2024
Rock of Caves Addition to the Weston Wilton Forest Reserve — 5.4 acres
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” - John Muir
Town of Fairfield
Paul and Betsy Shiverick, 2016
Harbor Road, Easement — 0.65 acres
Purchased by ALT: Southport Beach Open Space, 2015
$105,000 — 0.7 acres
Jean Baldridge Uehlinger, 2013
The Go Between Open Space — 5 acres
Gibney Patterson, 2004
Gibney Patterson Open Space — 7 acres
Kathleen and Bruce Czapla, 2004
Czapla Open Space — 7 acres
Virginia Sanford, 2002
Virginia Sanford Conservation Restriction — 6 acres
John Koren, 2000
Southport Harbor Conservation Restriction — .47 acres
Samuel Bell and Martin Greenberg, 1999
Aspetuck River Fishing Access — .248 acres
Louise H. Benton Wagner Trust, 1998
Kensie Point Conservation Easement Wagner — 11 acres
Katherine Reigel Emory, 1997
Kensie Point Conservation Easement Emory — 6 acres
Cordelia Rudkin, 1995
Cordelia Rudkin Wildlife Habitat — 8 acres
David Sanders And Estate of Theodore Ruderman, 1995
Wellington Drive Open Space — 2 acres
Jack Stock and Siblings, 1995
Mitchell B. Stock Wildlife Habitat — 5 acres
Ruth Berlin, 1992
Berlin Hay Field — 22 acres
Philip and Fran Snyder, 1992
Putnam Preserve — 8 acres
Lobdell Family, 1991
Lobdell Calf Pond Preserve — 4 acres
Mark and Cecile Noel, 1990
Noel Open Space — 5 acres
Ernest Hillman, Jr. 1988
Ernest Hillman Jr. Preserve — 10 acres
Ruth Berlin, 1987
Berlin Hay Field — 14 acres
Cal Munson, 1986
Butkus Pond Preserve — 4 acres
Edward F and Genevieve Kirik, 1984
Kirik Upland Preserve — 7 acres
Roswell F. Barratt, 1981
Sasqua Wildflower Preserve — 0.31 acres
Sybil H. Harwood, 1975
Harwood Preserve — 15 acres
H. Thomas Cavanaugh and William C. Keator, 1974
Acorn Lane Upland Preserve — 5 acres
Town of Weston
Barbara Belknap, 2025
Belknap I Addition to WWFR — 10.5 acres
Peter and Svetlana Eliot, 2023
Kettle Creek Road — 13 acres
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust: Fromson Strassler Property, 2021
$1,143,750 — 85 acres
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust: Montanaro Property, 2021 (Wilton)
$612,500 — 10 acres
Kevin and Linda Bartlett, 2019
Addition to Singing Oaks Preserve — 2.33 acres
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust, 2017
Bargain Sale from Belknap Trust
Addition to Honey Hill Preserve — 38 acres
$367,770
Purchased by Aspetuck Land Trust, 2015
Mola Open Space — 15.5 acres
$100,000
Howard Aibel, 2014
Aibel Open Space — 6 acres
Hope Evangelical Free Church, 2012
Hope Church Open Space — 1 acre
Estate of Elisabeth Moore, 2002
Elisabeth Luce Moore Nature Preserve — 28 acres
Kenneth & Susan Von Kohorn, 2001
Beaver Brook Open Space — 1.8 acres
Town of Weston, 1999
Trout Brook Valley Bradley Road Access Easement — 44.5 acres
Holly Bannister and Doug Newhouse, 1999
Pfeiffer Pond Conservation Restriction — 5.9 acres
Richard & Joyce Pauker and Thomas St. Denis, 1997
Byebrook Open Space — 8.1 acres
Shilepsky Family, 1995
Nathan and Julia Shilepsky Open Space — 4.1 acres
Purchased by the Land Trust, 1995
Thorne Wildlife Habitat, — 2.9 acres
$195,000
Greenfield Planning Group, Leon Schonberg, 1995
Winthrop Hills Open Space — 2.7 acres
Pequot Development Corp, 1994
Tall Pines Nature Preserve — 11.4 acres
Mr. & Mrs. John Ebbott, 1993
Ebbott Open Space - 3.6 acres
Joseph Gjuresko, 1993
Gjuresko Wetland Habitat — 4 acres
M.H. Builders— 1993
Heine Wetland Habitat - 0.9 acres
Robert & Betty Foreman, 1992
Foreman Open Space — 6.1 acres
Charles Niewenhouse, 1992
Niewenhouse Wetland Habitat — 2.6 acres
Basil D. Rissolo Inc., 1992
Hackberry Wetland Habitat — 2 acres
Joseph G. Barata, 1991
Barata Easement
Singing Oaks Associates, 1991
Singing Oaks Nature Preserve — 18 acres
Anson Morton, 1991
Lillian Squires Morton Preserve - 3.6 acres
Charles Niewenhous, 1991
Niewenhous Open Space - 2.9 acres
Fyber Properties, 1989
Soundview Wildlife Habitat — 6.9 acres
Terraspace Partners, 1988
Beaver Swamp/ Terraspace OpenSpace — 8.7 acres
Associated Builders, 1988
Laurel Ridge Open Space — 2.6 acres
Peter Voulgarakis, 1986-7, 1991
Old Easton Swamp — 3.7 acres
Old Farm Associates, 1987
Raynor Creek Open Space — 1.8 acres
Walden Pond Association, 1987
Walden Pond Open Space — 1.4 acres
Michael Greenberg, 1987
Fritz Reiner Open Space — 3.2 acres
John Denham, Neil Callaghan, 1987
Jennings Woods Preserve — 10.9 acres
Stephen Rapaport, 1986-7
Walter F. Wagner Preserve — 12.6 acres
Paul & Jeff Tallman, 1986
Buck Hill Swamp — 2 acres
Olly Mattera Contracting Co., 1986
Nimrod Open Space — 2.3 acres
Norman J. Cloutier, 1986
Ledgebrook Swamp — 6 acres
Robert E. Fuller, 1985
Pinefields Open Space — 4 acres
Greenfield Planning/CN Builders, 1985
Greenfields II Swamp — 6.3 acres
Marjorie Fischel, 1985
Godfrey Woods Open Space — 11 acres
Craig Calhoun, Crosswicks Corp, 1985
Crosswicks Open Space — 0.8 acres
Curtis and Norma Benjamin, 1985
Benjamin Wildflower Preserve — 4 acres
Martin Greenberg and Samuel Bell, 1984/1989, 1991
Bernhard Upland Preserve and Freeborn Walk Trail — 2.5 acres
Herbert Gordon and Herbert Fane, 1979
White Oak Open Space — 3.2 acres
Norma Minkowitz and Barbara Kokot, 1978
Oakwood Wetland Open Space — 2 acres
Raphael Vogel, 1978
Kettle Creek Park — 1.1 acres
Hans Forland, 1978
Andrews Farm Waterfowl Open Space — 10.3 acres
Martin Greenberg and Samuel Bell, 1978
Messex Open Space — 2.25 acres
Brighton Park Development Corp, 1977
Silvermine Marsh Open Space — 8.5 acres
Pauline Taylor, Martin Greenberg, 1975
Taylor Woods Preserve — 22.3 acres
Eva LeGallienne, 1969
LeGallienne Bird Sanctuary — 12.4 acres
Alice DeLamar, 1969
Stonebridge Waterfowl Preserve — 21.3 acres
Andre Beaumont, Elise Beaumont French, Christopher Plummer, Howard Fromson,
David Strassler, 1968-2015 Assemblage
Honey Hill Nature Preserve — 81 acres