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Natural history author Todd McLeish will introduce the remarkable lives of the rarest and most endangered wildlife in New England, from birds and beetles to whales and plants. He will take his audience along on an entertaining first-person journey as he tracks basking sharks, collects biopsy samples from humpback whales, investigates the nesting burrows of elusive…

If you have missed the great Antique Auto Show at the Barn the past year or two, relax!  it returns to the Barn this summer, on Sunday, July 10th.

The antique auto show has been a very popular event in the past, and this year, as it returns to the Barn, we want to make…

The South Kingstown Land Trust is very excited to announce our effort to buy the development rights to the 40-acre Whaley Farm on Jerry Brown Farm Road, and once again, three years later, we will need your help to ‘save the farm!’ Protection of the Whaley farm will connect a 113-acre corridor of…

In 1968, two intrepid adventurers headed for Patagonia in South America.  They were best friends, Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins, and their epic journey inspired filmmaker Jeff Johnson to recreate their remarkable travels in this 2010 movie.  This is a film about how, why and what the original pair did about saving, “the last wild…

Thanks to generous support from The Champlin Foundations, the Roddy-Holden Foundation, Robert T. Blakely, and the GFWC Women’s Club of South County critical repairs have been made to the turbine assembly and sluiceway of the South Kingstown Land Trust’s historic Samuel E. Perry Grist Mill. The 125-year-old turbine is the main power source for the…

Thanks to all of you, SKLT has preserved thousands of acres of beautiful farmlands, woodlands, and hiking trails throughout South Kingstown. Currently, we have a big wave of land protection projects in the works – 150 acres in five different projects.  Some will provide opportunities to expand our trail system. As our acreage increases, as…