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For immediate release January 22, 2025 TWELVE ACRES RECENTLY CONSERVED The Mount Holly Conservation Trust has done it again!! The Mount Holly Conservation Trust (MHCT) purchased approximately 12 acres in the northwest corner of Andover to protect a critical wildlife link across Route 100. The purchase was from Travis and Ann Zissu in late July to provide better wildlife access to forests on either side of Route 100 where the Towns of Mount Holly, Ludlow, Andover and Weston intersect. The Zissu's had an approved subdivision plan from the Town of Andover to construct four houses. In order to protect wildlife access between large tracts of forest on either side of Route 100, quick action was required. MHCT purchased and held the land until the State of Vermont could complete all the legal steps necessary to buy the land. The tract was sold by MHCT to the State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Fish and Wildlife on December 23, 2024. MHCT's ability to act quickly to take the land off the market in order to expand the new Awasos Wildlife Management Area, a 440-acre parcel conserved by MHCT in 2023, was critical to protecting the otherwise vulnerable parcel. For more information about, or to support the MHCT efforts, see our web site at Mount Holly Conservation Trust.
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