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Annie Jacobs, January 1, 2024 As of January 1, 2024, the merger between the Rensselaer Plateau Alliance and Rensselaer Land Trust is...

Annie Jacobs, October 27, 2023 Bunker Hill summit, by Nate Simms As a young girl living in New Jersey, Betsy Boehme Howe had severe...

Elizabeth Hayes August 4, 2023 Roland and Bessie LeBarron loved each other, and their home up on Taborton Mountain. Roland relished the...

Annie Jacobs March 12, 2023 As you drive past the new Barberville Falls Preserve parking area on Blue Factory Road in Postenkill, with...

Annie Jacobs April 18, 2022 photo by Kim Clune A wonderful aspect of this past fall and winter at RPA was hosting two Master of Social...

February 17, 2022 Annie Jacobs A family ethic After Donna and Bob Simms had their first child, Matthew, they started searching for a...

January 24, 2022 Annie Jacobs At the Forests Forever Gala in September, 2021, RPA’s Executive Director, Jim Bonesteel, told the story of...

June 10 Annie Jacobs For Jeff Briggs, retired ecologist and Poestenkill Community Forest’s volunteer steward, the community forest’s...

March 23, 2021 by Annie Jacobs published by Upstate Alliance for the Creative Economy

February 2, 2021 Annie Jacobs For decades, Tom Hohman lived next to one of Rensselaer County’s most stunning and dramatic waterfalls,...