Founded in 1960 the Carlisle Conservation Foundation (CCF) is a private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to receive, acquire and protect open land as well as to promote conservation in Carlisle. The Carlisle Land Trust was formed and is operated to benefit and carry out the purposes of CFF.
Carlisle Conservation Foundation owns more than 230 acres outright and holds conservation restrictions on additional acres. The Carlisle Land Trust has been the active land acquisition agency of the two organizations while CCF has carried out the day to day work of land conservation, preservation, and education. Both organizations wish to preserve the natural beauties and and rural character of the town of Carlisle: to provide suitable open places of recreation and conservation of land, forestry and wildlife; to promote responsible development of real estate and sound conservation practices in the town of Carlisle so as to preserve and enhance its natural beauties, and to carry out research in the public interest in the area of land use and land use planning.
With the good work of The Trustees of Reservations (TTOR) a handicapped accessible trail is being built on our recently acquired Malcolm Land, eleven acres of which we will co-own with TTOR. In the fall we will in a trail connecting the top of the Malcolm Land on Stearns Street to Two Rod Road, the historic way running through Estabrook Woods from Carlisle to Concord. A soon to be acquired piece of conservation land will have another trail connecting the end of Baldwin Road to Two Rod Road, another important link made possible by the owner's generosity and the sweat equity of volunteers who cleared the trail.
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