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What is the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation and How Does it Work?
The Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation (the WRLF) is a private, non-profit land conservation trust founded in 1986 to address the loss of open space and public access, the disappearance of family farms in the Williamstown area and to encourage responsible development. The WRLF works with private landowners on land protection projects using a variety of methods including Conservation Restriction, direct gift, and sale of partial or full interests in land to state agencies. The WRLF also works with the community by assisting in development planning and affordable housing projects.

Educational Programs
The WRLF provides hands-on environmental education for children and adults as well as year-round natural and cultural history programs for schools and visitors at Sheep Hill. Members and visitors are welcome to join us freely in special seasonal activities such as firefly and lantern-lit solstice hikes, celebrating the wooly ways of sheep, getting a close-up view of a meteor shower, making a working birdfeeder or kaleidoscope. The WRLF also regularly collaborates with area organizations such as Hoosic River Watershed Association, Northern Berkshire Creative Arts, Williamstown Elementary School, Inkberry, and the Milne Public Library.

Membership & Volunteering
Supporting the WRLF through your membership is an excellent way to sustain and shape the high quality of life we enjoy in Williamstown. By joining the WRLF you not only help to preserve our natural resources and scenic beauty, you also make it possible for the community to take advantage of the WRLF’s conservation services, area trails and the fun, cultural and educational programs and activities at Sheep Hill. The WRLF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and all donations are tax deductible. Monetary gifts, appreciated securities, planned giving bequests, in-kind donations, and donations of equipment and materials are some of the ways to support the WRLF. The WRLF also welcomes volunteers to guide hikes, maintain trails, help out in the office, garden, write for our newsletter, serve on committees and represent the WRLF at community events.