Conservation

Heaven Hill Farm and Uihlein Farm are one of the largest tracts of open grassland habitat in the heavily forested High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Mountains, offering incredible big-sky views along with valuable and rare opportunities for wildlife habitat enhancement, ecological research, and education.

Headwater watersheds draining Heaven Hill and other large forest blocks on the foundation lands are ecologically important to the health of the West Branch of the Ausable River, a New York State Recreational River, and offer unusual opportunities for long-term water quality and ecological monitoring, research, and education.  Large forestland blocks on the foundation lands provide habitat opportunities favoring diverse native species and are critical to the significant, large-scale, continuous, unfragmented forest habitat of the Adirondack Region―increasingly rare in the temperate forest biome.