Profiles in Conservation

History Project

January 31, 2025

On a winding road in Pine Plains, leading up to a sweeping view of Stissing Mountain, a couple has steadfastly worked to return a sense of history to their house not on a hill.

On Solid Ground

February 4, 2021

In a year without parties, Georgina Schaeffer visits with one of the driving forces of the Dutchess Land Conservancy’s events to find that the show will most definitely go on.

When Eric Roberts began to look for a second home outside of New York City in the early 1990s, he quickly homed in on Millbrook and its surrounding towns in no small part because of the work of the Dutchess Land Conservancy. “[I chose this area] because of the open spaces and the protections already in place to keep the area rural. This was the work of the DLC. I became a supporter and an advocate for their work and mission from those early days until the present.”