Interested in green practices? Want to learn more about land conservation and protecting our natural resources? Then stop by the Waltham Public Library to check out the Waltham Land Trust’s conservation book display. Waiting for your perusal is a wide range of topics including a history of New England forests, endangered animals, solutions to global warming, a bio of Rachel Carson, and a video by Al Gore. You’ll discover how to make your workplace greener – and your children, too! The display is at the Main Street entrance, directly across from the circulation desk.

Featured in the display is material on The Waltham Land Trust itself, Waltham’s own local group dedicated to preserving open space. This year the WLT celebrates 10 years of working to benefit the environment. You can read about Trust’s activities, from monitoring land development threats to evaluating potential preservation opportunities and advocating for land preservation in general. Over these past ten years the WLT has identified and prioritized the top ten remaining open spaces in Waltham. Of the ten parcels, the Trust has successfully advocated for the City to acquire five, resulting in nearly 98.7 acres of new conservation land.

Special thanks are due to Marcia Luce of the Waltham Public Library for selecting the books and designing the display, Waltham Public Library, Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition and the Cabot Wellington Foundation for donating a copy of Charles HW Foster’s “Twentieth Century New England Land Conservation; a Heritage of Civic Engagement” to the library to encourage public interest in land protection efforts.