SHEFFIELD IS UNIQUE

What Makes Sheffield Special?

Conservation efforts in Sheffield Land Trust are important for many reasons, a few are highlighted below:

• Sheffield contains the Schenob Brook Drainage Basin which has been identified by the state as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern for the many rare and endangered plant and animal species supported by the calcareous wetlands and the limestone bedrock of the surrounding uplands;
   

• Sheffield contains the largest concentration of working farms remaining in Berkshire County;
   

• The Housatonic River is getting cleaned up and we want to keep that progress as the river’s flood- plain is the main riparian, transportation, agricultural and commercial corridor of Sheffield.

One of the Last Great Places: 

Not only is Sheffield important agriculturally, but ecologically it is at the heart of an area that The Nature Conservancy has identified as one of the world's Last Great Places. The three-state Berkshire Taconic Landscape is globally significant for the conservation of our natural heritage. It contains one of the largest extant contiguous forests in the Northeast and an unusually high concentration of rare species and natural communities.