Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, incorporated in 1986, is a non-profit organization whose mission is the conservation of woodland and agricultural land in north central and western Massachusetts. Based out of Athol, Massachusetts, the MGLCT is named after Mount Grace, a neaby monadnock. As of December 2007, the trust had protected over "21,000 acres through the completion of over 200 projects."
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.”
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