The Geiser Preserve is beautiful woodland of 95 acres, high on the Rensselaer Plateau. The access route follows a level dirt road (Lindeman Road) through attractive woods. The preserve has only one trail, a short section of the old Eastern Turnpike of 1802. Elevations here range from 1600 to 1900 feet.

The forest consists of sugar maple, American beech, and eastern hemlock. The understory is full of witch hobble, striped maple, and an incredible carpet of ferns. Fern gathering for florists was one of the sources of income for Plateau residents years ago. There are small wetlands and rocky knolls within the preserve. There are a number of seasonal flowers. Jack-in-the-pulpit and many violets are found in the spring, and asters, white snakeroot, and goldenrods in the late summer and fall. Ferns include royal, interrupted, lady, wood, marginal shield, Christmas, maidenhair, hay-scented, bracken, and grape.

The property is located on the north side of NY Route 67 just south of the town of Eagle Bridge along the Hoosic River and comprises 32.7 acres with 3117 linear feet of river frontage.  Currently it is not open to the public and is farmed by one of the local farmers that sold the property to RLT.  RLT is currently working together with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to develop a public parking facility, canoe boat launch and public fishing access on a small portion of the land and we hope that this will be completed sometime in 2010.  Our Hoosic River property will be a wonderful trout fishing and boating destination!  Be sure to check back in 2010 on this website to see when the public fishing and access project is finished.

The Kirchner property is a parcel of ca. 50 acres located in the Town of Poestenkill, immediately west of Camp Rotary Scout Reservation. It is located on the western escarpment of the Rensselaer Plateau and is covered by Appalachian oak-hickory forest and chestnut oak forest. There a number of exposed rock ledges, where lichens are prevalent and offering some scenic overlooks. Access involves crossing private property of adjoining neighbors on either the west or east, and prior notification of the landowner must be obtained through the RLT.

Last year Alice LeBlanc of Manhattan donated a conservation easement on 76 acres of land that she owns on Calvin Cole Rd in Stephentown.  It is to be kept natural except for two house lots that will be located close to the road. It consists of two open meadows, approximately one half mile of wetland that borders Randall Brook which flows into the Kinderhook. The land rises from brook up to Calvin Cole Rd and is forested with hardwoods and hemlocks.   It has a beaver pond and all the wildlife typical of remote rural areas in Rensselaer County. There are several old roads on it that are now footpaths and a 200 yr old cemetery with at least one Revolutionary War veteran buried there. The cemetery was overgrown with brush and trees until this past fall at which time Alice, volunteers, and members of the Stephentown Historical Society cleared it.  The property is not open to the public and is only accessible during an RLT outing approved by the owner."

Mud Lake is a 38 acre property located in the southwest part of the Town of Sand Lake. The predominant feature of Mud Lake is its well preserved inland poor fen (a "kettlehole bog,") located at the center of the property, surrounded by a floating sphagnum mat, where on finds Cranberries (Vaccinum species) and the fascinating Pitcher-plant, Sarracenia purpurea. The narrow zone of the bog mat grades into a border area of open-canopy Black spruce (Picea mariana) and Larch or "Tamarack" (Larix laricina) bog forest, which grades into a hemlock-northern hardwood forest. At the north end of the swamp is a red maple-hardwood swamp, dominated by red maple (Acer rubrum var. rubrum.)