Land Stewardship
- Constructed improved parking areas at Ingalls and Staalesen Preserves.
- Partnered with Capital District Community Gardens and granted them garden plot at Staalesen Preserve.
- Received $17,000 Environmental Protection Fund Grant through Land Trust Alliance to fund boundary survey, signs, kiosk, and property maintenance at Staalesen Preserve in Troy.
Watershed Protection Programs
- 5th Annual Shoreline clean-up of the Tomhannock Reservoir, which provides clean drinking water to 125,000 people. More than 60 volunteers including high school and college students participated.
- Tree planting at Rensselaer Land Trust Hoosic River property with the assistances of Biology Club at Tamarac High School and other volunteers.
Watershed Education Programs
- "What's in Our Creek?" Community Day at our new Staalesen Preserve in Troy. Troy Record Coverage
- Received $5,000 Blue Water Project grant from Royal Bank of Canada to fund interactive watershed map for the Rensselaer Land Trust website.
Outings and Natural History Programs
- Annual 8 mile Hoosick River Paddle led by Paul Schroeder.
- Mushroom Workshops and Walks with a total of 115 participants.
- Spring Wildflower Walk led by led by Tom Phillips.
- Wetland Ecology Hike co-led by Rensselaer Land Trust President Nick Conrad and Ecologist David Hunt.
- Winter Hike and potluck gathering.
- Tibbitts State Forest Hike.
- Rensselaer Plateau Traverse, a 30-mile two-day hike from Stephentown to Hoosick through numerous public and private properties.
- Taconic Crest Hike up Greene Hollow, over Berlin Mountain, and down Southeast Hollow.
- Snow Hole Hike.
- Hydroelectric Power Plant Tour and Lecture on History of Hydro Power.
Outreach Events
- Grafton Lakes State Park Winterfest.
- Sand Lake Bicentennial.
- Taborton Zion Church Earth Day Event.
- Rensselaer Land Trust President Nick Conrad interviewed by the Times Union's environmental reporter Brian Nearing on WVCR (88.3 FM). Radio Interview Recording
- Rensselaer Land TrustExecutive Director Christine Young interviewed by the Troy Record. Troy Record Interview
- 5th Annual Oktoberfest at Brown's Brewing Co.
- 3rd Annual Troy Victorian Stroll Concert by fiddler George Wilson and RLT Open House.
Sustaining Organizational Financial Security for the future
- Established Charitable Remainder Trust.
- Established Endowment Fund.
- Received $20,000 Environmental Protection Fund grant through Land Trust Alliance to prepare for renewal of Rensselaer Land Trust's national Land Trust Accreditation.