What's Happening Around LP&CT?  Be sure to check out our Calendar of Events!  Upcoming and seasonal events include an Eco Film Series, Concord River Whitewater Rafting and flatwater kayaking, Spalding House and Greenway tours, and our Summer Solstice Soirée!

Arbor Day 2013: We celebrated Arbor Day with a tree planting at Lowell High School’s Freshman Academy Compass Program.  Students in our afterschool program, run in partnership with Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, replaced a damaged tree with a red maple, read a proclamation, and ate a “tree” cake! City officials, including the deputy tree warden attended, along with parents and teachers.  Lowell is once again a Tree City USA!

Rafting season runs weekends at 9:00am & 1:00pm, from April 6 through May 2013!  Lock Tenders needed.  Watch this video to see what Concord River Whitewater Rafting is like.

Order a Special Places print by Dr. Mark Romanowsky, a set of notecards, or a Concord River Greenway hat!" 

Green Fire Film Screening

Thank you for your support of LP&CT’s Annual Meeting featuring Green Fire, an Aldo Leopold documentary that portrays how Leopold’s vision of a community that cares about both people and land – his call for a land ethic – ties modern conservation stories together and offers inspiration and insight for the future.

Co-hosted by the Lowell Film Collaborative.

If your employer (or parent company) is listed in this brochure (SEE ATTACHED BROCHURE), your gift to the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust could be at least doubled.  Please take a moment to get a matching gift form from your personnel office and follow the directions to initiate a match.   Thank you for making the extra effort - and for your double support!

LP&CT was just accepted into the 1% for the Planet program, thanks to a gift from Patagonia!  When you see the 1% for the Planet logo, please think of the Trust.

Welcome to the Trust's "As Scene In Lowell" page where you, the members and friends of the Trust, have the opportunity to share your favorite images of local wildlife scenes.  The natural resources of Lowell, Massachusetts, such as parks, rivers, canals, brooks, and forests provide various habitats for a multitude of wildlife species.  The images and descriptions here are categorized by neighborhoods.  (Image to the left is a red fox at Lowell Cemetery, September 2011, by LP&CT's Gwen Kozlowski.)

Stewardship Through Leadership: Backyard Adventures! after-school environmental education programs for youth of the city of Lowell.  LP&CT and the youth of Lowell, including our students from Robinson Middle School and LHS's Freshman Academy, are making at difference to the people of Lowell and their highly valued natural resources.  Read More

There’s a new way for you to donate to the Trust! Simply click the link to the left and follow the instructions. 

Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)