NCT is a small, excellent land trust founded in 1969. In 35 years it has protected almost 400 acres. It has one part-time staff, and 200 members. Now it has a huge opportunity: the Pepperell Springs Preservation Project, to protect a 265-acre, $3.2 million, top-priority conservation property, working with the Trust for Public Land, the Nashua River Watershed Association, the Nissitissit River Land Trust, and the Town of Pepperell. This is the largest singly owned, unprotected forest parcel of highest conservation priority within the Nashua River watershed. It is bisected by Gulf Brook, a tributary of the Nissitissit River, which is a top-quality riverine habitat. In 1893 the Pepperell Spring Water Company bottled and sold the water; in 1904 they won a silver medal as “best-tasting mineral water” at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis; and at the 1939 World’s Fair they won First Prize! Any questions about the water? But wait—there's more! This land has both plants and animals of conservation concern, and abuts a 3,000-acre protected north-south wildlife corridor. Government and private sources have already raised $1.5 million, so NCT and its partners are reaching out. How many opportunities do you get to accomplish something pure, permanent, excellent, and unique?