You Make Great Conservation Possible!
Thank you
members, volunteers, partners, and friends for protecting Northwest Connecticut's special places. Your membership helps to ensure that future generations will enjoy
wild lands for exploration and relaxation,
clean air and water, and locally-grown foods. Conservation starts at home and starts with you. Thank you for making great conservation possible.
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Coming this summer: Interns!
Working in partnership, the participating land trusts will help train and mentor the summer interns. The interns will provide stewardship services to each land trust on a rotating basis, including:
- Trail building, maintenance, and property boundary marking;
- Habitat restoration projects in field, forest, and wetland habitats;
- Invasive species removal; and
- Property inspections.
This grant would not have been possible without the generous support of CCF and the enthusiastic partnership from the Bethlehem, Litchfield, and Warren Land Trusts. Thanks to this partnership, we look forward to helping train the next generation of land stewards!
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New Year, New Hikes!
One of the joys of working for a land trust are the quarterly staff hikes. This January, Weantinoge's staff visited our friends at the Great Hollow Preserve & Ecological Research Center in Sherman for a hike on its 825 acre preserve. Great Hollow is a non-profit organization dedicated to land and wildlife conservation, applied ecological research, experiential environmental education, and outdoor recreational opportunities. Its hiking trails are open to the public and if you're interested in learning more or planning a visit, we encourage you to
click here.
Some of our staff's best hiking trips have been during the winter. Don't forget to check out Weantinoge's 12 hiking preserves that are open to the public year round.
Click here
for maps and trail information and don't hesitate to call our office with your questions. We are happy to help and give recommendations for the best places to visit in the snow.
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We hope you can join us at one of our upcoming events.
All events are free and open to the public.
If you have any questions please contact:
[email protected].
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The Mountain Lion Returns to the East
Date:
Friday, February 22
Time:
7 PM
Location:
Housatonic Valley Regional High School, main auditorium
Address:
246 Warren Tpke, Falls Village, CT 06031
A magnificently illustrated presentation by wildlife researcher and photographer Sue Morse, founder of
Keeping Track.
Mountain lions are not only being seen in eastern North America, some are attempting to recolonize their former habitats. Scientists have now documented mountain lions in a growing list of eastern states and provinces.
Join us for an engaging introduction to the biology and ecology of mountain lions. Sue will also share the latest confirmations of mountain lions in the east, including the recently documented suitability of a substantial amount of wild habitats from Manitoba to Louisiana and Maine to Georgia.
This event is brought to you in partnership with Berkshire-Taconic Regional Conservation Partnership, Dutchess County Land Trust, Goshen Land Trust, Greenprint, Housatonic Valley Association, Norfolk Land Trust, Sharon Audubon, Sharon Land Trust, and Salisbury Association.
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In the News:
Local Bag Bans Prompt Changes for New England Grocery Chain
The New England supermarket chain, Big Y, has announced that it will
phase out single-use plastic bags at all of its locations by 2020
. The local bag bans in six Massachusetts towns inspired the grocery store to reconsider providing single-use plastic bags across its 70 stores. This news is an encouraging reminder that local action can prompt change at a regional level.
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