Posts by Dorene Warner
Explore from the Comfort of Home
The Lyme Land Trust launched their first full-length educational video: An Exploration of Forest Plants on the Ravine Trail with naturalist Mike Zarfos, a Naturalist and PhD Candidate in Conservation Biology at the…
Read MoreAn Invitation to Dialogue
What can a pandemic teach us? I suppose it is teaching us what we should learn every day. The pandemic has magnified the many ills that is the underbelly of daily living. Inequality and…
Read MoreImproving Communications for a Digital World
Northeast Land Trust Regional Advancement Initiative Eastern CT Forest Landowners Association/Wolf Den Land Trust The New Roxbury Land Trust Joshua’s Trust Northern Connecticut Land Trust Four land trusts participating in…
Read MoreRoxbury Land Trust Website Refresh
Roxbury Land Trust recently refreshed their website and added great features including a new video with drone footage, updated photography, and a mobile friendly interface, so now people have access to trail maps on their…
Read MoreHudson to Housatonic (H2H) Regional Conservation Partnership
The Hudson to Housatonic (H2H) Regional Conservation Partnership is bringing their watershed-based conservation approach to life with a new StoryMap detailing conservation priorities in the region in relation to the New England and Mid-Atlantic…
Read MoreMorris Land Trust Website
Recently, Morris Land Trust launched their brand new website providing an easy point of access for people to learn more about their organization, discover their conservation mission and conserved lands and find out how to…
Read MoreConnecting with Community and Communicating with Resilience
Despite all that has happened in our world over the last six months, our Connecticut land trusts have continued forging ahead. At the onset of the pandemic, we heard from…
Read MoreJohnson Farm
Thanks to a partnership between Steep Rock Association (SRA) and the Connecticut Farmland Trust, funded in part by a CT DEEP Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition Grant, the Johnson Farm in Washington has been permanently…
Read MoreBeacon Hill Preserve
Wintonbury Land Trust acquired a hardwood forest adjacent to the Wintonbury Hills golf course. Originally intended for a residential subdivision, the property includes a pinnacle 140 feet above the town…
Read MoreCristina Hayden on Who Owns the Land
At its peak after the Civil War, Black people owned upwards of 15 million acres of land, mostly located in the South. Groups of formerly enslaved people had the opportunity to…
Read MoreAlternatives to Chain Saws
In light of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Isaias, we thought a discussion of how Groton Open Space Association (GOSA) handles tree damage would be timely. Chainsaws are powerful tools,…
Read MoreChallenge Accepted!
This summer, the Canton Land Conservation Trust is encouraging people of all ages to get outside and hike local with their Canton Land Trust Challenge. Challengers will take on 23 miles of trails…
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