- by Bet Zimmerman and Jim Reck, Woodstock Conservation Commission Drive along East Quasset Road in Woodstock CT, or canoe the Quinebaug, and you will see a woody vine smothering and strangling many tall trees. It is probably Asiatic ...
- by Dennis Hodgin Most ECFLA/WDLT members have known first hand about the “ATV Problem” on private and public land for years but now it is official. Of course it only took 5 years for our public officials to acknowledge ...
- By Donald H. Smith, Connecticut State Forester Since 1995, large numbers of oaks and tanoaks have been dying in the coastal counties of California. Since then, many Oaks. Photo by S Leavitt other types of plants have been found ...
- by Dennis Hodgin DEP Enforcement handles all All Terrain Vehicle (ATV)/Trail Bike problems in Connecticut – regardless of whether on town or State roads, State Forest, or private land (unless they have & carry written landowner permission). Here is ...
- by Dennis Hodgin Author’s note: I have learned a few things related to gates over the years and plan to share some of the better ideas with you in a series of short articles. The following is the first ...
- by Charlotte Pyle, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service You probably have observed that in recent years there have been some new twists to the textbook model of plant succession. In the textbook model of old field succession, abandoned farm ...
- by Carole Cheah, Ph.D. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, c/o USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, 51 Mill Pond Rd, Hamden, CT 06514 Heavy infestation. Fig.1. Heavy infestation Fig.4. Close up of HWA nymph Fig.5. Hatching HWA crawlers Fig. 6. ...
- by Susan Leavitt At a recent meeting of the Society of American Foresters, I attended a session presented by Christopher Eagar from the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation in NH on acid deposition and its effects on the New England ...
- By Dennis Hodgin Based on my own experience and conversations with other landowners in Connecticut, the “ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) Problem” is becoming a major issue. ATV’s can be operated legally in Connecticut only on private land and then ...
- Excerpted from April 2002, CT Council on Environmental Quality The second biggest threat to Connecticut 's natural habitats is invasion by alien plants and animals (behind loss of habitat to sprawling land development.) With few natural enemies, these species ...