The ECFLA & WDLT Mission
The misson of the Eastern Connecticut Forest Landowners Association (ECFLA) & the Wolf Den Land Trust (WDLT) is to:
- Promote wise management of forest lands
- Provide information to help members make informed decisions
- Offer professional forestry assistance to the small forest landowner
- Make forest ownership more attractive as an investment
- Improve communications among landowners, foresters, mill owners, timber harvesters
- Protect open space and professionally manage demonstration forests through the Wolf Den Land Trust.
- Learn more….
MEMBER RESOURCES
Benefits of membership include:
- E-News – Subscribe now for updates on programs, problems in our area, etc.
- Quarterly newsletters filled with practical, informative articles
- Educational meetings and programs
- An annual Forestry Fair
- Equipment to loan: a planting bar and planting shovel for members planting large quantities of forest seedling stock
- Support from natural resource professionals to teach our members about land stewardship
CONSERVING LAND
What the WDLT does and how we help:
- We hold title or conservation easements to woodlands in order to protect them as forest lands and to serve as demonstration woodlands.
- We manage 17 properties totaling more than 882 acres in northeastern Connecticut.
- Many of our managed properties have a trail system and are open to the public for passive recreation.
- Check out the list of properties and view maps
- Contact us today if you are interested in conserving YOUR land!
MOST RECENT POSTS
Connecticut is Getting More Rainfall – Good or Bad News for our Forests?
- by Dennis Hodgin A recent effort by UConn scientists to update Connecticut’s rainfall statistics has revealed that the state has been getting significantly wetter! I am not a plant scientist and my first reaction was that this can only be good news for our ...
Acid Deposition in CT
- 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 woodlands. The last time I ...
Forestry and Logging in Connecticut: What Every Landowner Should Know – Part II
(Part II) - By Doug Emmerthal, Supervisor of Forest Practices Act Program (Note from the Editor: This article is the second part of an article submitted by Jasmine Wolf. The first part was published in the Sept. 03 issue of this newsletter. The following article ...
American Basswood
- by Dave Schroeder The American basswood (Tilia americana), sometimes called the American linden is an uncommon tree in Eastern Connecticut’s forests. It is nitrogen demanding and prefers calcareous soils and moist sites. Basswood is relatively easy to identify during the summer because of its ...
Wolf Den Land Trust Receives Its First Conservation Easement
On August 22 the Koch family hosted a ceremony, on their property in Canterbury , dedicating the first ever, conservation easement to the Wolf Den Land Trust. Thanks to the Koch family, fifty acres of lovely forestland, bordered on one side by the Little River, ...
Robert V. Smith Memorial
- By Jeff Perkins, ECFLA President I thought my task would be fairly easy to write an article about the death of Bob Smith: just put down all the great things he did for ECFLA/WDLT, write about what an interesting guy he was, and say ...