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A Norcross Wildlife Foundation: A Mission to Conserve Habitat for Animals & Plants
by Dan Donahue, Director of Land Protection & Stewardship The Norcross Wildlife Foundation was established in 1965 by Arthur D. Norcross, a native of Monson, Massachusetts and founder of the Norcross Greeting Card Company. From boyhood, Norcross demonstrated an avid ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Some Hope for Your ATV Problems
- 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 ...
Atlantic White-Cedar
By Dave Schroeder Atlantic white-cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), also called white-cedar or swamp cedar, is usually found growing in fairly dense stands in swamps, bogs and, occasionally along streams. Its range is along the Atlantic coast in a belt, 50 to ...
Starting the Land Protection Process: A Few Baby Steps for Forest (and Farm) Owners
- by Steve Broderick As Connecticut’s Extension Forester, it’s been my privilege to meet many hundreds of forest landowners. Over time, many of them have come to love their land, and would love to know it will remain undeveloped after ...