June 20
Branford Festival
Join us at the Land Trust booth to help set up (7:15 AM), break down (3:30 PM), or for an hour or two during the day to tell friends and neighbors about how you're helping the Land Trust protect Branford's open space for future generations.

Nature Explorer Program: Sundials
11:30 a.m. Sundials constructed to celebrate the Solstice, when the sun's at its highest for the year. At Hammer Field. Meet at the Community Center basketball courts on your way to or from the Branford Festival. "Cloudy" date June 21. Anyone who participates in any 5 events will receive a free baseball cap with the Branford Land Trust insignia, or a copy of the newly published BLT trails guide, The Walks of Branford. Click here for more information.

June 21
Story And A Hike Series: Tidal Explorers
Long Wharf Nature Preserve
Join Justin Pegnataro and the New Haven Land Trust on a family adventure! Explore the shore of the LWNP, listen to a story about a mischievous crab and explore the beach for ocean treasures. Don't forget to bring a bucket to hold your treasures. SUNDAY, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Sponsored by the New Haven Land Trust and Two Coyotes Wilderness School. $10 per person or $20 per family. Advance Registration necessary-attendance limit. Contact: Barbara@newhavenlandtrust.org, 203-562-6655.

June 29
Land Tract Stewards Lecture-Discussion: "Understory Stand Dynamics"
7:30 p.m. at the Blackstone Memorial Library

Thomas Worthley, Stewardship Program Forester, University of Connecticut. Mr. Worthley will give us a better understanding of how forests interact by describing the area of growth in the shade of an emergent forest canopy, illustrating the competition between tree seedlings and saplings of canopy trees with the shrubs and herbs of the understory.

July 18
Work Party – Goss
We will be clearing trails and removing invasive plants. Meet at 9:00 a.m. at the Goss trailhead on the Tilcon access road at 190 Totoket Rd. (Park in the parking lot at the Pine Orchard end of the trolley trail.) Bring loppers, small hand saws, sturdy hand clippers, and work gloves. All work parties begin at 9:00 a.m.. Contact Bill Horne (billhorne48@yahoo.com, 488-6146) for more information, unless otherwise indicated. Please feel free to pass this information along to friends who you think might be interested in joining a work party. E-mail Bill if you would like to be put on the list for reminders.

August 15
Work Party - Pinchot/Medlyn Preserve
We will be removing invasive plants. Meet at 9:00 a.m. at the pull-off across from 742 Leetes Island Rd. Bring loppers, small hand saws, sturdy hand clippers, and work gloves. All work parties begin at 9:00 a.m.. Contact Bill Horne (billhorne48@yahoo.com, 488-6146) for more information, unless otherwise indicated. Please feel free to pass this information along to friends who you think might be interested in joining a work party. E-mail Bill if you would like to be put on the list for reminders.

September 19
Work Party - Lower Sybil Creek Preserve
We will be working on the Sybil Creek property next to Bruce & Johnson’s Marina, cutting bittersweet and other climbing plants that are strangling the trees on this important upland part of the Sybil Creek Preserve. Meet at 9:00 a.m. at the parking lot of Bruce & Johnson’s Marina at the end of Block Island Road. Bring loppers, small hand saws, sturdy hand clippers, and work gloves. Footwear that can get a little wet or muddy will let you walk along the edge of the marsh if you want. Call Lynn Perone (488-2654) for more information.

November 22
Nature Explorer Program: BLT's Annual Pre-Thanksgiving Walk
1 p.m. at the Van Wie Preserve. Meet at the trailhead at 87 Red Hill Rd. Anyone who participates in any 5 events will receive a free baseball cap with the Branford Land Trust insignia, or a copy of the newly published BLT trails guide, The Walks of Branford. Click here for more information.

For additional local events, see:
Guilford Land Trust
Menunkatuck Audubon Society
New Haven Bird Club
 

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