Connecticut Woodlands-Spring 2007

WoodlandsC O N N E C T I C U T

The Magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association Spring 2007 Volume 72 Number 1

CONSERVATION PHILANTHROPISTS, GREAT AND SMALL

The Connecticut Forest & Park Association, Inc.

OfficersPRESIDENT, RichardWhitehouse,Glastonbury

VICE-PRESIDENTAND TREASURER,Gordon L. Anderson,Glastonbury

VICE-PRESIDENT, Eric Lukingbeal,GranbyVICE-PRESIDENT, David Platt,Higganum

SECRETARY-FORESTER, Adam R.Moore,Durham

DirectorsMark Ashton,New Haven

Richard A. Bauerfeld, BranfordRussell L. Brenneman,WestportGeorgeM. Camp,MiddletownStarlingW. Childs,NorfolkRuth Cutler, Ashford

Laurence Diamond, CoventryCaroline Driscoll, New LondonAstrid T. Hanzalek, SuffieldJean Crum Jones, SheltonDavid Leff, CollinsvilleJamesW. Little,Hebron

Geoffrey Meissner, SouthingtonKarenMignone,Westport

ThomasMongillo,North BranfordRandall Miller,HamdenBrian O’Connor,WestbrookStephen C. Parsons, CheshireDonald L. Snook,WestportDavid Sullivan,HaddamColin Tait,Norfolk

Sally L. Taylor,Quaker Hill

Honorary DirectorsHarrolW. Baker, Jr., BoltonRichard F. Blake,Milford

Clyde S. Brooks,GlastonburyAnnM. Cuddy, Lakeville

Samuel G. Dodd,Mansfield CenterMrs. Reynolds Girdler, StamfordJohn E. Hibbard,HebronPhilip H. Jones, Jr., SheltonGeorgeM.Milne,Hebron

Edward A. Richardson,GlastonburyDavidM. Smith,HamdenL.P. Sperry, Jr.,Middlebury

Henry H. Townshend,New Haven

StaffExecutive Director, Adam R.Moore,Durham

Trail Conservation Coordinator, Ann T. Colson, ClintonDevelopment Coordinator, Starr Sayres, East HaddamAdministrative Coordinator, Teresa Peters,Durham

Land Conservation Coordinator, Katherine D.Winslow,MiddletownEducation Coordinator, Lori Paradis Brant, Beacon FallsAdministrative Assistant, Linda Cunningham, Portland

EDITOR, ChristineWoodsideGRAPHIC DESIGNER, KarenWard

Conserving ConnecticutThe Connecticut Forest & Park Association is aprivate, non-profit organization dedicated since1895 to conserving the land, trails, and naturalresources of Connecticut.The Connecticut Forest & Park Association isaffiliated with the National Wildlife Federation,the National Woodland Owners Association,the American Hiking Society, and Earth Share.

Connecticut WoodlandsPublished quarterly by theConnecticut Forest & Park Association,Middlefield, 16 Meriden Road, Rockfall, CT06481-2961.Indexed in the Connecticut Periodical Index,ISSN 00106257.Telephone: 860-346-2372.Fax 860-347-7463.E-mail address: [email protected] Wide Web site:http://www.ctwoodlands.org

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The Magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association

Christine Woodside

In 1943, the Connecticut Forest & Park Association initiated the campaign to acquireGillette Castle State Park, above. See page 7 for more about conservation philanthropythrough the years.

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The Magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association Spring 2007 Volume 72 Number 1

FEATURES

Land: More Valuable than Money. Goingback to the turn of the 20th century, phi-lanthropists established most ofConnecticut’s state forests, parks, andnature preserves.

State Lands Roundup. An accounting ofthe major state parks and forests boughtby philanthropists and donated to thestate of Connecticut since the 1940s.

From the Land. The disappearing cows ofConnecticut: Most of us are not aware ofwhere the cows that provide our dairyproducts really live. By Jean Crum Jones.

DEPARTMENYTS

Executive Director’s Message. Give some-thing that you yourself aren’t capable ofenjoying. By Adam R. Moore.

President’s Message. How getting involvedhelps the land. By Richard Whitehouse.

Trail Mix. Spring workshop teaches mainte-nance techniques. Proposed all-terrainvehicle legislation. Mattabesett Trailreopens on Lamentation Mountain.

Try This Hike. The beauty of the Mad Riveron the Mattatuck.

Tree Page. The American dogwood.

From the Archives. Early CFPA leaders pre-dict a future with more leisure time.

Essential Facts of Life. Far from tree hug-ging: A movement to set standards in envi-ronmental education. By Lori ParadisBrant.

Obituaries.

Programs. Learn how to avoid invasiveplants in the garden.

News of the Connecticut Forest & ParkAssociation. Two-man play staged onGifford Pinchot and John Muir.Association buys 13 acres along NipmuckTrail.

Development News. Recognizing CFPAdonors.

CFPA Store. Buy books, maps, and clothing.

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Contents

On the cover:

In Peoples State Forest, hikers restat the Grand Vista on the JessieGerard Trail, named for theFederated Women's Club volun-teer who secured many donationsto buy the land.

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In the last issue of Woodlands, whichfocused on Eric Sloane’s world, several

articles raised an important question: Havewe lost touch with the land? We, as a society!

It brought home to me that CFPA, as anorganization, has worked since 1895 towardthe goal of connecting people to the land. Itis easy to get involved in individual projectsand day to day problems and miss the under-

lying goal that ties together all you are doingtogether — to fall prey to the “can’t-see-the-forest-for-the-trees” syndrome.

Let’s look back at CFPA’s long history. We,as an organization, and through our individ-ual members, played a major role in theestablishment of our state forests and parks.CFPA established the Blue-Blazed HikingTrails in 1929 to give state residents theopportunity to get out into nature and to

connect with the land.We have an educationprogram to insure thatour younger genera-tions learn about thenatural world. We haveworked to save andprotect our remainingopen spaces and farmswith an active land con-servation program andby working jointly with

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

GIVE SOMETHING YOU YOURSELFAREN’T CAPABLE OF ENJOYING

By ADAM R. MOORE

What is most amazing about the “Odeto Joy,” the famous, final, fourth

movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, isnot that it is the masterpiece that it is. It is notthat, if you listen to it, and gaze at clouds part-ing to reveal a shining, silver sun, you canbelieve that Gabriel himself is summoning youto heaven. It is not the soloists, or the beatingtympanic bass notes, or the “field and forest,vale and mountain, flow’ry meadow, flashingsea” of the familiar hymn to the same tune.What is most amazing about the NinthSymphony is that it was composed by a manwho was deaf.

Deaf. The great Ludwig van Beethovencould hear not a note of this triumph. Hiscreation was utterly selfless. The NinthSymphony, the “Ode to Joy,” is, therefore, agift. It is for others to enjoy, for others to findglory among its passages. The inspiration thatwe find in listening to this final Beethovensymphony is ours, given to us by a man whoknew what we would hear, but could not hearit himself.

Selflessness, too, is the attribute found inall of the greatest conservation work.

Conservation is itself a self-less notion. Conser-vationis the denial, to self and tosociety, of present needsand desires in favor offuture ones. Conservationcan be selfless whetherdone by individual philan-thropists, by charitableorganizations, or by gov-ernment. Alain White’sdonation of the MohawkState Forest and Mohawk

Mountain State Park to the State of Connecti-cut was selfless. Max Belding’s donation of theBelding Wildlife Management Area and anendowment to maintain it was selfless.

Selfless, too, was President Lincoln’s grantof Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove ofGiant Sequoias to the State of California forpreservation as a park. Our nation could havefound more lucrative uses for this landscapeand its treasure of tall timbers, but for Yosemite,Lincoln chose conservation. For Lincoln, thiswas a selfless act, as he would never even derivethe pleasure of casting his gaze upon the majes-tic granite wall of Half Dome or the toweringtrunk of a giant sequoia.

STAY CONNECTED TO THE LAND


Executive DirectorAdam R. Moore

Ann Colson

Let us apply challenge and selflessness to our conservation work

Yet there is something else to selfless actslike the composition of the Ninth Symphony.There is a challenge to them. Beethoven wasdeaf. Beethoven overcame obstacles. Is thereany motivating force more powerful thanbeing told you can’t? Tantalize magnanimousintent and greatness results.

Can’t be a self-governing democraticnation? Declare your independence and fightthe British to victory. Can’t hear? Composethe “Ode to Joy.” Out of reach? Walk on themoon. A hole in the ozone layer? Patch it.

Let us apply both challenge and selflessnessto our conservation work. What I want toknow is: what can’t you do? What you can’tdo is what I want you to do. Can’t walk?Create a magnificent hiking trail. Does it real-ly matter that you can’t, or won’t, walk on it?Does it matter that Benton MacKaye did notactually hike the Appalachian Trail? Allergicto cod? Restore the Atlantic cod fishery.Aren’t heading to Alaska? Protect the ArcticNational Wildlife Refuge. Won’t ever see amature American chestnut? Plant resistantnuts anywhere you can think of. Can’t solveglobal warming? Can’t?

What I want to know is: What will be yourNinth Symphony?

CFPA PresidentRichard Whitehouse

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CFPA Invites All to Annual TrailMaintenanceWorkshopLearn Bridge Building, Brushing, Blazing, and More

Join the Connecticut Forest & Park Association at its annualtrail maintainer spring workshop on Saturday, April 21 atMacedonia Brook State Park in Kent. The rain date is Sunday.

Learn the basics of trail design and maintenance of pedestri-an/hiking trails while working side-by-side with seasoned trailvolunteers. Projects will include bridge building, water bar con-struction, side-hilling, brushing, blazing, and safe tool usage.Construction of universal access trails and control of invasivespecies will be included this year. Everyone is welcome.

Meet at 8:30 a.m. at Macedonia Brook State Park. From thejunction of Route 7 and Route 341 in Kent, go west on Route341 about 1.7 miles. Turn right on Macedonia Brook Road andfollow it about 0.9 mile to park boundary where it becomes themain park road. The park office is on the west side of the parkroad, 2.0 miles from Route 341. Bring water, lunch, workgloves and dress appropriately for outdoor work. Tools will beprovided. The workshops usually end between 2 and 4 p.m.

To register or for further information, contact workshopleader George Arthur by calling 860-871-0137, or send him ane-mail at [email protected]. Or contact CFPA at860-346-2372, or by e-mail at [email protected].

All-Terrain Vehicle Bill Would DesignateThree Trails

Another bill on all-terrain vehicles, which damage hikingtrails they are not supposed to be using, was pending this springin the Connecticut General Assembly. CFPA supported the bill,HB7277, which called for registration of the vehicles, use ofhelmets, and the designation of three ATV trails – not in stateparks, state forests, or the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails.

Mattabesett Trail Reopened on LamentationMountain

A 2.5-mile section of the Mattabesett Trail on LamentationMountain, between the Meriden – Berlin town line and SpruceBrook Road in Berlin, closed in November 2005, has beenreopened. The reopened trail follows essentially the same route asbefore, with the following relocation. From mile 10.6(Connecticut Walk Book - East, page 18; Connecticut Walk Book -West, page 102) the trail description is:

Leave woods road following ridgeline. Bear right (10.8) from ridge,descend, and quickly cross woods road and continue descent.Reach small, wooded overlook (11.0) and begin short, steep descentslabbing a talus slope on switchback. Climb over low ridge, crosswoods road (11.2) and continue descent. Cross a swampy area onrocks (11.3). Reach old Stantack Road (11.4) and turn left followingroad. Bear right on paved road a short distance through housingdevelopment (11.8) then bear right off road at gas pipeline right-of-way. Reach Spruce Brook Road (12.4) (limited parking available).Turn left onto Spruce Brook Road (may be unblazed) and followwest to Berlin Turnpike (Routes 5/15) (13.1). (The Metacomet Trailbegins on the west side of Routes 5/15 at Orchard Road in Berlin.)

Senator Olver Introduces Bill to DesignateNational Scenic Trail in Connecticut andMassachusetts

In March, U.S. Rep. John Olver of Massachusetts introducedthe New England National Scenic Trail Designation Act to placethree trails in Connecticut and Massachusetts on a par with theAppalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. The 220-milesouth-to-north route combines the Mattabesett and Metacomettrails in Connecticut, and the Metacomet-Mondadnock Trail inMassachusetts. The southern end of the route would be LongIsland Sound in Guilford, Connecticut on a new section of trail,and the northern end would be at the New Hampshire border,in Royalston, Massachusetts.

The National Park Service last year named federal designa-tion, with a reroute in Massachusetts, as “the preferred alterna-tive” in its feasibility study.


TRAIL MIX: NEWS OFTHE BLUE-BLAZED HIKINGTRAILS

Christine WoodsideTrails Day ComingSaturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3 are National TrailsDay, and Connecticut offers many hikes. See www.ctwood-lands.org or call 860-346-2372 to get the Trails Day brochure

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Sen. Olver’s bill calls for the U.S.Secretary of the Interior to administer thetrails in cooperation with trail maintaininggroups, including the Connecticut Forest &Park Association and the AppalachianMountain Club. The federal governmentwill not aquire land through which the trailspass without the owners’ permission, the billsays. That approach differs from the govern-ment’s multi-year effort to acquire the landaround the Appalachian Trail, which goesfrom northern Georgia to central Maine.

CFPA organizes the volunteers whomanage more than 100 miles of thisroute, and would continue to do that.The bill says that there may be limitedfinancial assistance for planning, landacquisition, protection, and maintenance.

The bill also encourages the Secretary ofthe Interior to “work with the state of NewHampshire and appropriate local and privateorganizations” to include the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, which continues to thesummit of Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey,New Hampshire, as part of the NewEngland Scenic Trail.


many conservation organizations, landtrusts, towns, and people. CFPA has been atrusted friend of the ConnecticutDepartment of Environmental Protectionand a trusted presence at the state levelworking for conservation legislation and foradequate funding for parks, forests, andconservation programs.

As fine as our programs are, we as individ-uals are needed to make them a success.Those of us with gray hair, who grew up infarming communities, and who grew “vic-tory gardens,” hold that appreciation of theland. It is the younger generations that Ibelieve we must direct our efforts toward.How? Grow a garden, buy local produce inseason, buy Connecticut milk, visit a farmfor that Halloween pumpkin or to cut your

own Christmas tree, take your kids hiking,visit state parks, get involved in local conser-vation and land use issues, contact state andfederal officials. Support and participate inDEP’s ‘No Child Left Inside’ and CFPA’supcoming program, “WalkConnecticut.”Become involved at CFPA. Enjoy our beau-tiful state and if you are not an environmen-talist, you will soon be.

It does seem that many in today's socie-ty have lost that connection to the land.But I can say that CFPA – and its membersand friends – continue to hold the connec-tion that our founders did in 1895. I canassure you that, with your support, we willcontinue our programs with the goal ofconnecting all to the land.

Christine Woodside

Spring is trail work-party time. Above,CFPA President Richard Whitehousetrims brush near Case Mountain.

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President’sMessagecontinued from page 4

TRAIL MIX: ENVIRONMENTAL NOTES

Cockaponset State Forest TreeThinning Helps Oaks

As part of the effort to promote the develop-ment of future oak forests, state forester EmeryGluck and a seasonal worker have worked tothin trees that are overtopping oak seedlings andsaplings (primarily birch, beech and maplesaplings and poles) on approximately 45 acres ofrecently harvested forest stands. Young oaks willnot graduate to the overstory if left shaded. Theareas thinned are off Pine Ledge Road inChester and Old County Road in Haddam.

Hurricane Probability Higher for2007

The Colorado State University TropicalMeteorology Project has predicted that the prob-ability of a major hurricane is greater than normalin 2007. The average probability of a major hur-ricane hitting the land over the last century is 52percent. The prediction for the entire UnitedStates coastline in 2007 is 64 percent. The prob-ability of a major hurricane landfall for the U.S.East Coast is 40 percent, up from the centuryaverage of 31 percent, CSU predicted. The pre-diction, issued yearly for the last 24 years, esti-mates that this year will bring seven hurricanesand 14 storms severe enough to be named.

Some Statistics from theNational Audubon SocietyChristmas Bird CountNew Haven County: December 16, 2006,observations by 75 people:

Canada Geese: 3,704Mallards: 1,590Greater Scaups: 1,500Ring-Billed Gulls: 2,508American Crows: 3,765European Starlings: 4,206White-throated Sparrows: 1,108Common Grackles: 1,089

Storrs: December 16, 2006, by 18 people.

Canada Geese: 2,161Dark-eyed (Slate-Colored) Juncos: 822Ring-Billed Gulls: 295American Crows: 318European Starlings: 1,074White-throated Sparrows: 244TuftedTitmouse: 316House Sparrow: 304

www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/


By CHRISTINE WOODSIDE

Men and women were standingaround dressed in tree cos-tumes. It was October 4,

1924, in the forest along the FarmingtonRiver. A large audience gathered to watchthe actors, playing trees, sway and cry out inweird tones to warn what would happen ifforests weren’t protected. One actor playinga man with an axe strode by the trees, saying,“Might as well get these saplings out of theway first, / The big ones will fall easier.”

The trees then moaned: “Think, think,what you’re doing,” and went on, “Do notdestroy us blindly, we/ Who have scarcelylived./ Think of the needs of your chil-dren…. Have you no vision for the years tocome?”

With this question, the pageant, writtenby Elliott P. Bronson Jr., offered more thanan example of dramatic amateur theaterthat was so popular in the RoaringTwenties. It signified one of the most wide-reaching examples of citizens bandingtogether to practice conservation philan-thropy in Connecticut. Going back to theturn of the 20th century, it is the commit-ment of people, whether they were wealthyor not, and whether they owned land ordidn’t, that has led to the creation of themajority of state forests, state parks, andnature preserves. In the case of PeoplesState Forest, hundreds of subscribers feltstrongly that if they didn’t do something toprotect forests, no other entity could. Theyhad donated cash in increments from $1 tohundreds of dollars to buy the land.

The pageant took place on the first 400

Amateur actorsperformed apageant aboutwoodland healthat the opening dayof Peoples StateForest, whichordinary citizensdonated to thestate in 1924.

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LAND:MORE VALUABLE THAN MONEYConservation philanthropy’s place in Connecticut’s history


served through donations, purchases, orconservation restrictions.

Conservationists hold meetings or semi-nars or mount letter-writing campaigns toreach the landowners of tracts near otherprotected lands. The landowners often agreeto sell at bargain prices rather than making alarge profit. One thing leads to another, andfinally the day comes when various partiesmeet to sign a legal document that closes thedoor on development of that tract.

It can take years to preserve land by phil-

its they could make by selling to developers.Those who do not own land become con-servation philanthropists when they donatemoney to organizations that acquire land forconservation.

The methods conservation groups likeCFPA, the Nature Conservancy, and thestate’s 140 land trusts use to conserve tractslarge enough to be meaningful for nature orfarming are similar to the Peoples StateForest subscription plan. One tract at a timeis bought outright or legally marked as con-

acres the campaign acquired for PeoplesState Forest. About 2,500 people attended.It was the largest forestry event ever held inConnecticut, according to George McLeanMilne writing in the book ConnecticutWoodlands. Among the crowd were Gov.Charles A. Templeton, Connecticut StateForester Austin F. Hawes, and Elliott P.Bronson Sr., the state parks director.

The files of the Connecticut Forest & ParkAssociation, which organized the PeoplesForest subscription campaign, tell the story ofthis campaign. In 1923, Alain C. White ofLitchfield, then the president of CFPA, estab-lished a fund. A secretary’s minutes recordedthe campaign’s goal in 1927, when Peopleswas 1,291 acres into the project.

“The fundamental idea has been not tosecure large subscriptions from a fewwealthy people,” the secretary wrote, “butsmall ones from a great many contributorsor from organizations. The women’s clubsof the state took up the idea enthusiastically,and in 1924 the first purchases were made inthe town of Barkhamsted, along theFarmington River, and the forest was calledthe People’s Forest.

“Since the average price of land in theregion is about $8 per acre, we have askedfor contributions in terms of this price,under the slogan, ‘Eight dollars buys anacre.’ As the remaining lands average some-what better timbered, we may have to raisethe slogan to, ‘Ten dollars buys an acre.’”

The message remains urgent

More than 80 years later, land conserva-tion advocates in private organizations, inland trusts, and in CFPA contend that theurgency to protect land is even greater thanit was in the 1920s. Land, anything open,has become so valuable for developmentthat to protect any more of it relies on citi-zens with a strong land ethic. Those whohave inherited land become conservationphilanthropists when they believe that landis worth more than money, that is, the prof-

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anthropic means, but the experts in conser-vation philanthropy say that the delay is nor-mal. Those taking steps to sell at bargainprices, or donate, or to create easements,should expect it to take some time and notlet that squash their enthusiasm. There is evi-dence, of course, that land conservation cankeep municipal taxes lower than they wouldbe if developers built houses. The thinkinggoes that houses bring more children totown, and children cost more money to sendto public schools than their parents pay inmunicipal taxes. While not everyone believesthat the situation is that black and white, thereality is that land preservation can deliver afinancial benefit. In the last 15 years or so,many towns in Connecticut have establishedopen space accounts to buy land as itbecomes available. Despite that reality,though, the matter at hand in this article isnot to paint land preservation merely in tax-benefit terms. Conservation philanthropy atits heart is not about net financial gain butabout other values.

“Without philanthropy through thedecades, we wouldn’t have the network of pro-tected lands that we have today,” said KevinEssington, project director of the NatureConservancy’s Pawcatuck Borderlands proj-ect. “That legacy of charitable giving for con-servation continues today. Where I work ineastern Connecticut, there are many, manypeople who feel that the land is more impor-tant than money, and they have gone to greatlengths, differing lengths to preserve it.”

It was this ethic that has saved many parcelsfor nature, for water quality, and, not to for-get, for beauty.

Examples of conservationphilanthropy

Connecticut’s state park and forest systemexists largely because of philanthropy. So dothe many acres of municipal preserves andtrail systems. Here are some examples of thatethic at work:

After Peoples State Forest grew to 3,111acres over the several years of the campaign,

the American Legion felt inspired. The legionbought acreage across the Farmington Riverfrom Peoples State Forest and donated it tothe state, creating the American Legion StateForest.

� Over a period of a quarter century, at leasta dozen separate legal transactions in thetown of Lyme protected a corridor of natu-ral land in the valley of the Eightmile River,a tributary of the Connecticut. Land fromHamburg Cove to the Salem border hasbecome protected via the legal declarationknown here as the conservation restriction(in layman’s language, an easement pro-hibiting building), or sold, or donated out-right to either the Lyme Land Trust or theNature Conservancy, tract by tract.

� The ethics of Maxwell M. Beldingprotected a large chunk of the town ofVernon. In the early 1980s, Maxwell M.Belding donated 282 acres of trout streams,forest, and fields in that town to the state ofConnecticut, solely to protect wildlife. Givenin four parcels, the land bordered BoltonRoad, Valley Falls Road, and Reservoir Road.As Jane Seymour writes in a resource man-agement plan three years ago, the Beldingfamily felt a connection to the land, on whichMax’s father, Frederick, had grown buck-wheat for home consumption after buyingthe land in the 1920s and 1930s. The familyties were strong through the love of troutfishing and the careful planting of thousandsof evergreen trees. From 1981 to 2002, theConnecticut Department of EnvironmentalProtection managed the land, through whichthe Shenipsit Trail, a Blue-Blazed HikingTrail, passes. In 2002, Mr. Belding donatedfunds for stewardship, enabling the DEP tohire a property steward.

�Frances Osborne Kellogg was a com-mitted conservationist who willed her houseand 350 acres of farmland in Derby andAnsonia to the state of Connecticut. Afterher death at age 80 in 1956, OsbornedaleState Park opened. It is named after the dairyand Holstein breeding farms she had runwith her late husband, architect WaldoKellogg. Before her marriage, her father’s

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Connecticut Forest & Park Association's fund-raising in the early 1940s saved the EastHaddam estate of actor William Gillette for a state park.


death when she was 31 had thrust her intothe world of business. She ran the UnionFabric Company and ran or helped to oper-ate several other ventures here and inEngland. She was married in her 40s and sheand her husband developed the farmstogether. He died in 1928, but Mrs. Kelloggcontinued her business and communitywork, including serving as vice-president ofCFPA, for many years. The park also includesthe Kellogg Environmental Center, whichtrains teachers and runs environmental pro-grams.

� East Haddam resident RichardGoodwin, a retired biology professor atConnecticut College, donated the land thatbecame the Burnham Brook Preserve of theNature Conservancy. He began by donating44 acres in 1960, and the preserve nowmeasures 1,133 acres. He has given anendowment to the Nature Conservancy tooversee the land after his death. Anotherfund will go to the Middlesex CommunityFoundation. Dr. Goodwin was chairman ofCFPA’s Natural Area Committee in the1950s before he co-founded theConnecticut chapter of the NatureConservancy.

� In Redding, the ethics of Mary AnnGuitar, a former first selectwoman whorecently was honored by the state on her 85thbirthday, led to the founding of the ReddingLand Trust in 1965, one of the earlier andvery active land trusts in the state. TheRedding Land Trust has protected 1,500acres over the years.

�Alain andMayWhite, brother and sis-ter (she was 11 years older) loved the family’scountry house in Litchfield and lived therefull-time for many years in the last century. In1908 they began buying abandoned farmsand forests. In 1913 they set up a non-profitfoundation, the White MemorialFoundation, which is a voluntary taxpayer,where 4,000 acres include a museum. Thetwo also donated 6,000 acres, through the


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foundation, for Mohawk State Forest inCornwall and Goshen, led the Peoples StateForest campaign, and donated land forMacedonia Brook and Kent Falls parks.

� In East Haddam, Starr and PhilSayres have recently donated an easementon roughly 70 acres of land they have home-steaded for three decades to the ConnecticutForest & Park Association. Mrs. Sayres, whois CFPA’s development coordinator, did notwant to attract attention to her family. Butthe example instructs those who might fol-low, so the Sayres agreed to have me visitthem and to discuss their choice to protectthe land. Mrs. Sayres walked through the oldapple orchard, gesturing to the acreage manypeople had expressed interest in buying. “Wewere once told that we could put 36 houseson this land,” she said. It was this informa-tion that cemented their decision not to sellthe land. The Sayres talked to their growndaughters, who share their conservationethic and agreed that protecting the acreagewas the proper course of action.

Land’s escalating valueThe next few decades will be crucial in the

movement to preserve land in a state whereland values continue to escalate. The decisionto keep land as open space means acceptingthat it won’t earn the owners nearly as muchmoney if they sell it to the state or to a landtrust or conservation group. Even when own-ers pursue other ways of preservation, such askeeping the land but granting an easement toa conservation group to stop future develop-ment, owners today have to consider theaccelerating costs of buying land.

The economic value of today’s land is alltied in to what could be done to it. That’salways been true, but the costs were less.First, look at some history.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, a cycle ofuse and abuse, as University of ConnecticutCooperative Extension Forester StephenBroderick has labeled it, amounted to theclearing of land for farming, logging, min-ing, and other industries. People havelearned how to stop that cycle; Broderick’swork as a forester is to teach land ownersand others who manage open land how to

grow timber, farm, attract wildlife, in a waythat ensures future health of the land.

Much of today’s remaining open land isvulnerable to another kind of cycle. “Nowthe cycle of use and abuse involves concreteand cement,” said Frederick B. Gahagan, aNew London-based lawyer who specializesin land conservation. “Everywhere you go,the most likely outcome for a large parcel isto divide it up.”

That is because land costs, and associatedtaxes, have become so high. Consider thePeoples State Forest campaign. The land forPeoples sold for about $8 to $10 an acre inthe 1920s. Adjusting for inflation, thatwould be $92 to $114 in today’s money.How much would a subscriber have to paytoday for open land? Much more. Here area few examples.

In Washington, Connecticut, where thetown had debated contentiously aboutwhether to use tax money to buy the Potterfamily farm, and where the family has with-drawn the offer to sell, citing citizen acrimo-ny, the town had proposed to spend about$6,800 per acre to protect 97 acres of thefarm (building a few houses on the fewdozen other acres). The farm has been onthe market for three years, at a price of –ready? – about $70,000 per acre.

For another example, the state of Con-necticut has agreed to purchase the develop-ment rights to the Bomba family farm inSeymour at a cost of about $4,000 per acre.

Third, Gov. M. Jodi Rell recentlyannounced that the state would pay $6.9 mil-lion to help preserve 1,944 acres in 23 towns.The state will pay an average of $3,549 peracre, but the under the program the stategrants less than half of the total cost. Lookingat the total costs of the projects in those 23towns reveals a wildly varying per-acre cost:$14,500 per acre (for 10 acres in Canaan,where the Nature Conservancy will pay the dif-ference), $13,690 per acre (for 42 acres inWatertown, where the Watertown Land TrustInc. will pay the difference), $6,000 per acre(for 150 acres in Branford, where the town willpay the difference), and $3,060 per acre (for


LAND FOR THEPEOPLE –

A CFPASUCCESS STORY

For more than 100 years, CFPA,through the generosity and foresight

of its leadership and its membership, hashelped to conserve many of Connecticut’smost cherished state parks and forests.Among them are Gillette Castle StatePark, Sleeping Giant State Park,Sherwood Island State Park, Bluff PointState Park and Peoples State Forest.

Today, CFPA continues to championthe cause of state parks and public landsand to encourage the conservation of pri-vately held lands for generations to come.

The year 2007 offers a unique opportu-nity for landowners who are interested inconserving all or a portion of their proper-ties. A provision in the Pension ProtectionAct of 2006 increases the deductible por-tion of a gifted conservation easementfrom 30 percent to 50 percent, makingdonation of an easement in 2007 highlyattractive.

In the next few months, CFPA will pub-lish two informational pamphlets forlandowners wishing to consider theiroptions regarding the future of their prop-erties. The first will describe the kinds ofland preservation agreements that areavailable to property owners interested inconserving their land. The second willdescribe the step-by-step process of placinga conservation easement on a prized land-holding or on land of particular ecological,agricultural, or recreational importance.

To learn more, please contact AdamMoore, executive director, at 860-346-2372.


STATE PARK OR FOREST DONOR ACRES GIVEN,IF KNOWN

Algonquin State Forest Helen B. Kitchel 500

American Legion State Forest American Legion 213

Beaver Brook State Park George Dudley Seymour Trust 400

Becket Hill State Park George Dudley Seymour Trust 260

Bigelow Hollow State Park George Dudley Seymour Trust 87

Black Rock State Park E. R. Williams 1Black Rock Forest, Inc.

Bluff Point State Park Henry Gardner, III 28

Campbell Falls State White Memorial FoundationPark Reserve

Chatfield Hollow State Park M. J. Forster et al. 8

Cockaponsett State Forest Robert W. Priest 1.5Ralph M. Read 60Robert O. Loosley 8Anderson-Wilcox, Inc. 1.56

Collis P. Huntington State Park A.M and A.H. Huntington 573Anna H. Huntington 308D. Lufkin 6

Dennis Hill State Park Frederick Shepard Dennis 240

Enders State Forest John F. Enders et al. 1433.62

Forster Pond State Park George Dudley Seymour Trust 154

Gay City State Park Emma P. Foster, Estate of 1494

Gardner Lake George Dudley Seymour Trust 60

George Dudley Seymour George Dudley Seymour Trust 1281State Park State Park

Gillette Castle State Park Connecticut Forest &Park Association

Great Pond State James L. Goodwin, Estate of 280.6Forest/Massacoe

HaddamMeadows State Park Hazen Foundation 154


Haley Farm State Park Groton Open Space CommissionConnecticut Forest & Park Association

Hammonassett Beach George C. Waldo 8State Park

Harkness Memorial State Park Mary Harkness, Estate of 231

Haystack Mountain State Park Ellen Battell Stoeckel

Higganum Reservoir State Park George Dudley Seymour Trust 158

Hopemead State Park George Dudley Seymour Trust 60

Hopeville Pond State Park United States of America 316

Housatonic State Forest Edward C. Childs 10

Humaston Brook State Park H.W. and E.G. Gill 4

Hurd State Park George Dudley Seymour Trust 463

James L. Goodwin State Forest James L. Goodwin 2171

Kent Falls State Park White Memorial Foundation 200

Kettletown State Park Edward Carrington, Estate of 485

Larkin Bridle Trail Charles L. Larkin

Macedonia Brook State Park Masonic Charity Fund 6White Memorial Foundation 1552

Mashamoquet Brook State Park Sarah Fay

Mashapaug Lake, George Dudley Seymour TrustBigelow Hollow State Park

Millers Pond State Park George Dudley Seymour Trust 260

Millers Pond State Park E.B. Boden 1

MohawkMountain State Park Alain White 2900W.R. and M. Schoenknecht 14

Mohawk State Forest White Memorial Foundation

Mohegan State Forest Margaret T. Bouvers 150Margaret T. Bouvers 16Ruth F. Waldo 16Ruth F. Waldo 34Ruth F. Waldo 34Ruth F. Waldo 1

Mount Bushnell State Park A.L. White, E.W. Nichols, 30R.W. Putnam

Mount Tom State Park Charles H. Senff

Mt. Riga State Park M. J. Stoeckel et al. 5

STATE PARKS AND STATE FORESTSCREATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY CHARITABLE GIFT



Natchaug State Forest Russell Perkins 200

Nathan Hale State Forest George Dudley Seymour Trust

Naugatuck State Forest J. H. Whittemore

Nehantic State Forest Anne G. Enderson 60

Sylvia K. Bingham 100

Nepaug State Forest FloraWerner, Estate of 104

Nye/Holman State Forest Bertha Place 60Martha and Harold Graham 2

Osbornedale State Park Frances O. Kellogg 350

Pachaug State Forest Kenneth S. Mageon 10John and Elvira ShwartzUnited States of America 9461The Cranska Corporation 24

Penwood State Park Curtis Veeder 800J. A. Hill 6

Peoples State Forest People of Connecticut 2954

Platt Hill State Park George Dudley Seymour Trust 81

Pomeroy State Park C. B. Pomeroy 90A. W. Gates 14

PutnamMemorial State Park N. C. Brainard 12

Quaddick State Park United States of America 499and State Forest

Salmon River State Forest United States of America 803

Seth Low Pierrepont State Park Seth Pierrepont, Estate of 305

Shenipsit State Forest Hector Coineau 7

Silver Sands State Park City of Milford 52

Sleeping Giant State Park Sleeping Giant Association 40Frank S. Butterworth 66H.C. Leonard 11

Southford Falls State Park H.E. Levy and R.E. Levine 65

Stoddard Hill State Park. George Dudley Seymour Trust 55

Talcott Mountain State Park H.F. and E.N. Bidwell 28

Talcott Mountain State Park John S. Ellsworth 124Connecticut Forest & Park AssociationFarmington RiverWatershed Association


Talcott Mountain State Park Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

Topsmead State Park Edith M. Chase 514

Wadsworth Falls State Park Col. Clarence S. Wadsworth /Rockfall Foundation

Whittemore Glen State Park Lewis Engineering 1

Wolf Den State Park (Mashamoquet) W.C. Hotchkin 146

Wooster Mountain State Park Southern New England Telephone Co. 0.09

TOTAL ACREAGE DONATED 33730.37

Sources: A Shared Landscape, by Joseph Leary (Friends of ConnecticutState Parks, 2004)CFPA files on the George Dudley Seymour Trust.List of State lands acquired by gift from 1947 to June 30, 1971.Connecticut Woodlands by George Milne (CFPA, 1995)


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281 acres in East Haddam, where the town will pay the difference), to namejust four.

In 1924, CFPA members believed that when philanthropy’s goal was tobuy thousands of acres over several years’ time, all donations would mat-ter, whether they were $1 or $5,000. CFPA continues to believe that alldonations matter as it invites philanthropists to donate amounts large andsmall to its land-preservation fund, the Hibbard Trust for Land and Trails.

Useful contactsConnecticut Forest & Park Association, Executive Director Adam R.

Moore, 860-346-2372. CFPA buys land for open space through itsHibbard Trust for Land and Trails.

Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Division ofLand Acquisitions and Management. Suzanne M. Barkyoumb. 860-424-3016. State funds match the grants and donations of other organizationsseeking to protect open space.

The Nature Conservancy, Connecticut chapter, 55 High Street,Middletown, CT 06457. 860-344-0716. The conservancy’s ConnecticutLand Trust Service Bureau can help to find a land trust in a town or toestablish one.



By JEAN CRUM JONES

Several years ago, when I was giving a farm tour to firstgraders from a very affluent town located on thesouthwestern coast of Connecticut, we stopped to visit

the calf and I asked the children to name some dairy foods.One child eagerly said, “Milk and eggs.” Trying not to looksurprised, I waited for some other responses. There were noneand the teachers standing behind the children lookedawestruck.

Children rarely see farms anymore in our highly suburban-ized corner of Connecticut and most only know that foodcomes from supermarkets – and that milk and eggs are foundin the dairy case. When I was a child—five decades ago—growing up in suburban Wilmington, Delaware, it was quitecommon to see cows grazing in fields and little farms whilerunning errands in the car. Only about a mile from my housewas a small dairy where I could watch a tanker truck taking

milk from the farms and the small fleet of milk trucks thatwould deliver the milk in bottles to all the milk boxesthroughout the neighborhoods. The milkman’s milk, in stur-dy glass bottles, had a thick layer of cream on top and thinnermilk below. We would return the bottles to the milk box whenthey were empty. We always knew when the cows were enjoy-ing the new growing pastures of spring because the flavor ofthe milk changed, rich with the taste of spring’s wild herbs.

My husband-to-be, in the same era, was growing up on adairy farm in Shelton, Connecticut. The dairy business, start-ed by his great-grandfather, was the family’s livelihood. Thefamily milked about 30 cows and managed 250 acres of farm-lands. The farm comfortably supported two generations. Theynamed all the cows, which had distinct personalities and theirown stalls. Most of their neighbors were dairy farmers, too,living on farms scattered throughout the hillsides of his cornerof Shelton.

Most of us are not aware of where the cows that provide

our dairy products really live.

TheDisappearing CowsofConnecticut

FROMTHE LAND


When we think of dairy farms today, most of us imagine rollingfields, grazing cows, and big red barns. That has been an iconicConnecticut scene for almost 150 years. But this image is now undergrave threat, because most of us are not aware of where the cows thatprovide our dairy products really live.

The earliest English settlers brought cows to North America in1624. Some arrived with each early boatload. In 1626, each family inPlymouth Colony was allotted one cow and two goats for every sixshares of land they held. The self-sufficient homestead was the originalAmerican dream and became the typical farming pattern that enduredfor two centuries.

The cow was at the center of the domestic economy. Rich in protein,fat, calcium, and B vitamins, milk was known as “white meat,” capableof transforming an inadequate diet of cornmeal and wheat bread intoa passable one, especially for children. A cow needed nothing morethan an area of grass. In exchange, she was an incredibly productive andefficient provider. The cow gave fresh milk, cream, butter, and cheesefor the family. Each year she provided a calf to raise for beef or to sell.She also provided manure for the garden, sour milk for the chickens,and skim milk for the pig.

In only four generations since the founding of Hartford in 1636,Connecticut developed a thriving commercial agriculture. Initially, thesettlers grew crops, but around 1750, thegrazing of animals – cattle,horses, mules, sheep, andhogs – became a predomi-nant form of agriculture.Cattle from New York andVermont were drivendown to Conn-ecticut for fat-t e n i n g

up in the spring and summer, then exported to the West Indies in thefall. The planting of timothy, red clover, and other English grassesaided in the development of rich pasturelands. The important by-prod-ucts of animal farming, butter and cheese, were also exported. So richwas Connecticut’s agriculture by the time of the American Revolutionthat George Washington called the third smallest state “The ProvisionState.” Connecticut supplied more food and cannon for theContinental Army than any other state.

After the Revolution, dairy products continued to be an importantexport crop, and farmers began practicing selective breeding andimporting new breeds of cattle and sheep. However, during the mid-1800s, a huge exodus from farms to work in factories or seek wealthon the western frontiers became a great crisis in Connecticut agricul-ture. The development of railroads enabled western farmers to shipmeat into New England more profitably than New Englanders couldgrow their own livestock for slaughter.

Railroad transportation and the growth of cities forced Connecticutfarmers to change their agricultural methods, products, and crops. Itwas during this period that Connecticut’s milk industry began. Initially,the first commercial dairies began in the cities. Herds of cows werehoused in filthy stables and they were fed the waste residues from grainused by nearby liquor distillers and breweries. This “swill milk” got theattention of anti-alcohol temperance groups, who began pushing forsanitary reform and for the location of dairies in the countryside. Theimprovements in transportation along with the invention of pasteuriza-tion made this possible. By the end of the 19th century, pasteurizationwas widely practiced. This improved the quality and safety of milk forconsumers, as well as increased milk’s shelf life.

As a result of pasteurization, milk enjoyed an immense surge in pop-ularity, which was insured by the concurrent invention of the refriger-

ator. A favorite American icy refreshment, known asthe milkshake, became popular at this time. Late in the

19th century, doctors credited all-milk diets with all man-ners of therapeutic effects, and fresh milk became

DisappearingCowscontinued from page 15

The individual farms lost their

identities to consumers, because

processors pooled the milk and

stamped their names, not the individual

farms’ names, on the bottles.

Development of homogenization and

flavor control equipment further

diminished the farm-fresh taste.



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one of the major products of agriculture in theNew England states during the 20th century.

In the early 1900s, the government’srequirement to pasteurize milk gave milkprocessors and distributors the edge over farm-ers, since it required expensive equipment thesmall dairies could not afford. Also, in the earlydays of the dairy industry, the U.S. PublicHealth Service encouraged large dairy contractors because they wereeasier to regulate than hundreds of small independent dealers. Yetanother factor was that the individual farms lost their identities to con-sumers, because processors pooled the milk and stamped their names,not the individual farms’ names, on the bottles. Development ofhomogenization and flavor control equipment further diminished thefarm-fresh taste. All milk began to have the same bland flavor so thatpeople did not necessarily feel a need to know the source of the milk.

During the Great Depression, all dairy farmers faced a great eco-nomic crisis and began dumping milk because the farm price theyreceived was so inadequate. At this time, the federal government devel-oped a price scheme to keep the farmers in business and to keepAmerican consumers supplied with affordable milk. What began as anemergency measure has survived as an entrenched price control systemtoday that is so incomprehensible that only a dairy lobbyist can under-stand it. In New England today, these price controls are a great detri-ment because the costs of milk production are higher here, yet farmersmust accept a federal price. Any sensible reform to meet today’s eco-nomic conditions seems impossible due to the extremely strong andpolitically savvy dairy lobby.

Most of the milk in the United States today is processed, priced, anddistributed by only a handful of multi-billion-dollar firms. In the dairysection of the grocery, there seems to be many “different” brands, butin actuality only a few companies control most of the milk products.One plastic wrapper around a plastic gallon jug of milk pictures a farmscene with grazing cows on a rolling hillside with a big red barn in thebackground. The label proclaims “from local farms to local families.”This milk comes from America’s largest dairy processor and distributorin the United States. It controls more than 40 dairy brands, includingthree organic milk brands. This corporation controls 100 processingplants throughout the United States and Europe and makes more than$10 billion in revenue from its dairy division. Because these large com-panies buy such large portions of the raw, unprocessed milk in theworld, they wield enormous power over the way milk is produced andwhat it costs. Today, traditional Connecticut dairy farmers have virtu-ally no control over their livelihood and their product.

Today’s American dairy industry is highly profitable and sells $27billion dollars in sales each year. Most of the milk in this country is nowproduced west of the Mississippi. California is the country’s numberone dairy state – producing over a fifth of our milk supply. Some ofthese western concentrated animal feeding and milking operations con-tain anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 dairy cows. They produce so muchmilk that they dump cheap milk into the marketplace and that makes

it impossible for New England dairy farmersto compete.

How dairy foods are being produced inthe United States these days is generatingcontroversy. Since 1970 the average amountof milk obtained from each cow has gonefrom 9,700 to 19,000 pounds per year.Artificial growth hormones have made someof this possible. So have high grain diets,increased use of antibiotics, and confinedhousing for cows. Some concerned observers

believe that this increase in productivity is coming at the expense of thehealth of the cows, the environment, food safety and the existence oflocal, independent farmers. Since 1970, U.S. dairy producers havereduced the number of dairy farms from 650,00 to 90,000 andreduced the number of dairy cows from 12 million to 9 million, all thewhile increasing the supply of milk.

What has been the effect on Connecticut dairy farms? In 1980, therewere 663 dairy farms here; in 1990, 367, and in 2006 the number was162. The price Connecticut dairy farmers received for their milk in1980 was $13.06 per hundred pounds, or cwt.; adjusted for inflationthe current price should be $31.32 per cwt. What dairy farmers actu-ally received in 2006 was $15.67 per cwt, while their production costswere 15.40 per cwt.

Connecticut’s dairy farmers are now facing a tremendous financialcrisis. All Connecticut citizens who care about our quality of life shouldbe concerned about this dire situation. Cows are effectively a threat-ened species on our landscape. Dairy farming is responsible for the useof 75 to 85 percent of our state’s agricultural cropland – that equatesto more than 100,000 acres. The demise of local dairy farms makesthese lands ripe for development, which means more sprawl, more con-gestion, and higher taxes. Connecticut becomes more food insecureand less able to convert to the next agricultural revolution – perhapsbiofuels? Beyond that, we sacrifice the possibility of flavorful foods anda loss of our agricultural heritage. We will become even more suspi-cious about our food – not knowing who is producing it and whetherit is safe to eat.

Some Connecticut dairy farms have diversified from the traditionalrole of only raising animals for milking and shipping their milk to a pro-cessing plant. They are selling raw milk, cheeses, and ice cream fromfarm stores or at farmers' markets. Some offer farm visits, sell custombeef and pork, eggs, and produce. Others are raising goats and sheep.An enterprising group of eastern Connecticut dairymen and womencreated their own premium milk brand, called The Farmer’s Cow,which is guaranteed to be nothing but wholesome Connecticut milk.Their picture is on the label so you can see your dairy farmer and theirWeb site allows you to visit their farms.

Let’s continue to share Connecticut’s bucolic landscape with cows.Seek out Connecticut dairy products and let your political leadersknow that you feel this is an important issue to be addressed now.These are the only ways we and our cows will have a future together.

Jean Crum Jones is a registered dietician and a member of the CFPA Boardof Directors. She and her husband own the Jones Family Farm in Shelton.


Most of the milk in the United States

today is processed, priced, and

distributed by only a handful of

multi-billion-dollar firms.

Traditional Connecticut dairy

farmers have virtually no control over

their livelihood and their product.

DisappearingCowscontinued from page 16

THE BEAUTYOF THEMAD RIVERON THEMATTATUCK


The Mad River, a tributary of theNaugatuck River, runs peacefullythrough hemlock ravines with pools

and cascades on the beginning stretch of the36-mile Mattatuck Trail. Over the trail’s firstthree and a half miles, hikers see caves, mixedhardwoods, mountain laurels, hemlocks, anoverlook, and a former beaver pond.

Distance and Time

This hike covers 3.5 miles on mostly levelterrain, with minor ups and downs. It paral-lels the river for the first mile or so. Oneshort scramble up a rocky ledge comes nearthe end. Allow two to three hours to followa linear hike from Peterson Park, on MadRiver Road, to another parking area onWolcott Road.

To continue on to the 60-foot-highButtermilk Falls, walk another 1.4 miles(adding about another hour) and end atSouth Main Street.

Directions and Parking

From the junction of Route 69 and Route322 in Wolcott, drive .2 mile north of theRoute 322 crossing and turn left on MadRiver Road. Go .2 mile to Peterson MemorialPark on the right. The trail begins behind theskateboard area. Ample parking is available.

The end point is the parking area byMarino Pond in Plymouth. If you take twocars, to park a car at the end point, fromPeterson Park head north on Mad RiverRoad, and soon turn right onto Spindle HillRoad. Where Spindle Hill Road meetsAllentown Road, stay straight to continue

north on Allentown Road. Watch for theparking area on the right near the pond.

If you add the hike to Buttermilk Falls,limited parking is available on the west sideof South Main Street in Plymouth. You alsocould have someone meet you. To park here,from Marino Pond parking area drive northon Wolcott Road for about two-thirds of amile. Stay straight when Greystone Roadcomes in from the left; the road turns intoSouth Main Street. Park near the intersectionwith Lane Hill Road.

Route Description

From the rear of the skateboard area inPeterson Park, hike north on a paved paththat quickly transitions to a woods road.Reach a fork with Break Hill Brook as it

flows into the Mad River from the left—oneof a series of falls, cascades, and deep poolsalong this appealing stretch. At .3 mile, crossthe Mad River on bridges built by the BoyScouts. Enter a narrow gorge flanked on thewest side by the steep walls of nearby BecarHill. The trail does not go over its 1,000-footsummit but follows the river upstreamthrough a hemlock forest that was damagedin the 1998 ice storm. Pass a glacial boulderon the left and soon reach the foundation ofan old mill dam at 1.1 miles.

Turn left, away from the river, cross underelectric power lines and turn left onto a dirtroad at 1.3 miles. Turn left into the woodsand descend through a thicket of mountainlaurel, whose blooms hit their peak the last

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The true flowers of the flowering dogwood areindeed the greenish-yellow ones described above,but what the casual observer thinks of as the tree’sflowers are the bracts. The bracts are really whiteleaves, not petals, that surround the actually flow-ers. They emerge in spring and bring levity andbeauty to any forest whose understory the dog-wood graces. The flowering dogwood can befound in woodlands across Connecticut; it is quiteabundant at the John R. Camp OutdoorClassroom and Demonstration Forest inMiddletown and at the Field Forest in Durham.

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A HYPOTHESIS ON LEISURE AND TRAILSThis homemade diagram, by former CFPA President Goodwin B. Beach, dates to his tenure in 1944-46. Mr. Beach, of Hartford, followed a popu-lar line of thinking that persisted into the 1970s -- that machines would shorten the typical work week, leaving many hours for leisure. He sawa role for CFPA in helping people enjoy that leisure time.

History has proven that Mr. Beach was wrong in some predictions: Americans sleep less and work more than they used to. But perhaps hewas right in saying that they need encouragement to enjoy their leisure time to the fullest.


By LORI PARADIS BRANT

People have been criticizing environ-mental education since its inception.

Some vilify it as political activism with a sky-is-falling mentality. Some accuse these educa-tors of being biased and emotional ratherthan basing their information on science.The accusers say that environmental teacherswant to persuade their audience to their sideof saving the environment rather than build-ing their audience’s knowledge and thinkingskills. A lack of high quality, national envi-ronmental education standards for the pro-fession have likely played a role in keepingthis controversy alive at different times.

Fortunately, there are many in the envi-ronmental education profession who do seethe forest despite the trees and strive to usebest practices in their work. These educatorscontinue learning themselves in order to stayinformed and provide accurate informationon environmental issues. They believe “edu-cation is not filling a pail but the lighting ofa fire,” as William Butler Yeats once pro-

claimed. Quality educators seek to teachtheir audience to use their problem-solvingskills to solve an environmental dilemma,rather than espousing a “correct” answer tothe various issues that concern our land andnatural resources.

How does an environmental educatorcontinue to learn best practices and stay cur-rent on education reform? How does aschool system, teacher, parent, youth groupadvisor, or other community leader knowhow to choose an appropriate environmentalprogram or resource for their group? A cer-tification program that sets standards for

environmental education would provide theconduit. However, a national certificationprogram does not yet exist for environmen-tal educators.

It is true that the programs can vary wide-ly in accuracy, delivering age-appropriatecontent and quality. Critiques and criticismsI just mentioned bring an opportunity forchange. Since 1993, the National Project forEnvironmental Excellence has been explor-ing environmental education reform. Thisendeavor will help to set standards for bal-anced, scientifically accurate, and compre-hensive environmental programs, resources,and materials. This venture is a program ofthe North American Association forEnvironmental Education (NAAEE). Theassociation is a network of professionals, stu-dents, and volunteers who work in the fieldof environmental education throughoutNorth America and in over 55 countriesaround the world.

The National Project for Excellence inEnvironmental Education will help to buildan environmentally literate citizenry. It will

do this by creating strin-gent standards for every-one who teaches this sub-ject, whether in a tradi-tional classroom or at anature center or otherinstitution. This develop-ment in the environmental

education field resembles the K-12 educationeducation reform movement.

Accountability and standards are a signifi-cant ingredient in the K-12 educational pro-fession. There are standards of learning thatinclude setting expectations of what studentsshould understand by a certain grade level.Guidelines have long been established for K-12 teachers who are expected to further theirown learning throughout their teachingcareers. Connecticut is known for having oneof the most challenging exams and guidelinesfor certifying public school teachers. Whilenot without its controversies, especially since

theenactmentof thefederal No ChildLeft Be-hind law,teachers expect andaccept educationstandards, credibilityand accountability.

Schoolshirequali-fied teachers, whomust follow guide-lines, or frameworks,for learning, teach-ing, and certification.Nationally, manyeducation-orient-ed groups have

established a series of benchmarks for educa-tion. State boards of education often use thesenational standards as they revise and updatetheir state and local standards and curriculum.

Connecticut teachers have formal standardsfor teaching as well as learning and leadership.They are expected throughout their careers tolearn more and improve their teaching meth-ods. Connecticut is recognized as having highstandards of and for its teachers, thus can certifyqualified and competent educators for the class-room. Hopefully, Connecticut’s citizens knowthat our teachers are some of the most compe-tent across the nation, thanks in part to our strin-gent teaching requirements and standards.

By developing a series of environmentalGuidelines for Excellence, NAAEE has begunto establish similarly stringent standards forenvironmental educators. This series is com-prised of the following resources:Environmental Education Materials:Guidelines for Excellence; EnvironmentalEducation Collection – A Review of Resourcesfor Education; Excellence in EnvironmentalEducation – Guidelines for Learning (PreK-12); and Guidelines for the Initial Preparationand Professional Development of Environ-men-tal Educators.NAAEE has recently created twoinitiatives to promote the Guidelines forExcellence. A campaign known as “Adopt theGuidelines” encourages organizations to use

Education CoordinatorLori Paradis Brant

ESSENTIAL FACTS OF LIFE

The National Project for Excellence in

Environmental Education will help to build an

environmentally literate citizenry.

FAR FROM TREE-HUGGINGEnvironmental Education Sets National Standards

JOHN H. NOYESJohn H. Noyes, a retired forester, Christmas tree grower, and former CFPA board

member, died December 22, at age 92. He was born in Old Lyme, a descendent of thefirst minister in Lyme and Old Lyme, the Rev. Moses Noyes. He and his wife, WernethLouise Wilson, had returned to Old Lyme when he retired in 1980.

A graduate of the Yale School of Forestry, he began his forestry career with theNortheastern Timber Salvage Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.During World War II, he served as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Amphibious Corps inthe south Pacific. After the war, worked for the U.S. Forest Service in the White Mountain,Daniel Boone, and George Washington National Forests.

He later became a professor and Massachusetts state extension forester at theUniversity of Massachusetts. He wrote many articles, received numerous awards, andhelped start the Massachusetts Christmas Tree Growers’ Association and other forestryorganizations in Massachusetts. He was active in several conservation organizations inConnecticut. He served on the CFPA board between 1981 and 1986.

J. STANLEY WATSONJ. Stanley Watson of Middletown, a forester for Northeast Utilities for 21 years and a

member of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association Board of Directors, died January3 at the age of 52. Mr. Watson managed NU properties and ran its timber managementand hunting programs.

Mr. Watson, a 1980 graduate of the University of Connecticut, was a licensed arboristand active in community work. He helped establish Middletown’s Urban ForestryCommission, stewarded the city’s “Tree City USA” designation, and served as presidentof the Rockfall Foundation.

He is survived by his wife, Nancy Thorpe Watson; his son, Justin; and his sister,Norma Watson. His daughter, Erika Lin Watson, predeceased him. Memorial contribu-tions may be directed to CFPA, 16 Meriden Road, Rockfall, Connecticut, 06481.

MARGARET MCCAULEYMargaret McCauley, 47, the executive director of the Sunny Valley Preserve in New

Milford, where she lived, and a former member of the CFPA Trails Committee, diedFebruary 20. Miss McCauley is survived by her parents, James and Carol PrattMcCauley of Beacon Falls; a sister, Suzanne Weed of Seymour; and two brothers, Robertand Timothy McCauley, both of Monroe.

Memorial donations may be directed to the Connecticut Hospice, 100 Beach Road,Branford, 06405, or to the Sunny Valley Preserve, the Nature Conservancy, 8 SunnyValley Lane, New Milford, 06776.


OBITUARIES

the guidelines in their programs. TheGuidelines Trainer’s Bureau was established totrain environmental educators to give presen-tations to a variety of audiences on theGuidelines and how they can be used.

Connecticut Forest & Park Association hasalready distinguished itself with the NationalProject for Excellence in EnvironmentalEducation for the program, Project LearningTree, of which I am the co-coordinator. TheProject Learning Tree Activity Guide forPreK-8 received an excellent review from thisprogram. Project Learning Tree has also for-mally adopted the national guidelines and willuse them in the development of new materi-als, updates of current materials to helpimprove the quality of environmental educa-tion, and to increase its credibility. InDecember 2006, I was trained by NAAEE inthe Guidelines for Excellence series, and I andhave become a part of the Trainer’s Bureau.The CFPA Education Committee will bemeeting to discuss means to apply the guide-lines to CFPA’s education programs. Toschedule a presentation to your group on theGuidelines, please contact me [email protected].

For more information on the national envi-ronmental education guidelines, visitwww.naaee.org and stay tuned for futurecolumns about this topic, including themovement towards certifying environmentaleducators.

Lori Paradis Brant is the education coordinatorof CFPA.Visit her blog at www.ctwoodlands.blogspot.com.

two weeks of June. Reach Spindle Hill Road at 1.8 miles and turn leftto continue on the road for about 100 feet, then turning right (north-west) into the woods. Pass blueberry bushes at 2.0 miles and a smallmanmade pond (dry in the summer) on the right at 2.3 miles.

At 2.6 miles, pass Charlie Krug Cave, then cross a seasonally-flow-ing brook twice. Remain on the trail as it joins an old woods road.Turn left at Indian Jack Cave at 2.8 miles. This cave is named after aNative American who lived here with his family in the early 1800s.Seventy feet from the cave a side trail, .1 mile in length and blazed inyellow and blue, spurs off to an overlook. This worthwhile diversiontakes only a few minutes.

Back at the main trail, continue on, turning right at a seasonalbrook. Go another .4 mile to Marino Pond, a lovely former beaver

pond. The parking area on Wolcott Road is next to the pond.To continue to Buttermilk Falls, continue on, bearing right to walk

along Allentown Road at 3.6 miles. Turn left from the road onto a pri-vate driveway at 4.1 miles. At the driveway fork, turn right into a hem-lock forest. Cross a bridge over a brook, then turn left and follow thetrail along the brook to Buttermilk Falls at 4.6 miles. The NatureConservancy owns the falls. From here, turn right and cross a foot-bridge, descending through a hemlock ravine. Turn left onto LaneHill Road at 4.7 miles. Head downhill to the junction of Lane HillRoad and South Main Street.

Trail description from Jeff O’Donnell and Jan Gatzuras, trail managers forthis section. The map and description are based on those in the ConnecticutWalk Book: West, pages 119-120 and map number MT-1. CFPA publishesthis book, edited by Ann Colson. To buy a copy, see the CFPA Store on page 35.

Try this hikecontinued from page 19

TAKING A LOCAL APPROACH TO GROWING VINES


PROGRAMS

By DOREEN CUBIE

Like a creature in a horror movie, an Asianvine called Oriental bittersweet is swallow-

ing and smothering trees and shrubs acrossConnecticut. Originally imported to this countryin the mid-1800s from China, this exotic is rac-ing out of control as people spread it throughwreath-making and floral arranging and wildlife,especially birds, eat the fruit-bearing seeds.

Throughout the United States and Canada,many other invasive species of vines are chokingout native vegetation and harming wildlife.Some nurseries still sell several of these villains— such as oriental bittersweet, porcelain berry,English ivy and Chinese wisteria--to unsuspect-ing gardeners. Most botanists believe that youcan help keep this ecological nightmare fromgetting any worse by planting only native vinesthis spring and summer. In the process, you willadd eye-catching, flowering plants to your yardthat will help you attract birds, butterflies, bees,moths and even some small mammals.

American bittersweet (Celastrus scandens),also called Climbing bittersweet, is anotherexample of a native that is an ideal choice forus in Connecticut. This native bittersweet

grows to 20 feet or 30 and has decorativeorange-yellow pods, which open in autumn toreveal scarlet seeds,an important food sourcefor songbirds, grouse, quail, and chipmunks;The fruits also dry well, thus make pleasingadditions to wreaths and floral arrangements.

Instead of planting Japanese honeysuckle,which climbs over vegetation and kills shrubsand small trees by cutting out their light, tryone of the North American honeysuckles.

Here in the East, gardeners can plant trum-pet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens),which seldom grows more than 15 feet highand is a good choice for small yards.Hummingbirds and even orioles drink thenectar from its crimson flowers. Catbirds,mockingbirds and thrashers eat its fall fruits.

Another vine that attracts wildlife is Virginiacreeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), anative of the eastern half of the United States.Several species of woodpeckers devour itssmall, blue-black berries. A high climber,Virginia creeper can cover walls or fences,works well growing over a brush pile andmakes an excellent ground cover. The leavesshow off their beautiful red colors during theautumn season.

In making decisions about which species toplant in a yard, a good rule of thumb for gar-deners is to "think locally." For one thing, aplant native to the region will be adapted to itsclimate. Secondly, many vines taken out oftheir natural environment also can become

invasive, even if they are just moved to anoth-er part of the country.

A perennial called pipevine also providesessential nutrition for wildlife; it is the onlyfood plant for the caterpillars of pipevine swal-lowtails, elegant blue-and-black butterfliesfound across much of the United States. Whenplanting a butterfly garden, it is critical to planfor larval food sources, plants which are usedby caterpillars for food. While the butterfliesmay be attracted to a variety of flowers, theyare often more specific about where to lay theireggs as they need to ensure the caterpillarsdon't starve after hatching. A deciduous vinewith heart-shaped leaves and unusual flowersthat look like the bowls of a Dutchman's pipe,the plant was widely grown during theVictorian era. Today, it is becoming popularagain and biologists believe the number ofpipevine swallowtails is increasing as more peo-ple use this fast-growing native to shade orscreen their decks and terraces.

To determine the best natives for your area,check with nearby nurseries that specialize inlocal, native plants. You can often locate thesenurseries by contacting a regional native plantsociety. When searching for a particular vine,don't rely on the common name. It oftenvaries from region to region. Always check theLatin or scientific name, or you might inadver-tently end up planting an invasive variety.(c) National Wildlife Federation. Reprinted andadapted from Spring 2004Habitats with permission.

To learn more about invasive species, nativeplants and plants that attract wildlife such asbirds and butterflies, attend CFPA's program,Gardening with Native Plants, on April 21.See page 27 for details.


Preregistration is requiredfor all programs. Please call860-346-2372.

FOR EDUCATORS &ADULTS

GARDENING WITH NATIVE PLANTS FORWILDLIFESaturday, April 21, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.CFPA, Middlefield

It’s National Wildlife Week! Learn how tocreate and enhance wildlife habitat withinyour own living space, no matter howlarge or small, to attract wildlife. Thisengaging program will present informationabout why yards are important for wildlife,the key components of habitat, basic habi-tat assessment techniques for your yardand the use of native plants in creatinghabitats for wildlife. Information fromProject Greenlawn will be provided and aninteresting discussion will be led by spe-cial guest, Susan Addiss, formerDepartment of Public HealthCommissioner, about the environmentaland health issues associated with lawnchemicals and pesticides. Peter Picone,DEP Wildlife Biologist, will captivate uswith his "Enhancing Wildlife Habitat forSongbirds, Hummingbirds and ButterfliesUsing Native Plants" presentation. We’llbe inspired to create our own naturalspace after our visit to a local NationalWildlife Federation certified BackyardWildlife HabitatTM yard. Fee is $20/non-members; $15 members. Light refresh-ments provided.

WALKCONNECTICUT’S FAMILY GUIDEDHIKESVolunteer TrainingSaturday, May 5, 9 a.m. – noonWaterbury Area TrailsShare your enthusiasm for the outdoorswith others! We are offering a trainingprogram for adults interested in connect-ing children and their families to the nat-ural wonders of our world. Become atrained Family Hike Leader and shareyour enjoyment of the trails and the out-doors. May’s hands-on training will beour adventure as we hike along one ofthe Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails. FamilyHike Leaders enjoy flexible schedulesand are encouraged to lead just a fewhikes a year. These hikes are part ofConnecticut Forest & Park Assocation’sWalkConnecticut inititiative, an adven-ture in fostering lifelong health and con-nection to the land through a network ofoutdoor trails and programs. JoinWalkConnecticut: the trail to health andhappiness.

A NATURAL PATH TO SUMMER CAMPTRAINING PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPWednesday, May 30/9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.In this fun and lively hands-on workshop,youth group leaders can:� Receive help in planning nature pro-grams relevant to group’s own site;� Learn age-appropriate, environmentalactivities geared towards forests, nature,

energy and more and their connection toour everyday lives;� Become part of a network that offersfollow-up resources and opportunities;� Acquire background information andmaterials about environmental educa-tion; and� Involve young people in the naturalworld them.Participants will receive the Project

Learning Tree Environmental EducationActivity Guide, Greenworks! Guide(Connecting Community Action andService Learning). CEU’s offered.$35.00/participant. Funding, includingreimbursement for substitute teachers, isavailable from the Project LearningTree/Environmental Education Trainingand Partnership Initiative.

FOR STUDENTS

FOREST FORENSICSThursday, June 7, 2007; 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.(rain date June 8)Connecticut Forest & Park Association,MiddlefieldMiddle school students can attend ahands-on event filled with discoveriesabout trees and Connecticut’s forests.Learning stations guided by wildlife biol-ogists, entomologists and foresters willhelp students solve a “crime” by usingtheir critical-thinking skills. They’ll makepredictions, investigate clues and collectevidence. Topics include invasivespecies, trees as microhabitats, land-useplanning and species identification.

State Offers Kids’ “Great Park Pursuit”The Department of Environmental Protection announces its second Great Park Pursuit adventure, a program developed as part

of the No Child Left Inside initiative. Each of Connecticut’s state parks and forests is home to a different kind of fun. Come dis-cover which one matches your interest. Let us help you connect with your passion or satisfy your curiosity about the great outdoors.

Sign-up on-line, get a clue to your next destination and then join us for a day of family fun – you might even win a prize! Theprogram will run for six weeks from May 19-June 23. Registration is limited. Check out www.NoChildLeftInside.org for more infor-mation or call Diane Joy, the state DEP’s “No Child Left Inside” coordinator, at 203-734-2513.

PROGRAMS


Forest Forensics is a partnership pro-gram created by CFPA with theDepartment of Environmental Protection.To schedule this program for your middleschool grade, please call the EducationCoordinator at 860-346-2372.

FOR FAMILIES

FAMILY GUIDED HIKESCome along on guided hikes the lastweekend of every month, as we ramblethrough the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails,city and state parks and forests. Bringthe family to develop a sense of wonder,engage the senses and delight the soul.Guided hikes are part of CFPA’sWalkConnecticut: the trails to healthand happiness. For more Family GuidedHikes, including hikes in May and June,please visit www.ctwoodlands.org orcall CFPA at 860-346-2372.

APRIL

Saturday, 4/28 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. HurdState Park, East HamptonLava flows in Connecticut? Visit the sitewere 200 million years ago lava floodedthe region of central Connecticut. We’llhike where the magma froze in the fis-sure, or crack in the earth’s surface.Bring snack, water and dress in layerswearing sturdy shoes. There is roughfooting in some sections of this 3-milehike. Ages 8+

Saturday, 4/28, Field Forest, Durham9:00 – 10:15 a.m. for ages 6 and under;10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. for ages 7+(Rain Date: Sunday, 4/29, 11:00 a.m. forages 6 and under; 12:30 p.m. for ages 7 +)Look for signs of spring in the wonderfulField Forest. On the 9:00 a.m. hike youngchildren and their parents will hike to abridge to play “Billy Goats Gruff” andstop often to examine the plants, rocks,fungus, etc. On the 10:30 a.m. hike wewill enjoy a longer walk and hike some ofthe bigger hills in this forest and find thefoundation of an old cabin. We’ll listen

for the peeps of spring peepers and per-haps find some frog eggs. Please bringsnacks, water and dress in layers for theweather including study shoes.

SCHOOL VACATION PROGRAMSWanted: Frogwatchers!Wednesday, April 18/ 10:00a.m.-12 NoonCFPA Headquarters, MiddlefieldHelp scientists conserve frogs andtoads. Learn observation skills, “frog-ging” protocol, data collection, internetmonitoring and natural history ofConnecticut’s frogs and toads.Frogwatch USATM is a frog and toad mon-itoring program managed by NationalWildlife Federation in partnership withthe U.S. Geological Survey. Rubberboots and outdoor clothing recommend-ed. Squish! Appropriate for ages sevenand older; children must be accompa-nied by an adult. Members: $5.00/child;Nonmembers: $8.00/child

Connecticut Trails DaySaturday, June 3Interested in letterboxing? Orienteering?Bridge building? Plant or tree i.d.? Wantto get involved in a park clean-up? Ortour a town's historic district? Or moun-tain bike with some experts? Visit alocal land trust property? ConnecticutTrails Day offers you all those opportuni-ties and more. Attending a Trails Dayevent is the best way to learn aboutplaces you've never been to, meet newpeople and learn new skills. It's free, it’sfun and there is at least one event in thestate that is well within your abilities –whether you are wheelchair bound,unsure of hiking or prefer a leisurelystroll. Look for a Connecticut Trails Daybrochure in your local library or sportsstore - anywhere active people congre-gate. If you can't find one, call theConnecticut Forest & Park Association at860-346-2372 and we will pop one in themail to you. Get outside and enjoy ourbeautiful state!

GREAT AMERICAN BACKYARDCAMPOUTSaturday, June 23, 2007Your BackyardRemember when life was simple?You didn’t rely on TV and electronicgadgets for entertainment. Catching fire-flies kept you busy for hours. And camp-ing out in the yard with friends, just ablanket for a tent, was real fun. Now youcan re-live that fun with your kids andgrandkids. Join in National WildlifeFederation’s second annual GreatAmerican Backyard Campout. Last yearthousands of neighbors, friends and fam-ilies united across the country fors’mores, stargazing and nature-watch-ing. It’s easy! Take part right in yourbackyard or at your favorite campingspot. Sign up now and get outdoorsagain! Visit www.nwf.org/campout toregister your site and get recipes, activi-ties, wildlife guides and more. As thestate affiliate of NWF, Connecticut Forest& Park Association encourages this funoutdoor program.

FOR SCOUTS

Bring your troop or den to these fun andhands-on workshops; activities help earnthe following badges or pins. Programscan also be scheduled per your sched-ule/calendar. Pre-registration required;$5/scout. The following workshops willbe held at the Connecticut Forest & ParkAssociation in Middlefield.

JUNIOR GIRL SCOUTSFinding Your Way,Thursday, April 12, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

CUB SCOUTSNaturalistTuesday, May 22, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

BROWNIE SCOUTSEco-ExplorerSaturday, June 10, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

PROGRAMS


CFPA Buys 13AcresAroundNipmuckTrail inEastford

Using $45,000 from the HibbardTrust for Land & Trails, the Associationhas added 13 acres to its land holdings inEastford. The Association purchased aproperty that directly abuts the landgiven to it by Roger Clemence. The newproperty provides access to AshfordRoad and also hosts a portion of theNipmuck Trail.

“This purchase shows the value of theHibbard Trust,” said Mr. Moore.“Thanks to all who have donated, andcontinue to donate, to the HibbardTrust, we were able to act nimbly andbuy this piece when it became available.”The addition of these 13 acres will enablethe Association to better manage the for-merly landlocked Clemence Tract andwill also protect a portion of the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trail System.

Sayres FamilyGrantsConservationRestriction

The Connecticut Forest & ParkAssociation has received a conservationrestriction over the land of Starr and PhilSayres in East Haddam, Connecticut. Justover 72 acres in size, the Sayres propertyincludes several acres of sloping meadowwith outstanding views across theConnecticut River Valley, stands of hard-wood forest, wetlands, and a stream. Mr.and Mrs. Sayres purchased the land in1975, built their house, and have tendedthe land as thoughtful stewards ever since.

CFPA Executive Director Adam R.Moore said the Sayres are true conserva-tion philanthropists, exemplifying thevirtues of good stewardship. He hopesthat others contemplating conservationwill be inspired by their example.

The Sayres property was once an appleorchard. A few of the apple trees still bearfruit, and certain others have been left assnags – standing dead trees – whose

curving, weathered limbs provide perch-es for hawks and other birds. The Sayresfamily has maintained much of the landas a meadow. The meadow is mowedonce annually, in the autumn, so thatground nesting birds are provided withhabitat and not disrupted during breed-ing. “This is exactly the type of habitat,and the type of habitat stewardship, thatis rare in Connecticut,” said Mr. Moore.

Mrs. Sayres is the Association’sDevelopment Coordinator and is also alife member of the Association.

Mignone JoinsBoard

CFPA elected Karen Mignone to itsBoard of Directors on November 15.She is an environmental lawyer with Pepe& Hazard and works out of the firm’sSouthport office. Ms. Mignone holds anA.B. from Brown University and a J.D.from Pace University School of Law.

CFPAWill Stage Two-Man Play on Gifford Pinchot and John MuirCFPA is creating a staged dramatic reading that

brings together two giants of the American conser-vation movement, Gifford Pinchot and John Muir,in a unique presentation for Connecticut audi-ences. A benefit performance will be held at theBushnell Center for the Performing Arts onNovember 9, 2007, to raise funds for theAssociation.

As the drama of the relationship between thesetwo men unfolds, it reveals the impassioned philo-sophical rivalry that has dominated American envi-ronmental discourse for the past 100 years.Stephen Most of Berkeley, CA, co-writer of theacclaimed documentary, “The Greatest Good,” hasbeen chosen as playwright for the project. The per-formance is made possible in part by a grant fromthe Connecticut Humanities Council and by a gen-

erous donation from Astrid and Fred Hanzalek.The staging of a play is not without precedent in

CFPA’s history. In 1924, Association members andfriends performed a pageant in the Peoples Forestcalled “The Forest of Refuge.” It featured wood-land characters, dancing trees and spirits, and theresolve to build a forest for future generations. Theplay will be made available to schools, museums,historic sites, and other public venues, and a studyguide will be provided. CFPA views the project asan opportunity to open public discussion about thedifferent environmental ideologies that have dom-inated American discourse for more than 100 years.

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Education GrantAids CFPATeachers’Workshops

Project Learning Tree, through its Environmental Educationand Training Partnership, has awarded CFPA $1,565.00 for itsprofessional development workshops for educators. The fundingis part of a larger initiative to expand environmental educationtraining and to give long-term support to professionals acrossNorth America.

The Association will use the funds to offer three ProjectLearning Tree workshops in 2007: “Places We Live,” “ForestForensics,” and “A Natural Path to Summer Camp Training.”The workshops were developed with the support of the UnitedStates Environmental Protection Agency and the University ofWisconsin-Stevens Point under a special agreement

CFPA SeeksThree NewStaffers

The Association has launched searches for a full-time directorof development, a part-time land conservation coordinator, anda part-time coordinator of the WalkConnecticut program.

Country School in MadisonReceives Grant from ProjectLearningTree

Project Learning Tree, the environmental education programof the American Forest Foundation, has awarded one of 32GreenWorks! grants to the Country School in Madison. Thenational GreenWorks program aids schools with community-based environmental projects.

The Country School’s art teacher, who took a PLT workshopat CFPA last year, has received a small grant for the program,“Paper: From Collecting to Recycling.” Fifth grade students willcollect discarded paper and make it into useable paper. The stu-dents will share their accomplishments with fourth-graders.

To be eligible for a Greenworks! grant, educators must betrained in Project Learning Tree methods. For informationabout workshops, see www.plt.org.

Terri Peters

Meet Robert Pagini, whose striking landscape photographsare the covers of both volumes of the Connecticut Walk Book.Mr. Pagini also took the photograph on the cover of the lastConnecticut Woodlands. With him is his wife, Marcie.

Lori Paradis Brant

On January 10, CFPA Administrative Coordinator TerriPeters, left, packed 528 copies of the new Connecticut WalkBook: West into 44 boxes. The United Parcel Service drivergets ready to cart the 1,100-pound shipment out of theMiddlefield building.


NEWS OFTHE CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION

WELCOME NEW MEMBERSWe extend a hearty welcome to a near record number of new members this quarter. Thank you forjoining and thank you for supporting the oldest conservation organization in Connecticut. We suc-ceed because of you. And we welcome your voice alongside ours in sounding the call for the conser-vation of Connecticut’s land and natural resources.Includes new members from November 1, 2006 through January 15, 2007


Matthew E. Allardice andFamilyKatherine Allocco andGloster AaronLars AnderssonScott and Amanda AronsonVirginia BerrienTim BishopBenjamin BlakeBruce BlakeStephen P. BrokerSally BrunnerKenneth W. Coffee, Jr.William ColemanRichard D. CooleyHenry F. CurtisWilliam L. DetlefsenArlene DobsonKatherine DriscollRobert DurrDiane and Paul DuvaNed and Renee EllisPeter M. EtzelMr. and Mrs. Brad GentryMichael GrieneisenJohn M. GrockiJean B. HaskellThomas J. HeisslerTimothy HenleyDavid HobsonRichard IbsenLeslie Kane, Town ofGuilfordKevin Driscoll and VernaKarstenDavid B. KoziyKaren Krohn and JohnPendergastHarry KushpinskyLaura LabieniecWilliam Laporte-BryanBruce LarocheNancy J. Larsen

Seth LowPaul W. MahoneyFrank B. MannBarry Joel MattChristine MelsonSusan Mentser and FamilyStephen MercerAudrey and Greg MeredithDavid and Geri MihalekRon NaylorTerrance O’NeillCurtis G. RandBarry L. ResnickMr. and Mrs. Paul RissoChristina RobergeJoan and Bill SchwarzRebecca SkinnerPeary StaffordJames TarnowiczBaldwin TerryMr. and Mrs. Paul ValvoDavid R. VanceRobert WollenbergRobert Zdankiewicz

Special welcome andthank you to newand renewing mem-bers in the followingcategories

Life Member$2,500Christine Woodside

Benefactor $250

Ann W. BellTim Bishop*Barbara O. DavidThomas andDeborah DownieDanusia Dzierzbinski

Mr. and Mrs. ReynoldsGirdler, Jr.Timothy C. HawleyMarta Jo LawrenceJohn E. MorrisConstance A. RokickiLiane M. Stevens

Supporting $100

Judith AppelbaumJean S. BamforthSusan J. BeachL. Lynn BeelerMr. and Mrs.J. Peter Bergan,Peaceful Hill Tree FarmEleanor J. BielakRobert and Carol Bingham*Dora S. BlinnHugh P. BroughelNancy H. BullWalter W. Butler, Jr.Reed and Christine CassStephen J. ClarkLedge ClaytonMr. and Mrs.B. John Cox, Jr.Renee DeSalvatoreJake DeSantisThomas and DeborahDownieDavid DunnMr. and Mrs.Anthony T. EndersJackson F. and Carol B.Stevens Eno*Penny and Ralph EnoPeter Good andJan Cummings,Cummings & GoodAndre and ChristineGrandboisEllsworth S. GrantMr. and Mrs. Paul Gworek

Mr. and Mrs.Gerald C. HardyMichael J. HellerLaura Hesslein, LCSWAimee L. Hoben andMichael RyanArthur L. Hollings, Jr.George H. Jackson, Jr.Matthew KononVal and Phil LeMontagneMr. and Mrs. Charles B.MillikenScott and Carol MitchellFrederick W. MorrisonMr. and Mrs. Joseph A.NeafseyRichard and Ann NevelosTom and Carol ODellMr. and Mrs. James W.PeckhamMr. and Mrs. David PlattMr. and Mrs. Raymond P.RadikasFrederick C. RottjerBrian D. SavageauGerald W. SazamaDuncan SchweitzerMr. and Mrs. BarrySetterstromMr. and Mrs. Donald H.Smith, Jr.Gordon C. Streeter, IIArthur W. Sweeton, IIIHugo F. ThomasB. Holt ThrasherRussell A. WaldieJeffrey S. WardDavid WhitehouseFrederick O. WilhelmA. Kirkwood YoungEdmond S. ZaglioRonald A. Zlotoff, M.D.*

OrganizationsSustaining $100

Connecticut ValleyMycological SocietyThe Hotchkiss School, JimMorrillTarrywile ParkThe York Hill Trap RockQuarry Co., Inc.

Nonprofit $75

Appalachian MountainClub, Connecticut ChapterBird ConservationResearch, Inc.Frances Loeb LibraryGirl Scouts ConnecticutTrails CouncilGreenwich Department ofParks and RecreationHartford Public LibraryHighstead ArboretumKillingworth ConservationCommissionSouthern ConnecticutState UniversityStamford Museum &Nature CenterTown of Farmington,Jeff OllendorfWest Rock Ridge ParkAssociation

Club $50

Housatonic ValleyChapter F.F.A.North Haven Garden ClubProspect Land TrustThompson LandscapeImprovement, Inc.

*Denotes new members

DEVELOPMENT NEWS



DONATIONSIn the lists below, we recognize individuals, businesses, organizations and government agencies thathave, though their generosity and volunteer help, voiced support for the conservation of Connecticut'snatural landscape. We hope you will take satisfaction, as you read this and forthcoming issues ofConnecticut Woodlands, in the work that is being done to keep your agenda before the people ofConnecticut. We thank you!

THE ANNUAL FUNDWith two months remaining in the campaign as this issue went to press, the 2006 Annual Fund wasnearing its $90,000 goal. We extend our gratitude to you for your part in this CFPA success story.

Founders’ Circle$5,000 and upMr. and Mrs. George M. CampLoureiro EngineeringAssociates, Inc., Jeff LoureiroJames H. Shattuck CharitableTrust

1895 Society$1,895 to $4,999Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell M.Belding

CentennialSociety$1,000 to $1,894Arnhold Foundation,Michele ArnholdClyde S. Brooks in memory ofRuth B. BrooksThe Community Foundationof Northwest ConnecticutMr. and Mrs.Paul M. ConnollyElinor W. EllsworthGrace W. EllsworthMr. and Mrs. Daniel D.Hubbard, Harriet FordDickenson FoundationRay and Sandi KalinowskiEric Lukingbeal andSally S. KingMr. and Mrs.Geoffrey L. MeissnerPfizer Foundation VolunteerProgram, David DeanMr. and Mrs.Richard D. WagnerRichard A. Whitehouse

Charter Circle$500 to $999Mr. and Mrs.Starling W. ChildsBarbara O. DavidMr. and Mrs.Matthew J. DavisMrs. Reynolds GirdlerEvan Griswold andEmily FisherAstrid and Fred HanzalekMr. and Mrs. John E. HibbardMr. and Mrs. Terry H. JonesPhilip G. KeatingDavid A. LeesMr. and Mrs. David PlattFrances D. PuddicombeEdward and MarionRichardsonLiane M. Stevens

Foresters’ Circle$250 to $499Mark S. AshtonLois Barlow-CoxMr. and Mrs.Richard A. BauerfeldAnn Wilhelm andWilliam R. BentleyFrederick P. ClarkLinda and John CunninghamRuth B. CutlerMarybeth DeanDaniel F. Donahue, Jr.Mr. and Mrs.Chasper E. FischbacherRussell J. HandelmanSusan P. KirkMarta Jo Lawrence

Mr. and Mrs. James W. LittleDeborah Livingston,Shenipsit StridersLawrence LundenMr. and Mrs. Scot MackinnonRalph G. MannMr. and Mrs.Andrew D. MeigsRandall Miller andFelicia TenczaAnonymousDr. and Mrs. John C. NulsenSusan OlmsteadDouglas H. RobinsMr. and Mrs. James RusselEleanor SaulysMr. and Mrs.David T. SchreiberDavid M. SmithMr. and Mrs.Donald H. Smith, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. SnookMr. and Mrs.Thomas A. SteitzEric R. StonesMr. and Mrs. David L. SullivanWinnie Suraci,New Haven Hiking ClubHenry H. Townshend, Jr.Mr. and Mrs.Alden Y. Warner, Jr.AnonymousJ. Stanley WatsonWendy M. WeaverMr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Welsh

Patron$100 to $249Dr. John F. Anderson

Mr. and Mrs. AlphonseAvitabileHarrol W. Baker, Jr.Robert C. BaldwinJill and David BarrettRobert N. BeaverstockJohn A. BermanElizabeth B. BordenSusan Branson,Steep Rock AssociationDonald B. Brant, Jr.Dr. William D. BreckRussell L. BrennemanMr. and Mrs. George BrierleyKimberly ChagnonMr. and Mrs. John ChapmanMr. and Mrs. Ralph Chase, Jr.Mr. and Mrs.Merrell E. Clark, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Charles CollimoreMr. and Mrs. Mark E. ConnorsMr. and Mrs. B. John Cox, Jr.Ann M. CuddyMr. and Mrs. Peter M. CurryJames J. DiPisaSamuel G. DoddMarya R. DoeryCaroline K. DriscollDanusia DzierzbinskiWilliam EllisMr. and Mrs. Todd H. GelstonJoseph J. Gilbertand Nancy E. FolliniTheodore GiulianoEugene M. GraysonMr. and Mrs. Paul GworekCarol HassettScott Holmes

Mr. and Mrs. Michael D.JohnsonMr. and Mrs. David JordanDavid and Marcia KalayjianKatherine Kaneand Dennis DePaulJoseph F. Kelleher, Jr.Mark C. KileyS. Lee Laplante, M.D.Michael D. Leahy, M.D.David K. LeffKC Delfinoand Marshall J. LevinsonDavid C. McClaryMr. and Mrs.William J. McCulloughDouglas H. McKainand Ruth PenfieldJames Scott McWilliamMr. and Mrs.William C. MedberyPaul H. MillerAdam and Melissa MooreMr. and Mrs.Robert E. MooreMrs. Grayson M. MurphyMr. and Mrs.Joseph A. NeafseyMark D. OgonekMr. and Mrs. John OlsenThomas J. O’SullivanMr. and Mrs. Stephen C.ParsonsJoseph J. Pignatello andElizabeth StewartMr. and Mrs. David PrestonEdwin J. PriorMr. and Mrs.Raymond P. RadikasMr. and Mrs. Richard A. Reeve

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Douglas M. ReidMichael C. RiceJames and Theresa RitchieJohn Ritchie, Jr.Lucille RottjerStarr and Philip SayresMr. and Mrs. Lee P. SchacterMr. and Mrs. John H.SeashoreJohn S. SerraJohn W. SheaMr. and Mrs. Donald L.SnookJiff Martin andMichael SoaresLeavenworth P. Sperry, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. James G. SpethGeorge R. StephensKeith R. StetsonWilliam W. StowePeter C. SullivanArthur W. Sweeton, IIIMr. and Mrs. Robert W. TaberColin C. TaitMr. and Mrs. Brian R. TaylorB. Holt ThrasherMr. and Mrs.Harry O. TobiassenFrancis M. Trafidlo, Jr.Hazel F. TuttleJeffrey S. WardMr. and Mrs.Thomas A. WeidmanFrederick O. WilhelmKatherine andCarlton WinslowSteve E. Wright, NationalWildlife FederationCarol E. Youell

SponsorUp to $100Justus AddissWinifred BalboniLynn BarkerJon BauerChristopher BeaucheminDavid A. BeldenJohn and Janice BendaDr. and Mrs.Howard Benditsky

Dean Birdsall, Jr.David W. BooneSuzanne M. BoorMr. and Mrs.George N. Bowers, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. WayneBoyingtonBarbara Brockhurst andRobert LavoieMr. and Mrs.Stephen H. BroderickS. Pearce Browning, III,M.D., P.C.Robert J. Buchanan, M.D.Daniel J. CamilleriEunice W. CardenMarcia A. Caseyin honor of Dan CaseyCoryn B. ClarkElizabeth Gibbsand William CollinsCT DEP Waste Engineering& Enforcement DivisionClare D. ConoverDavid A. CorsiniMr. and Mrs. Hugh L. CoxDavid L. CullenMr. and Mrs. Russell DavidsonAnne B. DavisHelen Marie DeardenPeter DeckerThomas J. Degnan, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Chris DemersLaurence andMabel DiamondMartin DinepMr. and Mrs.Edward J. DodgeDiane DuvaTimothy E. EllsworthHoward B. Field, IVJuana Maria G. FlaggWilliam D. FoyeGarden Club of MadisonMelanie P. GiameiAlison GilchristEmery GluckCynthia F. GrinnellSusan GudaitisDale O. HackettChuck and Sally HaddadMarshall Hamilton

Muriel E. HansenMr. and Mrs.Gerald C. HardyMr. and Mrs. Myron P. HardyTracy W. Heavens, Jr.Mr. and Mrs.Fritz F. HeimannPeter HerrmannMr. and Mrs.Arvid HerzenbergJennifer G. HillhouseJames C. HirschyHamilton HoltDavid S. IrvinVictor J. JarmSusanne Javorskiand Bruce MacLeodPaula M. Jonesand Kevin GoughBeryl A. KammererWilliam L. KennyMr. and Mrs. Lee KuckroPeter W. Kunkel, Forger-Kunkel Plumbing & HeatingCharles L. Larkin, IIISandra A. LeeEverett L. ListerMr. and Mrs. George A. LoosGreg W. LovelandMrs. Jerome H. LowengardMr. and Mrs.Lewis N. LukensMr. and Mrs.Thomas S. MarrionIrene MaturoDiane Kaplan andStephen J. MayerPhyllis M. McDowellCraig R. McGarrahMolly McKayElaine McMahonMr. and Mrs. Paul McMastersand FamilyMr. and Mrs.Richard D. MellenEleanore MilardoMr. and Mrs. Harvey MogerThomas R. MongilloPhilip A. MoodyMr. and Mrs.James W. NelsonMary E. Nevius

Patricia A. NieceBernard NoonanWilliam B. NovoaCornelius O’LearyNorma PaggioliEdward ParadisEthel F. PattersonMr. and Mrs. John Payne, IIIPaul R. PearsonHarry and Louise PerrineMr. and Mrs. Karl R. PflugerJeffrey PhelonNancy C. PhillipsCassy D. Pollak PickardElliott B. PollackSusan M. PurdyAnn and Anis RacyMr. and Mrs.Robert T. RaneyGeorge H. RawitscherMarie B. ReidMillicent Reid-LoomisCristin Gallup RichMr. and Mrs. Donald RiegerMartha H. RisingMr. and Mrs. David G. RogerMrs. Paul D. RosahnZellene SandlerMrs. Jean T. SargentHenry E. SauerMichael Aurelia and DeniseSavageau, GreenwichConservation CommissionMr. and Mrs.Frederick W. Sawyer, IIIMr. and Mrs.Gerhard Schade, Jr.Agnes M. SchaschlRobert M. SchoffMike SchumannJohn B. SebastianMr. and Mrs. Arland SelnerMr. and Mrs. BarrySetterstromNorman D. SillsRichard J. SkinnerWesley SkorskiSandy Elson Slemmerand FamilyDr. Richard E. SlimakRobert H. Smith, Jr.

Betsy B. StilesWarren A. StoneKristine A. StuartJackson P. SumnerEric Corbin Sweeneyand FamilyJohn P. TracyThomas G. TraverBetty S. TylaskaC. Ben Tyson, Jr.Mr. and Mrs.Douglas J. Van DykeJoseph R. Vasselli and FamilyThomas A. WalbArthur L. Waldman, M.D.A. L. “Pat” Wasserman, Jr.Helen G. WatermanFaith Ann Weidner, M.D.Westfield ResidentsAssociationJoseph P. Wierzbinski, M.D.Colin F. Wilson and Family

The HibbardTrust forLand & Trails

The Hibbard Trustsupports theAssociation’s topmostpriority – conservingthe land and trails ofConnecticut. Weextend our thanks tothose who recognize itsimportance and whohave made generousdonations.

Ann and Jon ColsonMr. and Mrs.Paul M. ConnollyDavid L. CullenMr. and Mrs.William Drinkuth



OtherDonationsAnonymousMary E. AugustinyMr. and Mrs. John T. BailyDr. David A. J. BelmanKimberly ChagnonConnecticut CommunityFoundation,Robert L. deCourcyMr. and Mrs.Paul M. ConnollyMichael CunninghamDonald J. De BellaRobert D. DeptulaThomas andDeborah DownieDr. and Mrs.David M. DresslerAlfred DudekEarth ShareFrank Stephen ErricoKaren Greer andEdward EylerDr. Christopher FickeNeil FitzgeraldJohn C. FolsomWilliam D. FoyeFrances L. FunkGarden Club of MadisonEllsworth S. GrantPhilip F. HartmanMaria KorzeniowskiSamuel L. LangleyEric Lukingbeal andSally S. KingDiana MahoneyMr. and Mrs.Andrew W. MasonAudrey and Greg MeredithDwight F. Miller, M.D.Elizabeth J. MorganMr. and Mrs.Joseph A. NeafseyJames OwensAnthony ParfenovEdwin J. PriorViolette S. RadomskiCurtis G. RandLaura Rozek

David D. SamGail A. SangreeAllyn Seymour, Jr.Warren A. StoneDavid C. SullivanEdward C. SypherMarlene S. ToobinFrancis M. Trafidlo, Jr.Thomas G. TraverDavid TroyUnited Wayof the Capital AreaAnonymousHelen G. WatermanDavid WhitehouseDana P. WhitneyNorma E. WilliamsPhillip and Marilyn WilseyDona Z. WohlertAnne K. Zopfi andEmery Stephens

Memorial GiftsGifts in memory ofR. Dennis Cutler, Jr.The Trust Company ofConnecticut

Gifts in memory ofJ. Stanley WatsonGordon andSharon AndersonPamela A. BatemanWilliam R. BentleyJeffrey O. BorneKim BoydDeborah A. Brennan andAndrew P. RappMarsha BuckleyRosemary M. CastroPatrick J. CoffeyGerald A. DaigleJoyce FarrellMelanie P. GiameiAlison C. GuinnessThe Hartford, Jack E.FergusonJay G. KeiserMr. and Mrs.Ronald P. KlattenbergAdam and Melissa Moore

Karen NolanCathy PillsburyDawn D. QuintPamela J. QuintMargaret H. RichEdward A. RichardsonBrenda SchoenFrederick A. StoneCindy StulpinChristopher C. SwanDeborah R. ThorpeMr. and Mrs.Conrad TyaackRichard A. WhitehouseMarge Zajac

Matching GiftsAetna FoundationAmeriprise FinancialPfizer FoundationMatching Gifts ProgramPfizer FoundationVolunteer ProgramPitney BowesMBI, Inc.The Stanley WorksSurvey SamplingUnileverUnited Technologies

Donations ofGifts andServices in KindRobert and Lois Merriamfor Christmas wreathsQuarryside Downtown,Portland, for donations ofoffice furniture and equip-mentRichard A. Whitehouse forhis generous contribution oftime and expertise in main-taining CFPA’s website

Foundations,Corporations,andGovernmentGrants andSponsorshipsAmerican ForestFoundationAmerican SavingsFoundationThe ConnecticutWater Company

VolunteersFor their invaluablehelp in the office and inshipping the Walk BookWestMaureen FarmerNancy FoxMaggie PetersonRalph RielloPaula Rose Sandler

CFPA SpringWish ListThe following issues ofConnecticut Woodlandsfrom the year 2000 areneeded for binding aspermanent records in theCFPA Library. Please callTerri at (860) 346-2372 ifyou have either of theseback issues: Vol. 65 #3and Vol. 65 #4

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AN INVITATIONMost of us would like to believe wecan in some way leave the world abetter place. If you cherish Connecti-cut’s wild and natural landscape, youmay wish to consider this invitation tomake a lasting contribution to theConnecticut Forest & Park Associa-tion in the form of a planned gift.Gifts may be tailored to meet yourparticular financial requirements andphilanthropic priorities. There can besignificant tax advantages to you andto your heirs. You will become a her-alded member of The HeritageSociety.

We can help you explore theoptions. Here are some ways in whichyou can secure the future of CFPA forgenerations to come, and the land welove forever.�Name CFPA in your will.�Make CFPA the beneficiary of yourretirement plan or insurance policy.�Establish a charitable remaindertrust and receive income for life whilepassing assets to CFPA.

�Establish a charitable lead trust pro-viding income to CFPA while maxi-mizing assets for your heirs.� Make the gift of a conservationeasement or an outright gift of acreageworthy of conservation to CFPA.

If we may help you in your deci-sion-making process, please feel free tocall Starr Sayres, DevelopmentCoordin-ator at (860) 346-2372.

The Heritage Society

John R. Camp*Ruth CutlerGrace W. EllsworthEdward and MarionRichardsonJames L. Shattuck*Katherine M. StevensonLeon W. Zimmerman*

*deceased

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Trail GearCFPA LogoHatsTwo-toned low-profile 100% cottonbaseball cap with KHAKI CROWN,FOREST GREEN BILL, embroideredlogo. Adjustable strap. (Hat not exact-ly as pictured here).$15.00 (plus $2.00 shipping)

Limited EditionReproductionCommemorativeMapsQuinnipiac Trail (1931)$3.25 (plus tax and $4.00 shipping)

Original AppalachianTrail (1934) $3.75(plus tax and $4.00 shipping)

Books, etcetera

A Shared Landscape,A Guide & History ofConnecticut’s State Parks andForests, by Joseph Leary, pub-lished by Friends of ConnecticutState Parks, Inc. in 2004. Richlyillustrated in four-color withmaps and photographs, this240-page guide offers anintimate look at Connecticut’spublic lands and tells youeverything you need to knowabout where to go if you love tohike, bike, camp, fish, swim,hunt, watch birds, learn aboutecology or cross-country ski.$25.00 (plus tax and $5.00 shipping)

JUST RELEASED!The ConnecticutWalk Book,WESTThis completely updated book, alongwith the Connecticut Walk Book, East,provide a comprehensive guide to hik-ing throughout the state. Published bythe Connecticut Forest & ParkAssociation, the two volumes are the19th edition of the guidebook firstreleased more than 75 years ago. Bothvolumes include the Metacomet andMattabesett Trails of CentralConnecticut. Both volumes includedetailed two-color topographic mapsthat are crisp, clear, and easy to read.Complete trail descriptions accompanythe maps.

Each volume$19.95 members(plus taxand$5 shipping)

Each volume$24.95 non-members(plus taxand$5shipping)Forest Trees of

Southern NewEngland, a 56-pagepaperback publication of theConnecticut Forest and ParkAssociation. This manual is asimple description in accu-rate and nontechnical termsof the forest trees common insouthern New England. It isintended for the general pub-lic to meet a pressingdemand for a pocket manualwhich is easy to use andunderstand.$2.00 (plus tax and $1.50 shipping)

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Connecticut Woodlands,A Century’s Story of the Connecticut Forest & ParkAssociation, by George McLeanMilne, publishedby the Connecticut Forest and Park Association in1995. A fascinating history, not so much of theConnecticut Forest and Park Association as it is ofthe dedicated men and women who have caredabout Connecticut’s forests and fields, hills, valleys,and parklands. Scattered through these pages areinspiring accounts of courageous struggles to pro-tect the rich and varied natural environment of thestate.$25.00 (plus tax and $5.00 shipping)

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The Homeowner'sGuide to EnergyIndependence,by Christine Woodside.Lyons Press, 2006. A bookfor ordinary Americans whowant to move away fromfossil fuels. Learn about themost viable and affordablealternatives such as solarpanels, wood, hydroelectric,hybrid cars, and more.$14.95 (plus tax and $5.00 shipping)

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ContestWinner

This photo of theGroton waterfront bystudent Lisa Bitzer,"Sunset at AveryPoint," won first placein the recentEnvironmentalExpressions contestheld at the Universityof Connecticut.

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