By: Kaitlyn Connors The Hidden Cost: “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” 一 Robert Swan Every year, the average American throws away more than 1,500 pounds of…
Trails Day 2026: June 6th and 7th Each year, Connecticut Trails Day—part of the National Trails Day celebration—invites people across the state to explore the natural beauty of our local trails and open spaces. Organized by…
Join our friends from The Rockfall Foundation, and Swamp Yankee Earthcare on Saturday, May 16th at 9:30 am for an educational invasive plants workshop! Learn how to identify and remove invasive species such as multiflora rose, barberry, bittersweet, mugwort,…
By: Jeff Dickey-Chasins If it’s winter in Connecticut, it is likely that you will experience snow. However, how muchsnow, when, and for how long has changed over the past 300 years – and climate change is…
Following the completion of the dam removal and restoration of Sawmill Brook, the Middlesex Land Trust is exploring ways to make Highland Pond Preserve more welcoming and accessible. We want your input. Whether you personally experience accessibility barriers or simply care about conservation and inclusion in our community, your perspective will help inform our next steps.
Beaver Pond at Rattlesnake Brook. By: Catie Resor Last September, we held the Middlesex Land Trust annual meeting. We hosted a speaker, Dr. Tracy Rittenhouse from the University of Connecticut, who studies large carnivores in the…
View looking south over the pond in 2021. Note the heavy aquatic vegetation. (Biohabitats) By: Stuart Winquist Our primary focus for the Highland Pond dam removal was for restoration of freshwater habitat for diadromous (migratory) fish…
Jeff Dickey-Chasins If you’ve ever spent an hour in the Connecticut woods, you’ve probably heard the knocking of a woodpecker’s beak against a tree trunk. There are seven species of woodpeckers that frequent our forests, parks,…
By Catie ResorBoard Member, Middlesex Land Trust Webs on a fall morning (swamp) You’ve probably had the experience of walking along a trail in the fall and finding a little wooly bear caterpillar trundling along underfoot.…
By Ralph UrbanPresident, Middlesex Land Trust The 2024 Annual Report of the Connecticut Council on Environmental Quality, issued last April, describes a mixture of successes and inadequacies in summing up the state of the environment in…