Past Events

Eightmile RiverFest 2021

Date: Sat October 16, 2021
Time: 1- 4pm
Place: Devil's Hopyard State Park--Pavilion Area
Contact Email: pyoung@eightmileriver.org
Presenter: Eightmile River Wild & Scenic Coordinating Committee
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Please join us for this free family-oriented event sponsored every two years by the Eightmile River Wild & Scenic Coordinating Committee in celebration of the Eightmile River. Come visit the Lyme Land Trust display.

Bluegrass Music- Eight Mile River Band (of course)
Great Food- chowder, chili, apples, cider, and other sweet treats.
Great Fun- Birds of Prey, Native Reptiles, and more family activities.
Great Information-Displays sponsored by local and state organizations including the Lyme Land Conservation Trust.

Rain cancels. Check eightmileriver.org for updates.

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Please join us for this free family-oriented event sponsored every two years by the Eightmile River Wild & Scenic Coordinating Committee in celebration of the Eightmile River. Come visit the Lyme Land Trust display.

Bluegrass Music- Eight Mile River Band (of course)
Great Food- chowder, chili, apples, cider, and other sweet treats.
Great Fun- Birds of Prey, Native Reptiles, and more family activities.
Great Information-Displays sponsored by local and state organizations including the Lyme Land Conservation Trust.

Rain cancels. Check eightmileriver.org for updates.

Click on the poster to enlarge it.


Autumn Astronomy Observing Session

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Date: Fri October 15, 2021
Time: 7:00 to 9:30 pm
Place: Register to learn location
Contact Email: scott.mallory@gmail.com
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Come join us for a night of fall observing on Friday October 15. On this night, the first quarter moon will be visible at sunset, so we will spend some time observing it along the terminator line that separates light from dark on the moon. Hands on exploring will be encouraged. We will also see Jupiter and Saturn, and welcome some of the new objects as they rise in the eastern sky, signaling the transition from summer to fall. If you have a telescope bring it out. There’s plenty of space to setup, and cohorts will be happy to assist if needed.

Reservations required. scott.mallory@gmail.com. Site details will be sent with registration.

For more information about the astronomy program


 

Come join us for a night of fall observing on Friday October 15. On this night, the first quarter moon will be visible at sunset, so we will spend some time observing it along the terminator line that separates light from dark on the moon. Hands on exploring will be encouraged. We will also see Jupiter and Saturn, and welcome some of the new objects as they rise in the eastern sky, signaling the transition from summer to fall. If you have a telescope bring it out. There’s plenty of space to setup, and cohorts will be happy to assist if needed.

Reservations required. scott.mallory@gmail.com. Site details will be sent with registration.

For more information about the astronomy program


Imagining Lyme–Photo Submission Deadline Spring/Summer Season

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Joe Standart
Date: Tue October 12, 2021
Time: midnight
Place: Submit photos to Imagining Lyme website
Contact Email: education@lymelandtrust.org
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You can submit during this ten-day Grace Period.
The Lyme Land Trust program Imagining Lyme: A Visual Exploration of Lyme’s Preserves encourages everyone to expand their visual awareness and highlight the beauty of the Lyme preserves owned by the Lyme Land Trust, the Town of Lyme and the Nature Conservancy by taking photographs prompted by inspiration from Joe Standart, a professional photographer and Land Trust Board member. For more information. 


You can submit during this ten-day Grace Period.
The Lyme Land Trust program Imagining Lyme: A Visual Exploration of Lyme’s Preserves encourages everyone to expand their visual awareness and highlight the beauty of the Lyme preserves owned by the Lyme Land Trust, the Town of Lyme and the Nature Conservancy by taking photographs prompted by inspiration from Joe Standart, a professional photographer and Land Trust Board member. For more information. 


Tuesday Trek: Plimpton Preserve

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Date: Tue October 12, 2021
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Plimpton Preserve, Sterling City Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Kristina White
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Plimpton Preserve – Meet at the trailhead on Sterling City Rd.  Arduous but short hike to overlook. 1.75 mile loop with some walking on the road.

Contact: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org

View the Tuesday Trek Schedule

Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


 

Plimpton Preserve – Meet at the trailhead on Sterling City Rd.  Arduous but short hike to overlook. 1.75 mile loop with some walking on the road.

Contact: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org

View the Tuesday Trek Schedule

Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


Walk and Talk with Pete Picone: Native Plants at Hartman Park-Fall Colors

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Photo by Wendolyn Hill
Date: Sun October 10, 2021
Time: 1:30-3:30 pm
Place: Hartman Park, Field Entrance, Gungy Rd. Lyme, Hartman Park, Field Entrance, Gungy Rd. Lyme CT, Pull off road near gate about ½ mile north of the main entrance.
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
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Join Pete Picone, CT DEEP wildlife biologist, for a tour of the pollinator meadow, surrounding shrub-land, and forest in Hartman Park to experience the fall beauty of native plants. Learn how to make a difference for wildlife by planting and nurturing natives, and managing invasives in your own back yard.

Co-sponsored with the Lyme Pollinator Pathway.

Registration required: openspace@townlyme.org

 

 


 

Join Pete Picone, CT DEEP wildlife biologist, for a tour of the pollinator meadow, surrounding shrub-land, and forest in Hartman Park to experience the fall beauty of native plants. Learn how to make a difference for wildlife by planting and nurturing natives, and managing invasives in your own back yard.

Co-sponsored with the Lyme Pollinator Pathway.

Registration required: openspace@townlyme.org

 

 


Hiking Club for Middle Schoolers

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Photo by Regan Stacey
Date: Sat October 9, 2021
Time: 3:15-4:45 pm
Place: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve, Brush Hill Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: reganstacey@gmail.com
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You are welcome to join our group for middle school-aged children. Come hike the trails! Every month the hike will be an adventure to explore the natural world. It meets the second Saturday of each month in a different preserve.

The Hiking Club is a drop-off/pick-up program.  If you are a parent who would like to walk the trails during the club time, you are welcome to do so on your own, with other friends/parents, or even bring your dog!
The Hiking Club is limited to 10 participants per meet-up.
Registration required, email reganstacey@gmail.com.

 

The club is organized by volunteer Regan Stacey, who has children in the LOL school district.

Environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey currently runs the Tree Collective, a Lyme Land Trust program for teens. She owns Awaken the Forest Within, a mindfulness-based practice that helps [re]connect people to nature for the betterment of themselves and the earth.


 

You are welcome to join our group for middle school-aged children. Come hike the trails! Every month the hike will be an adventure to explore the natural world. It meets the second Saturday of each month in a different preserve.

The Hiking Club is a drop-off/pick-up program.  If you are a parent who would like to walk the trails during the club time, you are welcome to do so on your own, with other friends/parents, or even bring your dog!
The Hiking Club is limited to 10 participants per meet-up.
Registration required, email reganstacey@gmail.com.

 

The club is organized by volunteer Regan Stacey, who has children in the LOL school district.

Environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey currently runs the Tree Collective, a Lyme Land Trust program for teens. She owns Awaken the Forest Within, a mindfulness-based practice that helps [re]connect people to nature for the betterment of themselves and the earth.


Opossums – Peaceful Co-existence with Backyard Wildlife

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Bill and Pam Lefferts
Date: Wed October 6, 2021
Time: 7 pm
Place: Lyme Public Hall, 249 Hamburg Rd. , Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
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Learn all about our helpful wildlife friends, the opossums, with Pamela and William Lefferts, wildlife rehabilitators with Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue.

The Lefferts will show a slide show which explains wildlife rehabilitation and the role of rehabbers, with a focus on opossums. At the end of the show, there will be a “meet and greet ” with the stars of the show, live opossum educational ambassadors.

This program is co-sponsored with the Lyme Public Library, with funding from the Lyme Land Trust,

Pamela A. Lefferts is a licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator in CT. Retired after many years in the field of education, Pam is the “hands-on” partner and does the critical medical care of the animals, preparing them for release. William H. Lefferts is a licensed CT Rehabilitator and Transporter.  Bill retired after teaching secondary school moderate to severe special needs children for over 40 years.  Bill helps with socialization and is instrumental in releases.

Always lovers of animals, the Lefferts operated a hobby farm for many years prior to retirement. In 2016 they began the process of becoming Wildlife rehabilitators and in early 2017 they opened Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue.  They believe it is the perfect volunteer opportunity for retirees and love to share their passion and knowledge of how and what “rehabbing” entails. Specializing in opossum, the Lefferts especially enjoy sharing knowledge about these misunderstood gentle creatures.

Meet them on FaceBook

Masks are required inside the building for all except the speaker.
Registration required: openspace@townlyme.org

 


Learn all about our helpful wildlife friends, the opossums, with Pamela and William Lefferts, wildlife rehabilitators with Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue.

The Lefferts will show a slide show which explains wildlife rehabilitation and the role of rehabbers, with a focus on opossums. At the end of the show, there will be a “meet and greet ” with the stars of the show, live opossum educational ambassadors.

This program is co-sponsored with the Lyme Public Library, with funding from the Lyme Land Trust,

Pamela A. Lefferts is a licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator in CT. Retired after many years in the field of education, Pam is the “hands-on” partner and does the critical medical care of the animals, preparing them for release. William H. Lefferts is a licensed CT Rehabilitator and Transporter.  Bill retired after teaching secondary school moderate to severe special needs children for over 40 years.  Bill helps with socialization and is instrumental in releases.

Always lovers of animals, the Lefferts operated a hobby farm for many years prior to retirement. In 2016 they began the process of becoming Wildlife rehabilitators and in early 2017 they opened Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue.  They believe it is the perfect volunteer opportunity for retirees and love to share their passion and knowledge of how and what “rehabbing” entails. Specializing in opossum, the Lefferts especially enjoy sharing knowledge about these misunderstood gentle creatures.

Meet them on FaceBook

Masks are required inside the building for all except the speaker.
Registration required: openspace@townlyme.org

 


Tuesday Trek: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve

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Photo: Wendolyn Hill
Date: Tue October 5, 2021
Time: 9:30 -11:30ish am
Place: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve, Brush Hill Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Wendy Hill
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Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve–Meet at the Brush Hill Road parking lot. We will walk along the purple trail on the new boardwalk and take the old Platt Road path to the Selden cemetery– 2+ miles.

Reserve a spot: openspace@townlyme.org

View the Tuesday Trek Schedule

Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


 

Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve–Meet at the Brush Hill Road parking lot. We will walk along the purple trail on the new boardwalk and take the old Platt Road path to the Selden cemetery– 2+ miles.

Reserve a spot: openspace@townlyme.org

View the Tuesday Trek Schedule

Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


Fire! Talk & Walk to Learn about the Burn in Nehantic State Forest

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Wendolyn Hill
Date: Sun October 3, 2021
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Place: Nehantic State Forest, Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
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Join retired DEEP forester Emery Gluck for a short talk and walk off-trail on a 17-acre tract of Nehantic State Forest that has been repeatedly burned since 1993. CT DEEP is using controlled burn as a forest management tool. The goal of the burn is to promote an open park-like oak savanna, which was likely prevalent in the pre-settlement forest near Native American camps and villages. Native Americans burned frequently to promote grasses for their game animals, to increase berry production, to facilitate firewood and acorn collection, to reduce pests, for hunting, ease of travel, and many other reasons. The fires killed mostly thin-barked and smaller trees while promoting grasses, forbs, and large trees.

We will walk off-trail through the site. Wear long pants and sturdy shoes. Meet at the small lot on Keeny Rd. 1/4 mile in from Rte 156. Keeny Road is the main forest road. The entrance is on Route 156 (Hamburg Road) just south of Lyme Fire Company Station in Hamburg.

Registration required: openspace@townlyme.org

 


Join retired DEEP forester Emery Gluck for a short talk and walk off-trail on a 17-acre tract of Nehantic State Forest that has been repeatedly burned since 1993. CT DEEP is using controlled burn as a forest management tool. The goal of the burn is to promote an open park-like oak savanna, which was likely prevalent in the pre-settlement forest near Native American camps and villages. Native Americans burned frequently to promote grasses for their game animals, to increase berry production, to facilitate firewood and acorn collection, to reduce pests, for hunting, ease of travel, and many other reasons. The fires killed mostly thin-barked and smaller trees while promoting grasses, forbs, and large trees.

We will walk off-trail through the site. Wear long pants and sturdy shoes. Meet at the small lot on Keeny Rd. 1/4 mile in from Rte 156. Keeny Road is the main forest road. The entrance is on Route 156 (Hamburg Road) just south of Lyme Fire Company Station in Hamburg.

Registration required: openspace@townlyme.org

 


Tuesday Trek: Thach Preserve

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Date: Tue September 28, 2021
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Thach Preserve, 131 Brush Hill Rd, Lyme CT
Contact Email: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
Presenter: Tony Irving
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Thach Preserve. Meet at the parking lot, 131 Brush Hill Rd. Short 1-mile walk, but with lots of ecology to experience and learn about.

To reserve a space: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com

View the Tuesday Trek Schedule

Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.

 


 

Thach Preserve. Meet at the parking lot, 131 Brush Hill Rd. Short 1-mile walk, but with lots of ecology to experience and learn about.

To reserve a space: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com

View the Tuesday Trek Schedule

Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.

Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.

Inclement weather cancels.