Past Events
Hadlyme Autumn Road Litter Clean Up
Date: Sat November 23, 2019Time: 9:00 am
Place: Meet at Hadlyme Country Market, Rte 148, Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Volunteers Needed
Project: Pick Up Litter Along Rt. 82 from Shagbark To Baker Lane
Orange or Bright Yellow Outerwear Recommended
Plastic Bags Will Be Provided
Sponsored by Hadlyme Public Hall, North School Society, Friends of Whalebone Cove, Lyme Land Conservation Trust, Hadlyme Hall Garden Club, & Town Of Lyme Open Space Office.
More Info – Call Humphrey 518-253-4844
(Rain Date: 1 PM Sunday Nov 24)
Explore Nature Walk for Families with Kim Hargrave
Date: Sun November 17, 2019Time: 1:00 pm
Place: Banningwood Preserve, Town Street, Lyme CT
Contact Email: education@lymelandtrust.org
Please join us at Banningwood Preserve for a family walk geared for young children, with Kim Hargrave, Education Director of Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center. Along the way we’ll explore rock outcroppings, notice changes of the season and search for creatures getting ready for winter. We will listen to the sounds around us to create sound maps.
Reservations appreciated. Education@lymelandtrust.org
The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center. located in Mystic CT, is a combination wildlife sanctuary, natural history museum, and educational facility highlighting the habitats of southeastern Connecticut. Their mission is to inspire and nurture appreciation and scientific understanding of the natural world and foster a personal environmental ethic.
Ceremonial Stonework: The Enduring Native American Presence on the Land
Date: Fri November 15, 2019Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Lyme Public Hall, 248 Hamburg Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Documentary photographer Markham Starr will present a slideshow which takes the audience on an extended walk through the woods to see the ceremonial stonework left behind by the indigenous population that inhabited New England for 12,000 years. Native Americans built several distinct types of structures in our area, ranging from cairns to stone serpent effigies, and these spiritual offerings remain standing in now long abandoned woods. While Native American stonework is widely recognized out west and to the south, New England’s stonework remains obscure, having blended back into the woods. This slideshow, from the book by the same name, comes from photographs from sites in North Stonington and neighboring Rhode Island.
Attendees of the slideshow will be invited to a walk to see stonework in one of our local preserves on Saturday, November 16th at 9:00 am, location to be announced (raindate Nov 17).
Markham Starr is a documentary photographer concerned with the disappearing working cultures of New England. He is the author of a dozen books, providing glimpses into the lives of people such as commercial fishermen, farmers, and cannery workers, and has written about other subjects such as historic barns in Connecticut. His work has appeared in national magazines and is part of the permanent collection at the Library of Congress, Historic New England, and other museums throughout New England.
For information: openspace@townlyme.org.
Demonstration and Work Party with an Audubon Expert- Identifying and Removing Invasive Plants
Date: Sat October 19, 2019Time: 9:30 am-11:30 am
Place: Olde Field Preserve, 170 Parker Rd, East Haddam, 06423
Contact Email: gnuttall@audubon.org
Join an expert from Audubon Connecticut to learn how to identify and remove invasive plant species. This is an excellent event for volunteers who wish to learn how to enhance wildlife habitat by controlling invasives in our nature preserves and in their own backyards. Please bring heavy duty work gloves, shovels, and pruning shears/loppers/clippers to this event. Bring protective clothing, sunscreen, and water.
This free event is part of a Bird Workshop Series offered by the Lyme Forest Block Conservation Project—an initiative launched by Audubon Connecticut, in partnership with the Town of Lyme and the Lyme Land Trust, the Eightmile River Wild and Scenic Coordinating Committee, The Nature Conservancy, and other local land trusts, and municipalities. For a schedule of other events offered by the Lyme Forest Block Conservation Project.
Space is limited. Please fill out this RSVP form if you plan to attend this workshop.
Tree Collective- Teen Steward Group Meet-up
Date: Sun October 13, 2019Time: 1:00-4:00 pm
Place: To be Determined
Contact Email: education@lymelandtrust.org
The Tree Collective is a program designed to engage young conservationists ages 14-18 in outdoor fun and education while working to maintain trails in our beautiful town of Lyme, CT. It is sponsored by the Lyme Land Trust under the leadership of environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey, Lyme Land Trust board director.
Each time we meet, we offer a different topic, often with a hike and trail work in a selected preserve. Tools and gloves provided.
Mycology Walk with Laurie Gorham
Date: Sat October 5, 2019Time: 10:00 -11:30 am
Place: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve, Meet at parking lot on Brush Hill Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: education@lymelandtrust.org
Please join us for a walk to search for fungi with local mushroom lover Laurie Gorham. A long-time member of the CT Valley Mycological Society, Laurie will identify the various fungi along the trails, pointing out edibles, medicinals, and poisonous mushroom varieties. Heavy rain cancels.
Reservations appreciated: education@lymelandtrust.org
Climate Change in CT
Date: Sat September 28, 2019Time: 2:00 -4:00 pm
Place: Lyme Public Library, 482 Hamburg Road, Lyme CT 06371
Contact Email: programreg@lymepl.org
Presenter: Lyme Public Libaray
This presentation will explore current and predicted climate change impacts for Connecticut and Long Island Sound over the next 100 years, information and tools that are available and adaptation strategies to improve our resilience. Storms Irene and Sandy showed just how vulnerable Connecticut is to damage from intense storm events. The impacts of climate change on municipalities is likely to result in more intense rainfall events, higher air and water temperatures, more vulnerable beaches and dunes, and increases to the land and infrastructure that could be inundated by rising sea levels and riverine flooding. These events challenge communities to come up with adaptation strategies to deal with impacts from climate change and many communities are working to address this challenge.
Juliana Barrett is with the University of Connecticut Sea Grant College Program and the Department of Extension. Her work focuses on climate change adaptation and coastal habitat management working with Connecticut’s municipalities, NGO’s and state and federal partners. Prior to coming to Sea Grant in 2006 she worked with CT DEP on management plans for state natural areas and for The Nature Conservancy as the Director of the Connecticut River Tidelands Last Great Places Program. She has a doctorate in plant ecology from the University of Connecticut and is a co-author of the Vegetation of Connecticut and Salt Marsh Plants of Long Island Sound.
Please call to register 860-434-2272 or email programreg@lymepl.org.
Work Party to Help Plant Elm Trees at Czikowsky Hill Preserve
Date: Thu September 26, 2019Time: 10:00am -2:00pm
Place: At Czikowsky Hill Preserve, Joshuatown Rd., Lyme CT. Park at Hemlocks Preserve. On Joshuatown Road, just across the road from the end of Old Hamburg Rd.
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: The Nature Conservancy
Please join us to help The Nature Conservancy plant 20 disease-resistant elm trees in Czikowsky Hill Preserve. Czikowsky Hill Preserve is owned by the Town of Lyme and The Nature Conservancy with a Lyme Land Trust easement. The Nature Conservancy is doing a series of plantings along rivers and floodplain areas in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont with the intent that elm trees with a proven tolerance to Dutch elm disease will become well-established and ensure this important tree species remains a healthy part of riparian forests throughout the state.
Please bring heavy duty work gloves, sturdy shoes, and water. Bring a shovel if you have one.
Please let us know if you plan to join us: openspace@townlyme.org
Demonstration and Work Party with an Audubon Expert- Identifying and Removing Invasive Plants
Date: Sat September 21, 2019Time: 9:30 am-12:00 pm
Place: Hartman Park Main Entrance, Gungy Road, Lyme
Contact Email: gnuttall@audubon.org
Join an expert from Audubon Connecticut to learn how to identify and remove invasive plant species along the trail at Hartman Park. This is an excellent event for volunteers who wish to learn how to enhance wildlife habitat by controlling invasives in our nature preserves and in their own backyards. Please bring heavy duty work gloves, shovels, and pruning shears/loppers/clippers to this event. Bring protective clothing, sunscreen, and water.
This free event is part of a Bird Workshop Series offered by the Lyme Forest Block Conservation Project—an initiative launched by Audubon Connecticut, in partnership with the Town of Lyme and the Lyme Land Trust, the Eightmile River Wild and Scenic Coordinating Committee, The Nature Conservancy, and other local land trusts, and municipalities. For a schedule of other events offered by the Lyme Forest Block Conservation Project.
Space is limited. Please fill out this RSVP form if you plan to attend this workshop. Sign up for the September 21 event even if it doesn’t say Hartman Park.
Cruise to View Swallow Spectacular
Date: Fri September 20, 2019Time: 5 to 8 pm
Place: RiverQuest, Eagle Landing State Park, Haddam
Contact Email: info@lymelandtrust.org
Join fellow nature lovers and friends aboard RiverQuest to view this miraculous display as swallows amass above an island in the CT River as a part of their migration ritual. The birds congregate before suddenly descending as one to roost just as the sun sets. Learn about the swallows and the other birds we see, such as bald eagles and osprey, from on-board expert birders and naturalists.
Wine, cheese, and light refreshments are included. Bring binoculars. If you don’t have your own binoculars, they will be provided.
Preregistration and prepayment required. If the trip is canceled because of inclement weather, refunds will be provided. The cost is $50 per person, including refreshments. No children under 10. The boat leaves Eagle Landing State Park in Haddam promptly at 5:00 and returns in about three hours.
For more info: info@lymelandtrust.org
Members may register using the form below. Tickets are non-refundable after September 17. After that date, if we have a waiting list, we will use our best efforts to find a buyer for your ticket(s) if you need to cancel. No-shows on cruise day are not refundable. If the trip is canceled because of inclement weather, refunds will be provided.
