Past Events
Work Party At Banningwood Preserve
Date: Sun September 16, 2018Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Place: Banningwood Preserve, Town Street (Rte 82), Lyme
Contact Email: stewardship@lymelandtrust.org
Join us for a work party on the beautiful Banningwood Preserve. We would like to start clearing the upper field and blazing a new blue trail, and we need your help! Duties include clearing sticks, mowing, trail trimming, etc. We also need members of our chainsaw brigade to help cut trees on a small embankment.
Please bring water bottles, loppers, clippers, shovels, work gloves, rakes and other equipment if you have it. We will provide a small mower and a hedge trimmer. If you are able to help take down trees and have access to a chainsaw, please bring that as well.
Drinking water and lunch will be provided! Lunch will be available at noon.
Please email Stewardship@lymelandtrust.org if you are planning to come. Let us know what tools you will be bringing.
Work Party on Red Trail at Jewett Preserve
Date: Sun August 26, 2018Time: 9:00-11:30am
Place: Jewett Preserve Cemetery Entrance
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join us for a hike to clean up the red trail at the Jewett Preserve, led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator. It is a bit of a hike to get to the red trail. Bushes and saplings that are encroaching on the path have been cut back by a volunteer. Some of the cut brush needs to be cleaned up. Bring along heavy-duty gloves, a rake, and loppers or clippers. Meet at the cemetery entrance.
Rain cancels.
Directions: Rt. 156 north to left on Mt. Archer Road. Travel about 1.25 miles. The Jewett Cemetery Entrance is on the right.
Anthony Irving Entertains at Lyme Farmers Market
Date: Sat August 18, 2018Time: 9:30am-1:00pm
Place: Lyme Farmers Market, Ashlawn Farms, Bill Hill Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: info@lymelandtrust.org
Come to the Lyme Farmers Market on Saturday and be serenaded with beautiful acoustic guitar and singing by Lyme Land Trust board member Anthony Irving. All donations received will support the Lyme Land Conservation Trust.
As Chip Dahlke, owner of Ashlawn Farm says, “Tony is coming for some musical mellowness. Please throw some cash in his case. All proceeds will benefit the Lyme Land Conservation Trust. Who’s better than Tony? When it comes to hugging trees, Tony is the main man.”
Programs in the Park
Time: 10:00-11:00 am, July 14. 21, 28
Place: Devil's Hopyard State Park Meet at Covered Bridge
Contact Email: pyoung@eightmileriver.org
Presenter: Eightmile River Wild and Scenic Watershed Committee
July 14: Aqua Wonders
July 21: Friendly Backyard Bats
July 28: Frogs, Snakes and Turtles, Oh My
For more information about all of the programs: 8Mile Family Programs
Anthony Irving Entertains at Lyme Farmers Market
Date: Sat July 7, 2018Time: 9:30am-1:00pm
Place: Lyme Farmers Market, Ashlawn Farms, Bill Hill Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: info@lymelandtrust.org
Come to the Lyme Farmers Market on Saturday and be serenaded with beautiful acoustic guitar and singing by Lyme Land Trust board member Anthony Irving. All donations received will support the Lyme Land Conservation Trust.
As Chip Dahlke, owner of Ashlawn Farm says, “Tony is coming for some musical mellowness. Please throw some cash in his case. All proceeds will benefit the Lyme Land Conservation Trust. Who’s better than Tony? When it comes to hugging trees, Tony is the main man.”
Our Annual Meeting 2018 – Thank-you George and Rosemary Moore!!
Date: Fri June 22, 2018Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Lyme Public Hall, 249 Hamburg Road (Rte 156) Hamburg, CT
Contact Email: info@lymelandtrust.org
Please join us for community cheer, light fare, and libations to celebrate George and Rosemary Moore’s fourteen years of service and dedication to the Lyme Land Trust. George Moore retired as executive director of the Land Trust in 2017. He was elected to the Land Trust Board as a Director in 2003. In 2007, he was elected Board President, and in 2013 the Board appointed him as its first Executive Director. Through his vision and effective management, with Rosemary at his side, George helped transform the Land Trust into one of the most active and successful trusts in the Nation.
Everyone is welcome. The evening will begin with a brief business meeting where members will be asked to vote on a few agenda items.
Lyme Trails Boot Camp – Postponed
Date: Sun June 17, 2018Time: 1:30-3:30pm
Place: Hartman Park, Gungy Road, Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Lyme Land Trust and Town of Lyme
This program will be rescheduled in the fall.
Do you love Lyme preserves and want to help maintain them by becoming a trail volunteer or a preserve steward? Please join us for a trail maintenance boot camp at Hartman Park in Lyme to learn what you can do on your own or as part of a work party. You will find out how to recognize the most common invasive plant species that we are working to control in the preserves. Strategies for preventing tick bites will be discussed. You will be introduced to the free smart phone app TrackKit. Using GPS, the app tracks your path and allows you to mark location on trails to best report a problem or downed tree. This app can also assist you if you get lost. Preserve stewards have a bit more responsibility than trail volunteers: they monitor a preserve, may be asked to respond to a trail report, and lead work parties if needed.
Bring along heavy-duty gloves and light-weight tools: weeders, pruners, and/or loppers. Bring water. Snacks will be provided.
Meet at the Main Parking Lot of Hartman Park on Gungy Road, about 1 mile north of the 4-way stop signs at the intersection with Beaverbrook Road and Grassy Hill Road.
Registration required: Openspace@townlyme.org
If possible, it is asked that the app be downloaded before you come to the workshop. Instructions to download of the app TrackKIt will be forwarded to you at registration if requested.
Volunteer Work Party at Hartman Park
Date: Sun June 3, 2018Time: 9:30-11:30 am
Place: Hartman Park. Meet at the power lines right-of-way entrance.
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Town of Lyme
Please come pitch in to help on the Orange Trail at Hartman Park. We will install a bridge made by Thom Lamourine, and take care of other maintenance work. There are fallen trees to remove from the trails and encroaching vegetation to be trimmed. Bring along heavy duty gloves and tools; weeders, pruners, and/or loppers. Chain saws and power weeders are welcome. Bring water. A snack will be provided.
Rain Cancels.
Directions: The Hartman Park power line right-of-way entrance is on Gungy Road about 2 miles north of the 4-way stop signs at the intersection of Beaverbrook Road, Grassy Hill Road, and Gungy Road.
Photo by Wendolyn Hill
CT Trails Day Walk
Time: 9:30 - 11:30am
Place: Slawson Preserve Parking at 435 Hamburg Road, (Rte 156). Lyme CT.
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join us for a walk at the Lyme Land Trust’s Slawson Nature Preserve with Lisa Wahle, the ”Bunny Lady”, a biologist who works on young forest habitat restoration; and Mark LaCasse, Master Wildlife Conservationist and professional land manager of one of the abutting private lands; and Emery Gluck, who manages habitat restoration at Nehantic State Forest as part of CT DEEP Division of Forestry.
We will see Phase 2 of the on-going process to improve the land for the benefit of the threatened New England cottontail rabbit and other species that depend upon young forests. On last year’s walk, we saw the results of Phase 1: the vegetation regrowth on 25 acres that had been cleared several years ago on private property adjacent to the preserve. This Fall 2017, the Land Trust began Phase 2: the harvest of trees from the Slawson Preserve.
The Land Trust, private landowners, and the State have agreed to harvest mature trees over a 6 to 10-year period to create an environment that is suitable for young forest species. As the cleared areas grow back, it will create the desirable young brushy environment where the bunnies find food and protection from predators. Staggering the treatments will ensure that this successional habitat is available for a longer time. This process is beneficial to more than 50 species of greatest conservation need including prairie warbler, ruffed grouse, indigo bunting, American woodcock, wood turtle, and blue spotted salamander. Interested residents can find more information about bunnies here.
Parking is available at 435 Hamburg Rd (Rte 156), Lyme, CT. Follow the dirt driveway to the parking area. We have permission to park at the end of this long private driveway for this special event only. No dogs please.
Reservations Recommended (in case of cancellation): openspace@townlyme.org
Rain Cancels.
For the CT Trails Day Directory of Walks 2018.
Chestnut Hill Volunteer Work Party
Date: Wed May 30, 2018Time: 9:30-11:30am
Place: Chestnut Hill Preserve, Sterling Hill Road, Lyme
Contact Email: stewardship@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Join us for Trail Trimming
Join us for a trail trimming work party at Chestnut Hill Preserve in Lyme. We will hike and trim the orange trail led by Sue Cope, Lyme Land Trust Environmental Director. We will cut back branches that are encroaching on the path as we walk. Bring along heavy-duty gloves, clippers and loppers.
Rain cancels.
Directions: Rt. 156 to Sterling City Road (either by Tiffany Farm or the Hamburg Fairgrounds). Go about 1 mile. Turn onto Sterling Hill Road. Chestnut Hill entrance is about 0.5 mile on the right. Parking is along the side of the road.
