New Hartford Land Trust

March 9, 2012

Volume 3, Issue 3

 

Cedar Waxwings lo rez Gordon Ellmers

Flock of Cedar Waxwings

Photo courtesy of Gordon Ellmers 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Please Join Us For the 2012

NHLT Annual Meeting

and a Presentation

 

'Saving Our Wild Areas, One Yard at a Time'

Margery Winters

 

Sunday, March 11th

 at 4 p.m. 

New Hartford Town Hall 

3rd Floor

 

This year's Annual Meeting is dedicated to
the memories of Ron Eigenbrod, Donna
Brooks and Murray Gibson, current or
former NHLT Board members at the time

of their deaths in 2011.

 

Learn more about what your Land Trust is

working on and how you can get involved!

More details below . . .

 

 
 

 Presenter:

Margery Winters

Assistant Director

Roaring Brook Nature Center

 

Back by popular demand after her wonderful presentation last year, Margery will help us consider our common gardening and land management practices to see what each

of us can do to help protect and preserve

our wild areas.

 

Join us this Sunday afternoon for an interesting talk and slides, a brief business meeting and election of Board members, updates on the

Land Trust and our current priorities, refreshments, and a visit with neighbors.

Bring your questions!

 

Margery Winters has a longstanding interest in how
every citizen can be a good steward of the environment, whether in their yard, garden or the community.
Margery is Assistant Director of Roaring Brook Nature Center in Canton and manages the Nature Center's
native plant gardens.

 

Margery is keenly interested in how private and public

entities and interests work together to promote the natural environment. She serves as Vice Chairman,

Simsbury Inland Wetland/Conservation Commission,

as a member of the Simsbury Open Space Committee

and is a board member of the Simsbury Land Trust.

 

Margery has also been actively involved in Connecticut's river and land issues and is the former Director of Programs and Research with the statewide river

advocacy organization, Rivers Alliance of Connecticut.

 Before moving to Connecticut in the mid-1980s,

Margery was an Environmental Scientist with

Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago.
 

 

Quick Link:

 

Join NHLT for 2012! 

 

 

 

Noel - R&J in grove lo rez 

Above, members of the NHLT's Land Conservation Committee in the lovely grove of old hemlocks on our newest parcel, the Ken Eric Noel Property.

 

 

Let us know how you want to get involved by mailing in the membership form on the back of the newsletter sent recently to every household in town or via the contact info below. We look forward to hearing from you! 

 

 

New Hartford Land Trust

P.O. Box 272
New Hartford, CT 06057
 
For more information, please e-mail us at:
  newhartfordlandtrust@yahoo.com or call 860-626-0301.