New Hartford Land Trust

April 17, 2012

Vol. 3, Issue 4
Students digging and planting
2011 Planting Day volunteers digging in!
NHLT's first planting day was a great success thanks to more than 40 students from Northwest Regional High School No. 7 who volunteered last May. Along with 40+ hardworking adults, they formed planting and fencing teams that dug in 200 native shrubs and trees. Nearly all the plants have flourished so far thanks to so much rain last summer. We may need to start watering soon though due to lack of rain this spring.

 

Fencing Team Gets Organized
The fencing teams followed the planters.

With the support of a grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the USDA, the Land Trust is working to improve wildlife habitat in the old sand and gravel extraction area (about 12+ acres)on our Alfred Sabolcik property. This includes removing invasive shrubs such as Multiflora rose, Barberry and Autumn Olive, planting native shrubs and trees along the stream, and planting native, warm-season grasses.

 

NHLT is grateful to the New Hartford Conservation Commission for their help with this project.

 

 

 

 

Celebrate Earth Day with NHLT several times during the next month!

 

Please read all the way down for opportunities to take a guided walk, remove invasive shrubs, plant native trees and bushes along a stream, etc.

 

Join us for the 2nd Annual Spring Planting!

Help put 100 native shrubs and trees

in the streamside buffer area

at the Alfred Sabolcik Property.

  

Saturday, May 19th

9:15 a.m.- Sign in

9:30 a.m. - Noon - Planting

Noon - 1 p.m. - Lunch

1 p.m. - 3 p.m. - Cleanup

Enter across from 140 Sabolcik Road

 

Please e-mail us to let us know

 you're coming so we know how

many people to expect, how much lunch

to provide, etc. We'll let you know what

tools to bring, directions, etc.

 

See our event flyer for more details or download a parental permission form.

(We welcome teenagers who can work

independently on Planting Day as long as

they have the signed permission of

a parent or guardian.)

 

See below for information about upcoming

work days and guided walks! 

2011 Planting Day Check in Vols
NHLT Board Members check in volunteers at Planting Day 2011

 


Other Upcoming Walks and Work Days:

Please e-mail us if you are interested and we will send directions, what to bring, etc.

 

Saturday, April 21st at 9:00 a.m. - Work Day at the Alfred Sabolcik Property to prepare for Planting Day. This will be focused on invasive removal so hardy adults are needed with good pruners, tough work gloves, boots, etc.! 

 

Thursday, April 26th at 5:30 p.m. - Short Hike at the Ken Eric Noel Property with consulting Biologist, Betsy Corrigan, as guide for all things spring. This is NHLT's newest property at the New Hartford-Harwinton line.

 

Sunday, June 3rd at 9:30 a.m. - CT Trails Day hike at Phillips Farm Open Space Preserve (preserved by the Town of New Hartford through a conservation easement) 

 

Phillips Farm view East from top of hayfield with green cut hay
View to the East from Phillips Farm Hayfield. Join us for a guided hike on June 3rd.
Noel Pond & fall trees
The NHLT's Ken Eric Noel Property has a pond-wetland complex along with a hemlock grove and other woodlands. Walk it with Consulting Biologist Betsy Corrigan on April 26th.

 

Quick Links
Plant a native shrub, tree or perennial in your own yard or garden and replace an invasive shrub.

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.