New Website
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We have been working to improve our website over the past few months. Please do take a look around the new site and tell us what you think! Is there something that you think is missing? What other information would you like us to include? We would love to hear from you!
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New England Cottontail Initiative
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 | New England cottontail
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The CT DEP has joined the New England Cottontail Project team to develop and implement a regional initiative to restore 1,200 acres of New England Cottontail habitat in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and Maine. The New England cottontail is the only cottontail rabbit native to Connecticut. Here is fact sheet published by the DEP. It is very similar to another species, the eastern cottontail. The physical differences (body size, shape of ears, markings) between the two are so subtle that DNA testing is required to confirm identification. The rabbits do prefer different habitats. The eastern cottontail like lawns, golf courses, and active agricultural lands, while the New England cottontail prefers early successional habitat like fallow farmland, old fields, regenerating forests and dense thickets of shrubs.
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The New England cottontail is considered a species of greatest conservation need and a petition to list it as threatened or endangered and to designate critical habitat under the federal Endangered Species Act was filed in 2008.
The CT DEP Wildlife Division's target goal is to restore 150 acres of New England cottontail habitat on state-owned properties to serve as demonstration areas and core locations from which New England cottontails onto surrounding privately-owned parcels. Funding will be available to other landowners such as Naromi, to become active partners in this project and manage their own property with the New England cottontail in mind.
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Call for Volunteers
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 Naromi needs volunteers to help us organize our events in 2011. We have plans and ideas but we need both worker bees and someone with vision and leadership to realize Naromi's goals. Do you have fun organizing gatherings and activities for your friends and family? Would you like to translate that talent to a larger scale to benefit Naromi? Naromi's events range from volunteer workdays and hikes to large scale galas for 300+ people. We need your help on the small, large and in between. Call or email the office today!
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Cross-country Skiing at Hadlow Fields
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 | View atop Hadlow Field
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Please keep a lookout for emails regarding a cross-country skiing this winter in the Hadlow Fields. When the conditions are right, Naromi will lead an outing for cross-country skiers and/or snowshoers. Warming beverages and treats to follow in the neighborhood. Notice will likely be short because of variable conditions, so let us know if you would like to be on a list of interested persons. We will send out an extra notice to those folks. Let it snow!
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