New Hartford Land Trust

March 7, 2016

Volume 7, Issue 1 

 

Beaver Lodge in New Hartford

Photo by Catherine Brooks
 
   Beaver Dam at NHLT's
Alfred Sabolcik Property

Photo by Madeline McClave


 

 


Please Join us for the 2016

NHLT Annual Meeting

and a Slide Presentation

 

Beavers: 
 A Keystone Species
 
Mike Callahan
Beaver Solutions LLC

  

Wednesday, March 16th

 at 7 p.m. 

New Hartford Town Hall

530 Main Street, 3rd Floor 

 New Hartford

 

All Are Welcome! 

 

Come and learn more

about what your Land Trust is working

on and how you can get involved!

Details below . . .

 

 

Most people only become aware of beavers when they are a nuisance but did you know that biologists classify beavers as a keystone species? Beaver ponds create wetlands which are among the most biologically productive ecosystems in the world (U.S. EPA, September 2001). They increase plant, bird and wildlife variety, improve water quality, and raise salmon and trout populations. This one species supports thousands!
 
Mike Callahan is the owner and operator of a Massachusetts-based company that specializes
in the humane and long-term resolution of beaver/human conflicts. To date, he has non-lethally solved more than 1,250 beaver-related flooding problems using flow device technology. Mike got involved with beavers nearly 20 years ago by founding the Pioneer Valley Wetland Volunteers with his wife, Ruth.


 

 

Photo courtesy Mike Callahan
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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.