WELCOME TO THE BRANFORD LAND TRUST

Welcome to the Branford Land Trust website, where we invite you to help PROTECT, LEARN about and EXPLORE Branford’s open space and diverse natural features.

Community Event: Living Wisely & Well on Planet Earth

The Branford Land Trust’s preserves are already being affected by climate change. Learn what you can do to help slow the process at this Living Wisely & Well on Planet Earth lecture series.

Halt! Who goes there? Animal Tracking Classes

Branford Land Trust’s Popular Winter Animal Tracking Classes Halt! Who goes there? Find out during the Branford Land Trust’s popular Animal Tracking classes, led enthusiastically by naturalists Tom Cleveland and Chris Woerner each winter. Come find out how to recognize animal footprints and other signs of their passage through the woods during two Animal Tracking […]

BLT Seeks Proposals to Rehome Historic Pine Orchard Farm Structures

by Pam Johnson, Senior Staff Writer, Shore Publishing/Zip06 Published January 13, 2020 In December, Branford Land Trust (BLT) received an early Christmas gift from descendents of the notable Alden M. Young Family: 3.74 acres of land connected to the Young’s Pond Preserve. The land came with two well-maintained historic structures — a beautiful circa 1912 […]

A Pundit on the Trail

By Jonathan Katz In a war-torn election season, punditry is everywhere. Pundits prattle and pontificate about politics. It’s what they do. Or do they? The first Pundits were Hindus from the Tibetan border, who agreed to serve as British spies, helping to map the Himalayas in Tibet. They took these risks for British intelligence and […]

Bee There or Bee Square: Branford Land Trust January Lecture Features Pollinators

Join the Branford Land Trust for an informative and important lecture on Connecticut’s most important pollinator — bees — presented by Dr. Kimberly Stoner, Entomologist, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. The first event in this Winter Lecture Series will take place on Tuesday, January 28, 7:00 p.m., at the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library in Stony Creek […]

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