Not just a walk in the woods, the Branford Land Trust’s popular Animal Tracking classes are 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 Classes scheduled for Saturday, January 26 and […]
Note Second Saturday date. We will work at the Goss Tract cleaning along the Totoket Road edge of the preserve, removing litter and invasive plants, and trimming the trails as needed. Meet at 9:00 am at the Tilcon parking lot at the west end of the Pine Orchard/Stony Creek trolley trail. Bring work gloves, mattocks, […]
A demonstration organized by a Branford High School student is planned for noon Friday, March 15, on the town green. The demonstration is to protest government inactivity on global change and to show solidarity with Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish high school student who started the #FridaysForFuture movement. Greta has missed school almost every […]
Branford Land Trust Board meetings are open to the public.
Note first Saturday date! We will return to the Jenny Vedder Preserve to clean up chronic party sites, do any needed trail maintenance, and continue the removal of invasive plants, especially a large patch of garlic mustard, which should be leafing out but not yet starting to flower. Meet at 9:00 am at the pull-off […]
Branford Land Trust Board meetings are open to the public.
The Branford Land Trust and the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) are co-hosting a public meeting on the Long Island Sound Blue Plan. The Blue Plan is a new paradigm in Connecticut’s management of Long Island Sound that seeks to identify and protect Significant Human Use Areas and Ecologically Significant Areas, as […]
Join other volunteers to clean up the littered location in Town that bugs you the most! Don't know where to start? Pick up trash bags on the Branford Green beginning at 9:00 AM on Saturday, April 27 and get directions to the best (worst?) locations in town. Or grab your own trash bags and head […]
Local birder Chris Woerner leads these popular walks along the Stony Creek Trolley Trail and into the BLT’s Vedder property. You'll learn to identify birds by sight and by song. Mostly flat terrain with one steep, rocky hill. Choose either day or come to both! Families and children welcome, but no dogs, please. Meet in […]
Local birder Chris Woerner leads these popular walks along the Stony Creek Trolley Trail and into the BLT’s Vedder property. You'll learn to identify birds by sight and by song. Mostly flat terrain with one steep, rocky hill. Choose either day or come to both! Families and children welcome, but no dogs, please. Meet in […]