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Dark Skies Survey
We value your input! Please take two minutes and let us know how you feel about stargazing and light pollution in The Last Green Valley. Click here for the Dark Skies Survey link. Thank you!
TLGV Launches New Grant Program to Help Close the Deal
The Last Green Valley, Inc. (TLGV) announces the creation of a new small-grant program, the Heritage Transaction Fund, for non-profits, towns and cities in The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor. The grants will be awarded to projects that will permanently protect significant historic properties…
Calling All Members for Trail Cleanup!
Join TLGV staff and rangers 10 a.m. to noon and 1-3 p.m., April 21, at the Wolf Den Land Trust Otsby Memorial Forest, Opposite 83 East Old Route 6, Hampton, CT. We will team up with Wolf Den Land Trust (WDLT) and members of the…
Visit Bull Hill with TLGV and Wyndham Land Trust
Bull Hill Scenic View Hike: 10 am to 2 pm, April 14, 401 Ravenelle Rd., N. Grosvenordale, CT, Park on the grass shoulder on the east side of the road. Join TLGV Board member Janet Blanchette and Wyndham Land Trust Board member Jeff Stefanik on…
TLGV Volunteer Ranger Geoff McLean Becomes NASA Solar System Ambassador
Geoff McLean, a long-time volunteer Ranger for The Last Green Valley, Inc., was recently accepted into NASA’s prestigious Solar System Ambassador Program. McLean, who has run astronomy programs for TLGV for many years, will now have access to cutting edge NASA research and programs and…
Spring’s Early Arrivers Have Made Their Return
Spring may be here, but at this writing many of our avian signs of spring are still to the south waiting for later departures. May is the month when songbirds seem to abound in New England with courtship songs, displays, territorial disputes and nest building.…
Dark Sky in The Last Green Valley – Light Pollution 101
Join TLGV Ranger Geoff McLean from 1 to 3 p.m., March 31 at The Last Green Valley Office Conference Room, 203 B Main Street (2nd Floor) Danielson, CT, as he explains light pollution. Light pollution is the unwanted intrusion of light into our night sky,…
Time to Spring Outdoors
What a winter it has been here in The Last Green Valley. Winter skated into December with deep-freeze temperatures. January brought a whole new mind-boggling meteorological term, “bomb cyclone.” I didn’t hear a bomb or see a cyclone, though we had some snow and high…
Snowshoe Hare Hop Around Northern Parts of the State
Last month, I ventured to my family’s property in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. Located in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire, Fitzwilliam is about 90 minutes from where I live in Putnam. My grandparents bought the property in 1933, my father took it over in…