Exploring The Last Green Valley: Reading the forested landscape
Exploring The Last Green Valley: Reading the forested landscape The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor is more than 1,000 square miles with 707,000 acres of land. Our region is 77 percent undeveloped land with 67.1 percent forested land including 12.3 percent coniferous forest (pine…
Exploring the Last Green Valley: Optical Heritage Museum keeps history of American Optical alive
Exploring the Last Green Valley: Optical Heritage Museum keeps history of American Optical alive The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor was and is home to many innovative and important companies. Beginning in the 19th century, with advances in waterpower technology and the birth of…
TLGV Member Program – Full Moon Hike at Trail Wood
TLGV members are invited to join Chief Ranger Bill on Friday, February 10, 2017, from 7 – 9 pm, for a Full Moon Hike at the Connecticut Audubon Society at Trail Wood – The Edwin Way Teale Memorial Sanctuary. Trail Wood is a beautiful 168…
Cleanup Funds Available from The Last Green Valley
TLGV is once again looking for people who care about this beautiful place we call home. TLGV will provide funds to nonprofit organizations and municipal, regional, state or federal agencies that sponsor a 2017 land or river cleanup in the region. Last year, 1,559 volunteers…
CANCELLED- TLGV Ranger Marcy’s Acorn Adventure – Choo-Choo-Choose the Brimfield Trolley Trail
Update for our Sunday 2/19 Acorn Adventure. Cancelled due to a snow-filled parking lot. So – make sure you go out and do something! Ranger Marcy B. Putnamaniac Dawley will be waiting for your reports! Lots of eagles have been flying lately, so some ideas…
Exploring The Last Green Valley: ‘Wandering Through Winter’ with Teale
Exploring The Last Green Valley: ‘Wandering Through Winter’ with Teale Winter seems like the perfect time to re-tell the story of one of The Last Green Valley’s most gifted writers. If you enjoy natural history, travel, the fascinating turn of the seasons and the lyrical…
The Last Green Valley is Seeking Spring Outdoors Walk Leaders!
The Last Green Valley is Seeking Spring Outdoors Walk Leaders! The Last Green Valley, Inc. (TLGV) is coordinating its second annual Spring Outdoors and is looking for walk and event leaders. Spring Outdoors launched in 2016 and was a great success. In 2017, Spring Outdoors…
Exploring The Last Green Valley: Wood duck conservation at work in Sprague, Connecticut
Exploring The Last Green Valley: Wood duck conservation at work in Sprague, Connecticut From time to time, readers of this column will send me emails remarking about a recent column or providing me with information about our region’s natural and cultural resources. One reader that…
Exploring The Last Green Valley: How to catch a snowflake
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.” – William Hamilton Gibson Wintertime tends to bring out the kid in me, or rather brings back so many snowy winter memories from long ago that remind me of when I…