Date: Sat March 5, 2022
Time: 1:30-3:00 pm
Place: Banningwood Preserve, 19 Town Street, Lyme CT
Contact Email: reganstacey@gmail.com
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Join our hiking group for elementary school-aged children. Enjoy free play in the forest with friends! We meet up each month from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 pm at Banningwood Preserve. Parents are welcome to stay or drop-off.
The Sapling Club is limited to 15 participants per meet-up. Registration required, please contact Regan Stacey at reganstacey@gmail.com.
The club is organized by volunteer Regan Stacey who has children in the LOL school district.
Environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey currently runs the Tree Collective, a program for teens. She owns Awaken the Forest Within, a mindfulness-based practice that helps [re]connect people to nature for the betterment of themselves and the earth
Join our hiking group for elementary school-aged children. Enjoy free play in the forest with friends! We meet up each month from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 pm at Banningwood Preserve. Parents are welcome to stay or drop-off.
The Sapling Club is limited to 15 participants per meet-up. Registration required, please contact Regan Stacey at reganstacey@gmail.com.
The club is organized by volunteer Regan Stacey who has children in the LOL school district.
Environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey currently runs the Tree Collective, a program for teens. She owns Awaken the Forest Within, a mindfulness-based practice that helps [re]connect people to nature for the betterment of themselves and the earth
Date: Tue March 1, 2022
Time: 9:30 -11:30ish am
Place: Hartman Park Main Entrance, Gungy Rd, Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Wendy Hill
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Hartman Park–Come see what the beavers are up to. About 2 miles. Meet at Hartman Park Main Entrance, Gungy Rd.
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Inclement weather cancels.
Hartman Park–Come see what the beavers are up to. About 2 miles. Meet at Hartman Park Main Entrance, Gungy Rd.
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Date: Sun February 27, 2022
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: ZOOM-See Zoom link below
Contact Email: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
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Three Chimneys
No registration required. See Zoom link below.
Join us for this fascinating Zoom program about Indigenous ceremonial stonelandscapes in Connecticut. Dr. Lucianne Lavin will give an illustrated PowerPoint presentation of various stone structures left behind in our woods with a focus on the built ceremonial stone landscapes of the Indigenous populations that have inhabited New England for more than 10,000 years. While Native American stonework is widely recognized out west and in the south, those in New England have been largely unrecognized. As environmental stewards of our land, private and public, it is important that we learn to identify these structures so we can help protect and preserve them from future destruction.
Lucianne Lavin, PhD, is Director of Research and Collections at the Institute for American Indian Studies, a museum and research and educational center in Washington, CT. She is an anthropologist & archaeologist who has over 40 years of research and field experience in Northeastern archaeology and anthropology.
We will record this program for re-broadcast and post the link at a later date. The program will be moderated by Sue Cope, environmental director of the Lyme Land Trust. To help support the Lyme Land Trust, you may follow THIS LINK TO DONATE.
Topic: Our Hidden Landscapes with Dr. Lucianne Lavin
Time: Feb 27, 2022 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 845 9219 0242
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Dr. Lavin is a founding member of the state’s Native American Heritage Advisory Council and retired editor of the journal of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut, a position she held for 30 years. Dr. Lavin has written over 200 professional publications and technical reports on the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Northeast. Her book, Connecticut’s Indigenous Peoples: What Archaeology, History and Oral Traditions Teach Us about their Communities and Cultures (2013)has won many awards.Her latest book, Dutch and Indigenous Communities in Seventeenth-Century Northeastern North America (SUNY Press, 2021), is an edited volume rated by BookAuthority as one of “16 Best New Archaeology eBooks to Read in 2021.”
Dr. Lavin is a Connecticut born resident, having lived much of her life in the lower Housatonic River Valley. She presently resides in northern Litchfield County.
Three Chimneys
No registration required. See Zoom link below.
Join us for this fascinating Zoom program about Indigenous ceremonial stonelandscapes in Connecticut. Dr. Lucianne Lavin will give an illustrated PowerPoint presentation of various stone structures left behind in our woods with a focus on the built ceremonial stone landscapes of the Indigenous populations that have inhabited New England for more than 10,000 years. While Native American stonework is widely recognized out west and in the south, those in New England have been largely unrecognized. As environmental stewards of our land, private and public, it is important that we learn to identify these structures so we can help protect and preserve them from future destruction.
Lucianne Lavin, PhD, is Director of Research and Collections at the Institute for American Indian Studies, a museum and research and educational center in Washington, CT. She is an anthropologist & archaeologist who has over 40 years of research and field experience in Northeastern archaeology and anthropology.
We will record this program for re-broadcast and post the link at a later date. The program will be moderated by Sue Cope, environmental director of the Lyme Land Trust. To help support the Lyme Land Trust, you may follow THIS LINK TO DONATE.
Topic: Our Hidden Landscapes with Dr. Lucianne Lavin
Time: Feb 27, 2022 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 845 9219 0242
Passcode: 632992
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Meeting ID: 845 9219 0242
Passcode: 632992
Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbF5AXTIOS“
Dr. Lavin is a founding member of the state’s Native American Heritage Advisory Council and retired editor of the journal of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut, a position she held for 30 years. Dr. Lavin has written over 200 professional publications and technical reports on the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Northeast. Her book, Connecticut’s Indigenous Peoples: What Archaeology, History and Oral Traditions Teach Us about their Communities and Cultures (2013)has won many awards.Her latest book, Dutch and Indigenous Communities in Seventeenth-Century Northeastern North America (SUNY Press, 2021), is an edited volume rated by BookAuthority as one of “16 Best New Archaeology eBooks to Read in 2021.”
Dr. Lavin is a Connecticut born resident, having lived much of her life in the lower Housatonic River Valley. She presently resides in northern Litchfield County.
Date: Sat February 26, 2022
Time: 3 pm
Place: Lyme Public Library Community Room, 482 Hamburg Rd. Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
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This program is full.
This program was postponed from Friday, February 25 to Saturday, February 26 due to weather.
Learn about Lavender the opossum and learn why she lived in a house. Lavender’s human friend will read the book out loud and then the children will get to meet Bella and Patch, gentle live opossum ambassadors.
Learn all about our helpful wildlife friends, the opossums, with Pamela and William Lefferts, wildlife rehabilitators with Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue.
Pamela A. Lefferts is a licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator in CT. Retired after many years in the field of education, Pam is the “hands-on” partner and does the critical medical care of the animals, preparing them for release. William H. Lefferts is a licensed CT Rehabilitator and Transporter. Bill retired after teaching secondary school moderate to severe special needs children for over 40 years. Bill helps with socialization and is instrumental in releases.
Always lovers of animals, the Lefferts operated a hobby farm for many years prior to retirement. In 2016 they began the process of becoming Wildlife rehabilitators and in early 2017 they opened Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue. They believe it is the perfect volunteer opportunity for retirees and love to share their passion and knowledge of how and what “rehabbing” entails. Specializing in opossum, the Lefferts especially enjoy sharing knowledge about these misunderstood gentle creatures.
Registration required: openspace@townlyme.org Geared toward elementary-aged children and younger. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
This program is full.
This program was postponed from Friday, February 25 to Saturday, February 26 due to weather.
Learn about Lavender the opossum and learn why she lived in a house. Lavender’s human friend will read the book out loud and then the children will get to meet Bella and Patch, gentle live opossum ambassadors.
Learn all about our helpful wildlife friends, the opossums, with Pamela and William Lefferts, wildlife rehabilitators with Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue.
Pamela A. Lefferts is a licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator in CT. Retired after many years in the field of education, Pam is the “hands-on” partner and does the critical medical care of the animals, preparing them for release. William H. Lefferts is a licensed CT Rehabilitator and Transporter. Bill retired after teaching secondary school moderate to severe special needs children for over 40 years. Bill helps with socialization and is instrumental in releases.
Always lovers of animals, the Lefferts operated a hobby farm for many years prior to retirement. In 2016 they began the process of becoming Wildlife rehabilitators and in early 2017 they opened Ferncroft Wildlife Rescue. They believe it is the perfect volunteer opportunity for retirees and love to share their passion and knowledge of how and what “rehabbing” entails. Specializing in opossum, the Lefferts especially enjoy sharing knowledge about these misunderstood gentle creatures.
Date: Tue February 22, 2022
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve, Brush Hill Rd, Lyme CT
Contact Email: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
Presenter: Tony Irving
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Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve–Notice glacial geology and its effect on colonial agricultural practices. Meet at Brush Hill Rd parking lot entrance.
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Inclement weather cancels.
Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve–Notice glacial geology and its effect on colonial agricultural practices. Meet at Brush Hill Rd parking lot entrance.
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Date: Tue February 15, 2022
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Pleasant Valley Preserve, McIntosh Rd. Lyme Ct
Contact Email: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Sue Cope
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Pleasant Valley Preserve–Lots of habitat types to explore. Meet at MacIntosh Rd Parking area.
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Inclement weather cancels.
Pleasant Valley Preserve–Lots of habitat types to explore. Meet at MacIntosh Rd Parking area.
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Date: Sat February 12, 2022
Time: 11 am-3 pm
Place: Lyme Public Library
Contact Email: staff@lymepl.org View Flyer
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Visit the Lyme Public Library
Saturday, February 12th, 2022
The Community Project that began in February 2020 will conclude.
The Lyme Public Library began its bird house on a pole project with the Lyme Land Trust, Lyme Garden Club and Lyme Parks & Recreation in February 2020, and then the pandemic hit. We have completed several poles and houses and they have been placed around town.
We still have a few houses and poles that need to be completed. Kristen Thornton will guide participants through the artistic process of painting the poles and houses. Participants may drop in from 11 to 3 to participate.
Once the poles are completed, the Lyme Land Trust and the Lyme Garden Club will select the site and install the houses.
For more information, please contact the Lyme Public Library at (860) 434-2272 or staff@lymepl.org
Visit the Lyme Public Library
Saturday, February 12th, 2022
The Community Project that began in February 2020 will conclude.
The Lyme Public Library began its bird house on a pole project with the Lyme Land Trust, Lyme Garden Club and Lyme Parks & Recreation in February 2020, and then the pandemic hit. We have completed several poles and houses and they have been placed around town.
We still have a few houses and poles that need to be completed. Kristen Thornton will guide participants through the artistic process of painting the poles and houses. Participants may drop in from 11 to 3 to participate.
Once the poles are completed, the Lyme Land Trust and the Lyme Garden Club will select the site and install the houses.
For more information, please contact the Lyme Public Library at (860) 434-2272 or staff@lymepl.org
Date: Sat February 12, 2022
Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Place: Register to learn the location. A different preserve each week.
Contact Email: reganstacey@gmail.com
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Join our group for middle school-aged children. Come hike the trails! Every month the hike will be an adventure to explore the natural world at a different preserve. Get out and be curious!
The Hiking Club is a drop-off/pick-up program. If you are a parent who would like to walk the trails during the club time, you are welcome to do so on your own, with other friends/parents, or even bring your dog! The Hiking Club is limited to 10 participants per meet-up.
The club is organized by volunteer Regan Stacey, who has children in the LOL school district.
Environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey currently runs the Tree Collective, a program for teens, and the Middle School Hiking Club. She offers forest bathing and mindful nature connection in the local area as well as co-founding The Forest Therapy School.
Join our group for middle school-aged children. Come hike the trails! Every month the hike will be an adventure to explore the natural world at a different preserve. Get out and be curious!
The Hiking Club is a drop-off/pick-up program. If you are a parent who would like to walk the trails during the club time, you are welcome to do so on your own, with other friends/parents, or even bring your dog! The Hiking Club is limited to 10 participants per meet-up.
The club is organized by volunteer Regan Stacey, who has children in the LOL school district.
Environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey currently runs the Tree Collective, a program for teens, and the Middle School Hiking Club. She offers forest bathing and mindful nature connection in the local area as well as co-founding The Forest Therapy School.
Date: Sat February 12, 2022
Time: 1:30-3:30 pm
Place: Eno Preserve, Mt Archer Rd, Lyme CT
Contact Email: regan@reganstacey.com
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Make a date with nature and share the love. This forest bathing walk is offered around the theme of Love – for oneself, others, and the natural world. Give and receive some love from the forest for Valentine’s Day. Invitations to deepen your connection with nature will be offered along the way. The walk concludes with a wild-foraged tea. The walk is about 1-mile over easy to moderate terrain. Park at Jewett Preserve cemetery entrance- across Mt Archer Road from Eno Preserve entrance.
Registration: $32 ~ includes the program and tea. Lyme Land Trust members receive 15% off with the discount code LLT15.
Forest bathing is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku – taking in the forest atmosphere. As a growing global wellness movement, it is backed by nearly 40 years of scientific research on the holistic benefits of immersing yourself in nature. These benefits include reduced stress and blood pressure, increased creativity and focus, improved mood and sleep, and a boost to immune functions.
Regan Stacey is an artist and environmentalist whose passion is to re-connect humans to nature for the betterment of themselves, their communities, and our planet, Earth. She is also co-founder of The Forest Therapy School, training forest therapy guides to share this work around the world. Locally, she is involved in a number of nature-based organizations and facilitates kids’ clubs through the Lyme Land Trust. You can find out more about her work at reganstacey.com
Happy Valentine’s Day! Make a date with nature and share the love. This forest bathing walk is offered around the theme of Love – for oneself, others, and the natural world. Give and receive some love from the forest for Valentine’s Day. Invitations to deepen your connection with nature will be offered along the way. The walk concludes with a wild-foraged tea. The walk is about 1-mile over easy to moderate terrain. Park at Jewett Preserve cemetery entrance- across Mt Archer Road from Eno Preserve entrance.
Registration: $32 ~ includes the program and tea. Lyme Land Trust members receive 15% off with the discount code LLT15.
Forest bathing is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku – taking in the forest atmosphere. As a growing global wellness movement, it is backed by nearly 40 years of scientific research on the holistic benefits of immersing yourself in nature. These benefits include reduced stress and blood pressure, increased creativity and focus, improved mood and sleep, and a boost to immune functions.
Regan Stacey is an artist and environmentalist whose passion is to re-connect humans to nature for the betterment of themselves, their communities, and our planet, Earth. She is also co-founder of The Forest Therapy School, training forest therapy guides to share this work around the world. Locally, she is involved in a number of nature-based organizations and facilitates kids’ clubs through the Lyme Land Trust. You can find out more about her work at reganstacey.com
Date: Tue February 8, 2022
Time: 9:30 am -11:30ish am
Place: Johnston parking lot, Rte 82, Lyme CT
Contact Email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Kristina White
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Johnston and Pleasant Valley Preserves–Hike through Johnston to overlook and then proceed to the Pleasant Valley overlook and back. Lots of up and down hills. 3-4 miles. 2 hours. Strenuous pace hike. Park at the Johnston Preserve entrance on Rte 82.
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Inclement weather cancels.
Johnston and Pleasant Valley Preserves–Hike through Johnston to overlook and then proceed to the Pleasant Valley overlook and back. Lots of up and down hills. 3-4 miles. 2 hours. Strenuous pace hike. Park at the Johnston Preserve entrance on Rte 82.
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Inclement weather cancels.
Ryan Quinn grew up in Lyme and graduated from Lyme-Old Lyme High school. After moving away for college and a career in education, he returned to the area in 2015 with his wife Baylee Drown to start a vegetable farm. In 2019 they were able to become Lyme landowners by purchasing what is now known as Long Table Farm. Prior to being a full time farmer Quinn has worked as a sailor, handyman, science teacher and outdoor educator.
“Moving back to Lyme gave me new appreciation for how the blend of community, open space, and ecology that thrive here have influenced my life. Lyme Land Trust’s mission to preserve and promote these features for the public good is near and dear to my heart. The Lyme Land Trust is one of the institutions that makes Lyme a special place to live.”
Ryan Quinn
Jim’s primary responsibility is to oversee stewardship of the 3130 acres spread across 112 parcels that are owned or managed by LLT. He comes to us with a variety of experiences spanning ecological research and restoration, natural resource and sanctuary management, and environmental education. Improving the outlook for native biodiversity has always motivated Jim, whether by working with people, land, or preferably both at the same time. Most recently he served as conservation biologist at The Connecticut Audubon Society. He holds a BS degree in wildlife and fisheries biology from the University of Vermont and a MS degree in conservation biology from the State University of New York in Syracuse. Jim lives in Middletown.
“It is a giant honor to have this opportunity to help build on the substantial success of the Trust in a part of the world as special as Lyme.”
Jim Arrigoni
Wendy has lived in Lyme since 1982. Her career has encompassed a combination of art and the natural sciences; as a medical illustrator working at Yale University Medical School for 30 years, and a professor of art at Middlesex Community College for 10 years. She is currently the Open Space Coordinator for the Town of Lyme and co-chair of the Lyme Pollinator Pathway. “I love the fact that the LLCT seeks to encourage the appreciation of the natural world by exposing people to the wonders of nature through education, guided walks and other opportunities. I believe that preserving the land in its most natural state is very important to the physical and mental health of our planet. I love to learn and there is so much to learn in the woods of Lyme, about the natural world, history and beauty.”
Wendy Hill
Tony has lived in Lyme since 1986. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Management and co-founder of Ecological and Environmental Consulting Services (EECOS) specializing in forest ecology and land use management.
“The Land Trust is critical for the protection of our ecologically diverse and unique near-coastal and riverine landscape, unmatched in the northeast.”
Anthony Irving
Kristina grew up in Old Lyme and has made Lyme her home since 2004. She held numerous jobs in the corporate world and most recently was the Administrative Director of Musical Masterworks, a nonprofit chamber music series in Old Lyme. As the Executive Director, she is responsible for leading the LLCT as it relates to the strategic direction and overall management of the organization. She identifies and implements short-and long-term strategic goals and is accountable to the Board of Directors for achieving those goals.
“The Land Trust protects land for perpetuity, provides outdoor recreation, and educates the surrounding community of the importance of conservation and environmental sustainability. We strive to be an example for other land trusts to follow.”
Learn about Lavender the opossum and learn why she lived in a house. Lavender’s human friend will read the book out loud and then the children will get to meet Bella and Patch, gentle live opossum ambassadors.
