A Time to Be Grateful: (Stream)banking on Volunteers
From planting native grasses to walking the banks of urban streams, our Green Projects team counts on volunteers to get the job done.
Category: Habitat Restoration
Pond Lily dam removal begins – with benefits for fish and flooding
On November 5, we celebrated the official start of our Pond Lily dam removal project in New Haven with neighbors, scientists and engineers, and government partners.
Hands in the ground: help us build a rain garden
Have you ever wanted to create a Rain Garden, but don’t know how? Now is your chance to learn!
No Muddy Shoes
To say that Sara Kulins, park naturalist at Sunken Meadow, is a phenomenal educator would be an understatement. She has a special way of reaching out to visitors whether young or old.
River herring are down this year. What’s up with that?
A troubling article from the Pew Charitable trusts highlights the need for protection and restoration of river herring from source to sea.
A suburban adventure on the West River & its tributaries
Doused in bug spray, wielding a clipboard, a walking stick, and a machete, it’s early but I’m glad to be outside before the heat sets in and the bugs come out. I’m here with Brian Holdt—a member of CFE/Save the Sound’s Green Projects Team—and we’re on an adventure.
Photo Journal: Sunken Meadow State Park marsh planting
Nearly 60 volunteers and 10 coordinators braved the muddy conditions to plant over 3000 plants over 3 hours. This is part of an ongoing process with the goal of converting 1 acre of mudflats into salt marsh, a feat calling for 12,000 individual cordgrass plants.
Bride Brook: An Alewife Success Story
Nearly 220,000 river herring have made their way up Bride Brook in East Lyme and into their spawning grounds. That’s nearly three times the average from a decade ago! This year’s count continues Bride Brook’s strong numbers and further proves the success of our 2010 restoration project.