Summer Marsh, a past photo contest winner.
Calendar of Events
| Sunday, March 25 | 3-5 pm | Annual Meeting at Old Lyme Senior Center, 26 Town Woods Road. John Himmelman, naturalist and author and illustrator of over 60 children's books, will speak on "Discovering Amphibians," showing slides of frogs, salamanders and other local 'phibs. The general public, including children 10 and over, are invited. Free refreshments served. |
| Friday, March 30 | 6 pm | Seventh Annual Amateur Photo Contest Reception at Old Lyme Senior Center, 26 Town Woods Road. Refreshments. |
| Sunday, April 22 | 10 am - 12 pm |
Earth Day clean up of the OLLT Watch Rock Preserve. |
| Saturday, May 12 | 8 am | International Migratory Bird Day bird walk, co-sponsored by the Town, in the new Town of Old Lyme Ames Preserve with Andy Griswold of Connecticut Audubon. Meet at the bottom of Evergreen Trail at the entrance to the preserve. |
| Saturday, June 2 | National Trails Day. Pam Hine, botanist and lecturer at Connecticut College, will lead a walk at the OLLT Hoffman-Matthiessen-DeGerenday Preserve. |
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| Saturday, July 28 |
Old Lyme Midsummer Festival at Florence Griswold Museum. We will be holding a workshop for our younger friends. |
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| TBD | Swallow Cruise. We will again sponsor our popular evening cruise on the Connecticut River to see the swallows roost. |
Green Darner DragonflyEasement Allows for New Trail
Jennifer Hillhouse recently granted us easements to create hiking trails on her property in the Upper Three Mile River area. The trails will permit hiking from and to adjacent OLLT properties in our Upper Three Mile River Preserve and to a Town of Old Lyme property. Together these properties comprise over 100 acres.
CT Bat Survival Program
The Connecticut DEP needs you to help monitor bats this summer. Learn about DEP's CT Bat Survival Program and how you can play a role in protecting these important members of our local ecosystem by clicking • Here.
Sunday Trail Work Parties
The Trust holds monthly volunteer work parties to maintain the trails in our preserves and manage invasive plants. These are held on the third Sunday of the month at 1 PM. Wear boots, long pants and some type of glasses and bring heavy gloves. Bring tools if you can: e.g. small clippers, hand saw (for cutting tree limbs), loppers.
• Contact us if you are interested in participating.
The Kinsley Twining Scholarship 2011
Old Lyme Land Trust is pleased to be able to provide scholarship support to college students who are graduates of the Lyme-Old Lyme High School and who are pursuing college degrees in environmental science, environmental studies, ecology, conservation biology, or related areas. The Trust will provide one $1,000 scholarship per year for a qualified student on a competitive basis. Students interested in the scholarship should complete the application form available below. All application materials must be submitted no later than August 31, 2011. Awards for 2011 will be announced by October 1.
Download the Kinsley Twining Scholarship Application Form (PDF) • Here.
Photo Contest Sponsored by Local Land Trusts
The land trusts of Lyme, Old Lyme, Essex, Salem, and East Haddam are inviting amateur photographers to focus on our pictorial & scenic countryside and to submit their photos to the Seventh Annual Photo Contest. The great beauty of our towns shows up repeatedly in the great paintings of the American Impressionist movement. Photography is another way to remind ourselves of what we have and to show how important it is to protect and preserve that heritage.
This contest is being funded with the generous support of Lorensen Toyota, Oakley/Wing Group at Smith Barney, Evan Griswold at Coldwell Banker, Ballek Garden Center, Essex Savings, Bank, Murtha Cullina LLP and ChelseaGroton Bank.
Judges will award $100, $50 and $25 cash prizes for each of the following categories:
• Landscapes/Waterscapes
• Plants
• Wildlife
• Cultural/Historic
• Any subject for Young Photographers, below age 15
In addition to the above noted prizes, a special $100 award will be given in memory of our former judge, John G. Mitchell, for the best photograph that promotes and supports our environment and biodiversity.
The three independent judges are William Burt, a naturalist who has won acclaim for his books of wildlife photography: Rare and Elusive Birds of North America, Shadowbirds, and his recently released Marshes: The Disappearing Edens. Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator at the Florence Griswold Museum and a Yale University doctoral candidate in the History of Art. She is also the author of Historical Fictions: Edward Lamson Henry's Paintings of Past and Present. Rudy Wood-Muller, a photographic illustrator and designer. His photos were exhibited at the New York World’s Fair in 1964 and the Rochester Institute of Technology. A group of his photographs have been selected to be part of the Permanent Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The deadline for submitting photographs is January 31, 2012. For questions, entry forms and a copy of the contest rules, send an e-mail to • landtrustphotos@yahoo.com.
To see all of this year’s winning photos click • Here.
Tributaries
Once a year the Trust publishes a newsletter full of information about our properties and activities and the natural world. • Contact us if you wish to supply content or help out.
To view the latest and past issues of Tributaries Click • Here or click the image to the left.