Our annual Winter Trails Workshop, scheduled for Saturday Feb 4, 9am-3pm, will be held at CFPA headquarters. This indoor workshop provides new trail maintainers with a comprehensive introduction to CFPA's trails program, trail techniques, signage & blazing, trail tools and volunteer management.

This workshop is open to the public but seating is limited. Kindly rsvp to tpeters at ctwoodlands dot org to register.

On January 7^th the Connecticut Forest & Park Association sponsored its 1^st Annual Winter Trails Day at the Association’s headquarters in Rockfall, CT.

The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) released a Study conducted by UConn’s Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis (CCEA) showing that outdoor activities on state lands have an economic benefit of more than $1 billion a year and 9,000 jobs. The study also documented that for every dollar the state spends on the state park system, it receives a return of $38 in economic activity.