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Connecticut Walk Book
East &West
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There are always changes happening on our
trails - relocation's, closures, additions.
To keep abreast of these changes or to report conditions please go to
this page.
Trails Day 2008
June 7th
Trails Day Info and downloadable
Brochure is available here.
Check our Programs.
Join us
for:
Guided Hikes &
Family Nature Programs
Saturday,
5/31; Easy Hike at Highland Park,
Saturday, 5/31;
Cockaponset State Forest
Trail Work
Parties
Saturday,
May
10: Cockaponset Trail, Haddam.
Saturday,
June 7: Orange-blazed multi –use trail, Cockaponset State
Forest, Haddam
Saturday,
June 7: Mohawk Trail, Cornwall.
June 21:
CCC Trail, Natchaug State Forest, Eastford.
or
attend one of
CFPA's
Education Programs
CFPA offers professional development
workshops for formal and informal educators, student programs, scout
badge programs as well as adult & family activities for members and
the public.
Educators
CFPA has issued an RFP
concerning development of Connecticut
Standards Correlation's to Project Learning Tree.
Trained Project Learning
Tree (PLT) Educators are eligible to apply.
Hiking Information: An important
safety reminder concerning hunting season!
Notice: Trail
Changes
QUINNIPIAC TRAIL
- Trail Interruption, Hamden
WILDWOOD TRAIL, Cockaponset State Forest, Haddam
Mattabesett
Trail - Route 154 to
Aircraft Road in Middletown
Metacomet closed in
East Granby
Westwoods
Trails re-open.
Mattabesett
- Note parking restrictions
on River Road in Middletown
A temporary interruption of the Shenipsit
Trail in Vernon
A temporary closure of the Metacomet
Trail in West Hartford
A temporary closure of the Saugatuck
Trail
A 2.50-mile section of the Mattabesett Trail
on Lamentation Mountain is closed
Quinnipiac
Trail relocated around YMCA Camp
Laurel in Hamden
Metacomet
Trail relocated around Shuttle
Meadow Reservoir
Tree Harvest on Mattabesett
Relocation open in Durham
Details
at
Trail News.
In 2002, the United States congress
authorized the National Park Service to conduct a study of these trails
as possible candidates for inclusion in America's National Trails
system.
The NPS Study and recommendations are now available.
Go to www.mmmtrail.org
for more information. You may link from that site
to the NPS site to download the study.
CFPA
Research Notes
CFPA has undertaken a program of
applied research and outreach.
A series of reports of interest to landowners growing forest trees and
those in the timber business are now available.
Just added - Research Note 5 -
'A Strategic Outlook for Connecticut Timber Investors:
Some Observations and Commentary '
View them all here
CFPA's blog
site!
Read the blog (an online journal) of CFPA's
Education Coordinator as she shares her views on nature's replenishment
of the spirit.
Share your thoughts on hiking, outdoor family time and environmental
education.
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