New Haven Land Trust Branches out to Community
Phote Credit: Sarah Tabin.
Elm City residents learned how to identify maple, oak and ash trees at the Pond Lily Nature Preserve on Sunday morning.
The New Haven Land Trust hosted the event “Trees and Trails: A Tree Identification Workshop” to celebrate the opening of Willsher’s Walk, a new trail built in the preserve over the past summer. The Land Trust acquired the 14-acre preserve in 1996, though back then, the preserve still included a dam built on the West River back in 1794. The Land Trust and its partners removed the dam in 2014 to mitigate flooding hazards and allow fish to migrate and have since then readied the preserve for public recreation. Continue reading here.