Conservation

Freedom Lawn Campaign

Organization: 
Watershed Partnership, Inc
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Amount: 
19 000.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support the continuation and extension of the successful Safe Grounds Campaign in efforts to reduce non-point source pollution from lawn pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.

Landscape Structure & Dynamics in Lower Quinnipiac River Marshes

Organization: 
University of New Haven
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Amount: 
23 135.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support an environmental study assessing relationships among habitat structure, marsh topography, ecological dynamics and potential conservation initiatives in the Lower Quinnipiac River marshes.

The Clean Rivers Project w/Plainville Conservation Commission

Organization: 
Farmington River Watershed Association, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Amount: 
2 000.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support implementation of informational and educational efforts and activities advocating for pesticide use reduction. These efforts will focus on the 80 property owners whose properties abut the Quinnipiac River in Plainville, CT. The activities will include 2 river clean-ups, coordination of a fishing derby, Earth Day Extravaganza, promotion and advocacy of Freedom Lawn Initiative, and a Tomasso Nature Park clean-up. (see grant notes)

Short Courses

Organization: 
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Amount: 
8 260.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support the continuation of short courses concerning river processes to local members of the conservation/inlan wetland commissions and environmental activists.

Organic Land Care Program

Organization: 
Connecticut Northeast Organic Farmers Organization
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Amount: 
6 530.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support the implementation of an intensive workshops to teach 100 Connecticut school groundskeepers how to mamnage fields without the use of harmful pesticides.

Safe Grounds Campaign

Organization: 
Watershed Partnership, Inc
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Amount: 
18 000.00
Description: 
To support the Safe Grounds Campaign which helps reduce non-point source pollution from lawn pesticides and synthetic fertilizers in the Quinnipiac River watershed.  

Two day training program for local land use leaders

Organization: 
Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA)
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Amount: 
7 500.00
Description: 
To support a two-day training program for local land use leaders to educate them on the scope of their jurisdiction, the flexibility they have under the law, tools for natural resource and watershed protection and collaborative techniques including consensus building, facilitated decision-making, community participation and effective meetings management.

Homeowner workshops on organic land care

Organization: 
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Amount: 
5 000.00
Description: 
To support homeowner workshops and outreach and to initiate data analysis and focus group research to design a program to best serve homeowners who want organic land care for their properties.

Definition and granting of land easements

Organization: 
North Haven Trail Association
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Amount: 
3 000.00
Description: 
To support consultant/professional work required to support the definition and granting of land easements from private property owners along the river where the intended route of the trail is located.

Homeowner Workshops

Organization: 
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Amount: 
6 000.00
Description: 
To support the continuation of homeowner workshops which will initiate educational outreach on organic land care to inland/wetland and conservation commissions, including installation and assisting in the development and related outreach of an online turf forum geared towards Connecticut school groundskeepers.

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