Boston Flora

Tag: Swamps

  • Saturday, November 21 – Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation Conservation Walk

    Sheriff’s Meadow holds its series of public walks, in each month of the year, on properties that they own or hold conservation restrictions over. Pre-registration is required as space may be limited.  The Saturday, November 21 walk will be through the Edgartown Pond Lot in Edgartown. Visit http://www.sheriffsmeadow.org site for starting times, directions and other information.  You may also telephone 508-693-5207.  Another walk, in Chappaquiddick, will take place on Saturday, December 19.

    The mission of Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is to conserve, administer and manage natural habitats for wildlife, and all other lands that represent the beautiful, rural, natural character of Martha’s Vineyard.  Henry Beetle Hough and Elizabeth Bowie Hough founded Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation to conserve land that no other organization would. Editor of the Vineyard Gazette, Henry and Elizabeth lived on Pierce Lane in Edgartown.  Overseen by a Board of Directors, Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation now employs six year-round and two seasonal staff. The Foundation’s properties represent all the major Martha’s Vineyard habitats: beaches, sand dunes, coastal ponds, wooded moraine, forests, swamps, marshes, agricultural lands, meadows and more.

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  • Sunday, July 26, 10:00 a.m. – Botanize Hartman Recreational Park

    Field trips are a long standing tradition of the Connecticut Botanical Society.  They provide an opportunity to learn about plants and habitats from some the area’s most knowledgeable botanists, and an opportunity to share your own knowledge with others.  The trips also add to the bank of knowledge of New England flora.  On each field trip. a list is made of all plant species identified, and this list becomes part of the Society’s records.  The Connecticut Botanical Society encourages the gardening public to participate in the botanizing of Hartman Recreational Park in Lyme, Connecticut, led by Carol Lemmon, President of CBS.  This 300-acre park with 10 miles of trails meanders through swamps, marshes, around a beaver pond, under power line cuts, and unusual rock formations.  There are archeological sites dating from the American Revolution.  For field trips, wear sturdy footwear and bring a lunch.  Sunscreen and insect repellant are also recommended.  For plant identification, you may wish to bring a field guide(s), a hand lens, and a small notebook.  Familiarity with plant taxonomy is helpful, but not required.  No pre-registration is required.  Free to CBS members.  Non-members must pay a $15 fee, which includes a one-year membership in CBS, and entitles you to join future trips this season at no additional cost.  For more information and directions, call 203-484-0134, or log on to www.ct-botanical-society.org.