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SUMMARY:Awards and Grants Celebration
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”flat” shape=”square” color=”violet” size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.lglforms.com%2Fform_engine%2Fs%2FL8g01dKYtG34DdEQaqw2hQ%3Ft%3D1599675870||target:%20_blank|”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601474316151{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The 2020 Awards and Grants Celebration is an on-line event honoring recipients of the 2020 Environmental Champion Awards and highlighting achievements of 2020 Annual Environmental Grant recipients. All are welcome join this entertaining virtual event. \nEast Haddam Land Trust and Margaret Minerwill receive Tom ODell Distinguished Service Awards\, honoring long-term accomplishments in environmental conservation and preservation. Certificates of Appreciation will be presented to ARTFARM\, Chantal Foster with Middlesex Land Trust\, and Nathan Botting. \n  \nFeatured video clips during the event to include: \nCircus for a Fragile Planet by ARTFARM\nInterview with Chantal Foster\nTrail work by Nathan Botting\nHistory of East Haddam Land Trust\nClimate Change – AdaptCT\nFarm to Table Camp – Valley Shore YMCA \n  \nWe will also be raising a toast to all the award recipients and grantees. BYOB! \nParticipants will be in view-only mode for this celebration. Cozy up with a bowl of popcorn or your favorite snack and enjoy the show! \n  \nRSVP is required to gain access to the on-line link. Please RSVP by 3pm on the day of the event to ensure you receive the link in time.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”flat” shape=”square” color=”violet” size=”lg” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.lglforms.com%2Fform_engine%2Fs%2FL8g01dKYtG34DdEQaqw2hQ%3Ft%3D1599675870||target:%20_blank|” css=”.vc_custom_1599675920667{background-color: #01baef !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1599235878420{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1599670431956{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Additional information:\nEnvironmental Champion Awards Program\n2020 Awardees\nAnnual Environmental Grants Program\n2020 Grant Recipients[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://rockfallfoundation.org/event/awards-and-grants-celebration/
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SUMMARY:Rockfall Forest Invasive Plants Work Party
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601588023096{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]A team of volunteers has committed to restoring the health of Rockfall Forest\, adjacent to Wadsworth Falls State Park\, by removing invasive plants that are overgrowing. More volunteers are needed to help clear invasives so that native trees\, and with them the native fauna\, can thrive. Bring clippers and gloves if you have them; a limited supply will be available. Tick repellant suggested. Meet at 9:45 in the Big Falls parking lot\, 25 Cherry Hill Rd. in Rockfall. Safety protocol for COVID-19 will be enforced. To ensure compliance\, volunteers are required to pre-register. Please fill out this registration and waiver form here before arriving. Heavy rain cancels. Thank you for your help![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register Now” color=”success” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfy-IMnf1_zmCq1FcewJc63pGCvjV6mD4wOhXcvIOEGc5MXlA%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link||target:%20_blank|”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601588037006{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]What is Rockfall Forest? \nThe trails in Rockfall Forest provide an important entry point to Wadsworth Falls State Park\, connecting the orange Main Trail from Cherry Hill Road into the Park\, and offering the yellow Laurel Grove Brook Trail. The history of these two properties link Colonel Wadsworth’s Legacy and The Rockfall Foundation. From potato farm to wild forest to outdoor classroom\, Rockfall Forest has a story to tell. \nColonel Clarence S. Wadsworth founded Rockfall Corporation (now The Rockfall Foundation) in 1935 “to establish\, maintain\, and care for parks and forest or wild land for the use and enjoyment of the public”. One of the Colonel’s land holdings was a large plot in Middlefield and Rockfall. He entrusted the land to Rockfall Corporation\, with a small section known as “The Captain’s Field” retained for use by his son\, Seymour Wadsworth. In 1941\, after Colonel Wadsworth’s death\, the largest portion of the land\, 267 acres known as the “Great Falls Region” was donated by Rockfall Corporation to the Connecticut State Park and Forest commission. The State still maintains this land\, the present day Wadsworth Falls State Park. Adjacent Captain’s Field\, in the meantime\, was leased out by Seymour and used for potato farming in the 1940s and 1950s. After Seymour’s passing\, Captain’s Field was transferred to Rockfall Corporation for preservation. To this day\, The Rockfall Foundation continues to protect these remaining 16 acres of land\, which has reverted to forest since farming was abandoned. No longer a field\, The Rockfall Foundation adopted the name Rockfall Forest in 2020. \nPlease join our efforts to clear invasive plants in Rockfall Forest so that native trees\, and with them the native fauna\, can thrive. These efforts will also help clear space to use the forest as an outdoor classroom.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://rockfallfoundation.org/event/rockfall-forest-invasive-plants-work-party-3/
LOCATION:Rockfall Forest via Wadsworth Falls Parking Lot\, Waterfall parking\, 25 Cherry Hill Rd.\, Middletown\, CT\, 06457
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SUMMARY:Meet Your Greens: Backyard Bugs with Brian Stewart
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601589140558{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Meet Your Greens is back! For one very special session\, we will be meeting outdoors on Thursday\, October 15 at 5:30 at Wadsworth Mansion. Our guest speaker is Brian Stewart. He will be introducing us to the tremendous diversity of insects you can find in your own backyard. With beautiful photographs taken on his own quarter acre in Middletown\, come explore the intriguing world of insects. He has catalogued 430+ insect species so far\, with over a hundred more that have not yet been identified. Walk away with an understanding of your role as a steward for these creatures whose “right” it is to be there. \nWe will meet on the back patio at the mansion under an open-sided tent. Appropriately spaced chairs will be provided for the presentation. Plan to arrive around 5:30\, with the speaker beginning at 5:45. Bring your own food and drink. Free to participate. Safety protocol for COVID-19 will be adhered to. Pre-registration is required. Please fill out this registration form before arriving. \nBrian Stewart is a professor of physics and a member of the College of the Environment at Wesleyan University. After working with entomologist Michael Oliver at the Middletown Bioblitz in 2007\, he started his own photographic insect collection. He began documenting the insects on his own property with the intention of expanding his territory thereafter; that’s still the plan\, but after more than a decade\, he doesn’t find himself close to moving on yet. \nPictured: Asiatic Lady Beetle[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register Now” color=”warning” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSe5Hif17NY3FCGS43JLDZUjQdgU-Z-18oApnbOf_m_PNCmC9A%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601587747628{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]For those of you not familiar with Meet Your Greens: Middletown Green Drinks\, this monthly event (on temporary hiatus due to the pandemic) provides networking opportunities for anyone who is interested in making connections and exchanging news about emerging environmental issues to help keep Lower Connecticut River Valley communities green. An official location of Green Drinks International\, this informal monthly gathering of people drawn from the community\, nonprofit groups and the business world offers time to brainstorm ideas and plant seeds for collaboration. All are welcome and there is no admission fee\, unless otherwise noted. For more information\, please visit our website.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://rockfallfoundation.org/event/meet-your-greens-backyard-bugs-with-brian-stewart/
LOCATION:Wadsworth Mansion\, 421 Wadsworth Street\, Middletown\, CT\, 06457
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SUMMARY:Rockfall Forest Invasive Plants Work Party
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601588280362{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]A team of volunteers has committed to restoring the health of Rockfall Forest\, adjacent to Wadsworth Falls State Park\, by removing invasive plants that are overgrowing. More volunteers are needed to help clear invasives so that native trees\, and with them the native fauna\, can thrive. Bring clippers and gloves if you have them; a limited supply will be available. Tick repellant suggested. Meet at 12:45 in the Big Falls parking lot\, 25 Cherry Hill Rd. in Rockfall. Safety protocol for COVID-19 will be enforced. To ensure compliance\, volunteers are required to pre-register. Please fill out this registration and waiver form here before arriving. Heavy rain cancels. Thank you for your help![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register Now” color=”success” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLScK_NXUuaTsV5Ab1nJ48IWgexxjbN0mXx7ziinYNvENKPoUsw%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601588296602{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]What is Rockfall Forest? \nThe trails in Rockfall Forest provide an important entry point to Wadsworth Falls State Park\, connecting the orange Main Trail from Cherry Hill Road into the Park\, and offering the yellow Laurel Grove Brook Trail. The history of these two properties link Colonel Wadsworth’s Legacy and The Rockfall Foundation. From potato farm to wild forest to outdoor classroom\, Rockfall Forest has a story to tell. \nColonel Clarence S. Wadsworth founded Rockfall Corporation (now The Rockfall Foundation) in 1935 “to establish\, maintain\, and care for parks and forest or wild land for the use and enjoyment of the public”. One of the Colonel’s land holdings was a large plot in Middlefield and Rockfall. He entrusted the land to Rockfall Corporation\, with a small section known as “The Captain’s Field” retained for use by his son\, Seymour Wadsworth. In 1941\, after Colonel Wadsworth’s death\, the largest portion of the land\, 267 acres known as the “Great Falls Region” was donated by Rockfall Corporation to the Connecticut State Park and Forest commission. The State still maintains this land\, the present day Wadsworth Falls State Park. Adjacent Captain’s Field\, in the meantime\, was leased out by Seymour and used for potato farming in the 1940s and 1950s. After Seymour’s passing\, Captain’s Field was transferred to Rockfall Corporation for preservation. To this day\, The Rockfall Foundation continues to protect these remaining 16 acres of land\, which has reverted to forest since farming was abandoned. No longer a field\, The Rockfall Foundation adopted the name Rockfall Forest in 2020. \nPlease join our efforts to clear invasive plants in Rockfall Forest so that native trees\, and with them the native fauna\, can thrive. These efforts will also help clear space to use the forest as an outdoor classroom.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://rockfallfoundation.org/event/rockfall-forest-invasive-plants-work-party-4/
LOCATION:Rockfall Forest via Wadsworth Falls Parking Lot\, Waterfall parking\, 25 Cherry Hill Rd.\, Middletown\, CT\, 06457
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SUMMARY:Trail Clean-Up
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1602103067940{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Pitch-in and help clean up the park and trails! In partnership with Cinder + Salt\, we’ll supply all the gear you need including trash grabbers\, buckets & gloves. This event is kid friendly. All participants who register by Oct 19th will receive a free volunteer t-shirt. Please click the website link below for further details and to register for your free t-shirt.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://rockfallfoundation.org/event/trail-clean-up/
LOCATION:Wadsworth Falls State Park\, 721 Wadsworth St.\, Middletown\, CT\, 06457
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