Newsletters
Spring 2023 CLC Newsletter
Marauders In Our Midst
In past centuries, horticulturalists traveled the world in search of new and exotic plants and brought home specimens for their gardens and for scientific, medicinal and botanical study. That same desire for novelty and variety in our garden plantings continues today. Horticulturalists, nursery owners and gardeners are on the lookout for interesting plant species from other countries, choosing them for their beauty, their exotic appeal, their environmental value and even their medicinal use. Importing plants is a major business today.
Summer 2019 CLC Newsletter
The Deer Hill Property Acquisition
The Colebrook Land Conservancy is delighted to announce that it has completed the purchase of 74 acres of forestland at the lower end of Deer Hill Road, formerly owned by Richard Chase and his family. In order to help cover the cost of the purchase, the Conservancy wrote successful grant proposals that were awarded funding from the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP)…
Spring 2019 CLC Newsletter
The Call of the Wild
When we were children, we headed out after school nearly every day to play in the woods and fields. Instinctively, we felt carefree and happy…
Fall 2018:
The Prickly Lives of Porcupines
North American porcupines
(Erithizon dorsatum Linnaeus) are often seen in this area, lumbering along…
Spring 2018:
Vernal Pools
Spring is officially here, and change is in the air. Mounds of snow are disappearing, crocuses and daffodils are…
Fall 2017:
Kitchel Wilderness
Colebrook is defined by its forested landscape, but it’s more than just “woods”. If you peek behind the trees …
Spring 2017:
CLC Celebrates 30 Years
Not long after the CLC had successfully purchased the Hale Farm, another significant opportunity arose…
Summer 2016:
It takes a Village
In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Colebrook Land Conservancy…
Spring 2015:
Saving Wildlife
In April 24th, the Colebrook Land Conservancy held its annual potluck dinner and talk, this year on Animal
Rehabilitation…
Fall 2014:
Hidden in Plain Sight
Although we live surrounded by wilderness in the northern Litchfield Hills, …
Spring 2014:
In Memory of Walter Peterson
Pete Loved the countryside. His daughter Beverly remembers
one of his favorite drives was along Sandy Brook where they…
The Colebrook Land Conservancy
Post Office Box 90
Colebrook, Connecticut 06021
info@colebrooklandconservancy.org
Our Mission
Preserve and conserve the special and unique characteristics of Colebrook—rural, historic and scenic—using accepted land conservation techniques and education in cooperation with the Town, the community and other groups.