| "Meriden's Hiking Trails" A limited number of a special reprinting will be available at the Daffodil Festival or at our meeting or other events. Meriden Land Trust T-shirts, hats and trail guides are available for $15.00 at meetings, events or by contacting us by e-mail. |
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| Board of Directors 2008-2009 Dwight Needels - President/Director Roger Kemp - Vice President/Director Mary Ellen Mordarski - Secretary/Director Susan Weronik - Treasurer/Director Phil Ashton - Director Bill Revill - Director |
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| Click here for information on the vandalism at Ice Pond Brook, the Dee Avenue & Bruce Lane property in South Meriden. |
| Meriden Land Trust P.O. Box 1745 Meriden CT 06450 |
| since 1991.. |
| The Meriden Land Trust Lecture series: for information on our past lectures, click here. |
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| If you would like to receive e-mails about our meetings and events, please let us know and we'll be happy to add you to our e-mailing list. |
| ENDING SHORTLY: We have been offered a time-limited dollar for dollar matching donation on all new memberships, both individual and organizational, donations and other fund raising sources, such a t-shirt & hat sales, the Westbrook Lobster dinner fundraiser, the QRWA tag sale. We depend on your support so that we may continue our work in preserving the open spaces in our home town. If you are considering membership or making a donation, this is the time to stretch your dollar. You may click below for a membership form. The Meriden Land Trust is a 501(c)(3) organization. |
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| What we are about: While Meriden is known primarily as a small industrial city with a large shopping mall in the center of Connecticut, it is also rightfully known for it unique mix of urban and rural characteristics. With its spectacular hanging hills, trap rock ridges, extensive trail system, farmland, lakes and streams, Meriden has much natural beauty to preserve. Development continues to encroach on Meriden's remaining open spaces as it does throughout central Connecticut. Founded in 1991, the Meriden Land Trust was established to help preserve these fragile resources in our community. Open space and habitat preservation are essential to the quality of all our lives. The land the Meriden Land Trust conserves will remain forever open and free from development; it will remain open to those who love the land, and to the wildlife that relies upon it. The Meriden Land Trust is an all-volunteer non-profit organization devoted to protecting the natural environment of Meriden. We strive to help maintain the delicate balance between the rural and urban aspects of our community. The Meriden Land Trust provides an effective way to preserve Meriden’s natural assets which might otherwise disappear. As a private, local, nonprofit service organization, we can operate in areas where it might be impractical for the town or national organizations to act. We can and we have acquired pockets of open space of great value to the wildlife of Meriden.. As of this writing the Meriden Land Trust owns and protects five separate properties in Meriden. While these are all relatively small properties, two are in residential neighborhoods on the east side of town and add to the quality of life in those areas. Our third property is also on the east side of town in a less densely populated residential area. The Ice Pond Brook property in South Meriden, is out biggest piece. These properties will never be developed and will forever remain in their natural state. All of our current properties were donated to the Meriden Land Trust to insure that these pieces of land remain protected and undeveloped. In May of 2002, the Meriden Land Trust and the Augusta Curtis Cultural Center began what has become an annual joint venture in presenting speakers knowledgeable about the natural history such as the geology and archeology of our area. This highly successful series has attracted a growing audience each year and helps us reach out to the Meriden community. Watch for details on our next benefit event! Your involvement and support insures that we can continue our work in protecting the natural habitat of Meriden. Together, we can all help maintain Meriden's balance between the rural and urban aspects of our community. Please join us! We do need your support. |
| be sure to visit our Flickr photo site |
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| We were delighted to have Peter Picone give a powerpoint slide show and lecture entitled "Wildlife Is My Passion." This talk was presented at the Augusta Curtis Cultural Center on October 6, 2009. Check back to see what our next event will be! For more information about Mr. Picone's background and published works, please go to www.wildlifepassion.net. |
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| URGENT: We are canceling our regularly scheduled meeting of the Meriden Land Trust on Wednesday, January 20th and are asking everybody who has any interest in Meriden's natural environment to instead attend a presentation on Streamflow Regulations at the Wallingford Public Library at 7:00 p.m. It is extremely important that we show that residents who live in the Quinnipiac River watershed care deeply about the health of our river, and filling the Charlotte Collins Room to capacity is one way to do that. If you have specific questions, come prepared to ask them. Even if you don't speak, come show support by your presence! |
| Our new Meriden Land Trust baseball hats are in and are available in green, khaki and gray for the promotional price of only $10.00. Just in time for the holidays... |
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| check out our new hats >>>! |
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