BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//New Canaan Land Trust - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://newcanaanlandtrust.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for New Canaan Land Trust REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20190101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231102T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231102T203000 DTSTAMP:20260524T070451 CREATED:20231016T190946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T190947Z UID:5763-1698949800-1698957000@newcanaanlandtrust.org SUMMARY:New Canaan Land Trust Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:This year\, we’re excited to host Mary Ellen Lemay\, Landowner Engagement Director at the Aspetuck Land Trust. She will discuss the Aspetuck Land Trust Green Corridor Project which aims to increase the scale and rate of land conservation within the Aspetuck footprint. This project will hopefully become a model for communities in our region to balance conservation efforts with economic and environmental health throughout the urban\, suburban\, and rural settings across Fairfield County. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mary Ellen Lemay is the Landowner Engagement Director for the Aspetuck Land Trust (Westport\, Fairfield\, Weston\, Easton\, Monroe CT)\, Pollinator Pathway Facilitator for the Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership\, and also a member of the Connecticut Native Plants Working Group. \nShe earned her BS in Biology from Fairfield University\, her MBA from Fordham University\, and her Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University School of The Environment. \nShe is the former Trumbull Land Trust president and currently the Chairwoman of the Trumbull Conservation Commission\, a CT DEEP Certified Master Wildlife Conservationist\, and on the Board of the Merritt Parkway Conservancy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register Here URL:https://newcanaanlandtrust.org/events/annualmeeting2023/ LOCATION:New Canaan Nature Center\, 144 Oenoke Ridge\, New Canaan\, CT\, 06840\, United States CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://newcanaanlandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Last-Saturdays-on-the-Trail.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T200000 DTSTAMP:20260524T070451 CREATED:20221028T183839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T185031Z UID:5347-1668537000-1668542400@newcanaanlandtrust.org SUMMARY:New Canaan Land Trust’s Annual Membership Meeting DESCRIPTION:New Canaan Land Trust invites its members and the community to its annual membership meeting on Tuesday\, November 15th at 6:30 pm. The Land Trust’s annual meeting offers residents the opportunity to learn more about the 55-year organization and meet like-minded members of the community. Comprised of almost 400 acres\, the conservation organization plays an important role in New Canaan in fulfilling its three-part mission of protecting open space\, caring for and restoring habitat on its properties\, and engaging the community. \nThe meeting will feature guest-speaker Sarah Finnie Robinson\, a New Canaan resident and the founding director of The 51 Percent Project\, a climate communication initiative based at Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability. Robinson holds faculty appointments at Boston University’s College of Communication and at the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience & Environmental Health. Following a career in mainstream media (The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, iVillage)\, in 2010 Robinson co-founded WeSpire\, a WIRED and Fast Company award-winning company that provides a behavior-change platform for corporations to engage employees in sustainability goals and related programs. In 2018\, Sarah founded The 51 Percent Project to identify best practices and principles of climate change communication\, which is a burgeoning field of behavioral science. In her talk\, Robinson will focus on climate change communications principals relevant to New Canaan residents\, as well as how the community and the Land Trust can address climate change.  A Q & A session will follow the presentation. \nThe annual meeting will take place at the New Canaan Nature Center\, 144 Oenoke Ridge from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served.  For more information\, please contact the Land Trust at info@newcanaanlandtrust.org or 203-972-1270. \n \n Register Now URL:https://newcanaanlandtrust.org/events/new-canaan-land-trusts-annual-membership-meeting/ LOCATION:New Canaan Nature Center\, 144 Oenoke Ridge\, New Canaan\, CT\, 06840\, United States CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://newcanaanlandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/join-Us-for-Our-Annual-Membership-Meeting.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211110T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211110T203000 DTSTAMP:20260524T070451 CREATED:20211001T122601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211110T222456Z UID:4522-1636569000-1636576200@newcanaanlandtrust.org SUMMARY:NCLT's 54th Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Registration is required\, for both in-person and hybrid attendance.Please register by clicking the button\, below. \n \n Click Here to Register\n \n \n \n \n \n The New Canaan Land Trust invites you to its 54th Annual Membership Meeting on Wednesday\, November 10th at 6:30pm. Join in-person at the New Canaan Nature Center\, or virtually via Zoom. \nThe business portion of the meeting will feature updates from our President\, Treasurer\, and Executive Director\, and will include a vote on two new proposed board members\, Ainsley Hayes and Newell Cotton\, and a second\, four-year term for current board member Beth Sanford. After\, we will welcome our guest speaker\, Dr. Spencer Meyer\, to deliver a presentation about conservation finance\, landscape-scale conservation efforts\, and the way that New Canaan fits into regional conservation efforts. \n“Dr. Meyer’s lecture promises to be both eye-opening and thought-provoking. Hearing from one of our regions’ conservation leaders about how economics can shape the protection of natural resource should be of interest to the New Canaan community. We invite everyone to join us for an interesting and fun evening.” –Tom Cronin\, Board President \nThe meeting is free and open to the public\, and is an excellent way to learn about the Land Trust while spending a fun evening with the local conservation community. \nWe kindly request that all participants wishing to attend in-person be fully vaccinated (if eligible). We will have reduced capacity at the Nature Center to allow for social distancing\, and require that attendees wear masks when not eating or drinking. The virtual program will begin closer to 7pm. \n \n Click Here to Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Guest Speaker\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nDr. Spencer Meyer leads Highstead’s conservation finance program by collaborating with partners throughout New England and the U.S. to develop strategies to advance land conservation\, climate mitigation\, and watershed protection. As an interdisciplinary scientist with expertise in landscape ecology\, forest management\, and conservation finance\, Spencer’s work blends the conservation and economics of the natural resources on which we all depend. Spencer is a co-founder of Sebago Clean Waters and an active leader in the Wildlands & Woodlands Initiative and the Conservation Finance Network. \n\n\nBefore joining Highstead in 2016\, Spencer was an associate research scientist at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a NatureNet Fellow with The Nature Conservancy. Earlier\, Spencer spent over a decade in Maine\, leading sustainable forestry partnerships between academic\, conservation\, industry\, and public institutions. Currently\, Spencer is the vice president of the Guilford Land Conservation Trust\, a science advisor to the Forest Society of Maine\, and a member of the management team for Dartmouth’s Second College Grant. \n\n\nSpencer earned Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from University of Maine and an A.B. from Dartmouth College. Spencer lives with his wife and two children in Guilford\, CT\, where they split their outdoors time between the upland oak-hickory forest and the salt marshes of Long Island Sound. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Click Here to Register\n \n \n \n \n \n Zoom Meeting Login Information \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/88318499332?pwd=V3RzMnNDcW5tZ3U5U2grKzNzMDF6UT09Meeting ID: 883 1849 9332Passcode: 897074 \nOne tap mobile: +16465588656\,\,88318499332#\,\,\,\,*897074# US (New York) URL:https://newcanaanlandtrust.org/events/2021-annual-meeting/ LOCATION:New Canaan Nature Center\, 144 Oenoke Ridge\, New Canaan\, CT\, 06840\, United States CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://newcanaanlandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/annual-membership-meeting-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="New Canaan Land Trust":MAILTO:info@newcanaanlandtrust.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201112T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201112T193000 DTSTAMP:20260524T070451 CREATED:20200827T151846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T182533Z UID:3234-1605204000-1605209400@newcanaanlandtrust.org SUMMARY:53rd Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration is required. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.\nThe New Canaan Land Trust invites you to their 53rd annual meeting\, held by Zoom at 6pm on Thursday\, November 12. The annual meeting is an excellent opportunity to learn about the many ways that the Land Trust is engaging the New Canaan community in the conservation and stewardship of open space. \nThis years meeting will also feature a guest lecture from Gerald Torres\, Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment. Professor Torres is an acclaimed global scholar of environmental law\, who has spent his career examining the intrinsic connections between the environment\, agriculture and food systems\, and social justice. His lecture will provide an overview of the topic of environmental justice\, and touch on some of the ways that land and water conservation has both exacerbated and helped to solve varying social justice issues. \nProfessor Torres’ lecture promises be both eye-opening and thought provoking. Together\, we can learn about how access to land\, water\, and other natural resources can shape a community\, and how the strategic and thoughtful conservation of these resources can lead to a more equitable future. \nThe Land Trust will begin their meeting at 6pm\, and the lecture from Professor Torres will begin at 6:30pm. Attendees are welcome to attend either or both portions of the event\, and your advanced registration will admit you to both portions of the evening. \n\n \n\nAdvanced registration is required. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. URL:https://newcanaanlandtrust.org/events/53rd-annual-meeting/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting,Lecture ORGANIZER;CN="New Canaan Land Trust":MAILTO:info@newcanaanlandtrust.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR