by New Canaan Land Trust Team | May 28, 2020 | Nature Feature
Written and photographed by Susan Bergen, NCLT Board Member There is an idiomatic expression that describes an extremely shy woman as a ‘shrinking violet.’ While violets may be miniscule and often passed over for more showy flowers, there is nothing shrinking about...
by New Canaan Land Trust Team | Mar 24, 2020 | Nature Feature
Written and photographed by Susan Bergen, NCLT Board Member Did you know that skunk cabbage is a perennial flower? It is also an invaluable native plant in our wetland habitats.Skunk cabbage is one of the first plants to emerge in the spring – sometimes even in late...
by New Canaan Land Trust Team | Mar 19, 2020 | Solstice/Equinox Letters
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and have my senses put in order.” John Burroughs, a leader in the early conservation movement, an American essayist, and a naturalist, wrote those words over one hundred years ago. Today, scientists and...
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