Science-Based Conservation Management Projects Underway in Norwalk and Orange

Hoyt’s Island in early spring. Photo by Scott Kruitbosch/Copyright Connecticut Audubon Society

July 2013 – Fresh off the completion of a major conservation and management plan for Aspetuck Land Trust’s Trout Brook Valley preserve, Connecticut Audubon Society’s conservation biologists have embarked on similar projects for the Norwalk Land Trust and the town of Orange.

In Norwalk, our Conservation Services staff is working on Hoyt Island, which covers 2.5 acres and lies in a cove near the mouth of Norwalk Harbor, not far from the Norwalk Islands component of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge.

In Orange, the staff is working at the Turkey Hill Preserve, 376 acres of forest and old field habitat that remains largely undisturbed.

The projects are good examples of the range and scale of our Conservation Services program, through which we work with landowners on science-based conservation management and planning. Conservation Services is one of the chief ways we pursue our goals of conserving Connecticut’s birds and their habitats.