Not long ago Kasha Breau, a teacher-naturalist at our Center at Glastonbury, helped a fellow in East Haddam return two Barred Owl nestlings to the sugar maple in which their nest was located. She also told him that if he watched the owlets, he’d see something fascinating: they’d lie on their stomachs on a limb […]
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Shhhh! The Barred Owls Are Sleeping
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012Miley and Milton the Barn Owl on WTNH
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012Miley Bull, our senior director of conservation and science, traveled to New Haven with Milton, our Barn Owl, to appear on Connecticut Style, a midday show on WTNH. Miley did a terrific job talking about the work we’re doing with the Audubon Alliance to protect beach-nesting birds such as Piping Plovers and Least Terns. […]
The Fate of Plum Island
Monday, July 23rd, 2012Connecticut residents interested in the conservation of the greater Long Island Sound area will want to keep an eye on plans by the federal government to sell Plum Island. The island is 840 acres in size, is part of Suffolk County, N.Y., and lies off the tip of Orient Point at the eastern end of […]
Rating the General Assembly’s 2012 Performance on the Environment
Sunday, July 15th, 2012We got our first close retrospective look recently at how members of the General Assembly in Hartford performed on issues affecting the environment, when the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters released its annual scorecard. In general, scores reflected a stronger record on the environment in 2012 than in each of the three previous years (each […]
Pesticides in Long Island Sound Lobsters
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012It’s an interesting coincidence (and we say that with no irony) that one week before the Environment and Human Health organization has a scheduled pesticide strategy session in New Haven, UConn and the state DEEP released the results of tests that for the first time showed pesticides in the organs of Long Island Sound lobsters. […]
Future Conservation Depends on Environmental Literacy
Thursday, June 21st, 2012We’ve been focusing our attention this year on strengthening and expanding our environmental education work, the foundation of which is our new Science in Nature program. Our belief is that environmental literacy is essential to an enlightened, conservation-minded pubic, now and in future generations. Our education program is designed to address specific goals outlined in […]
Nature Versus Technology? Or Nature Allied With Technology?
Thursday, July 5th, 2012A lot of participants in our four recent community forums complained about the addictive hold technology has on kids, and how it is one of the keys to young people’s alienation from nature. Kids are glued to their smartphones. All kids want to do is play computer games. Socializing online has taken over their lives. […]
Oysters on the Beach
Saturday, June 30th, 2012I’ve been to our Milford Point Coastal Center three times in the last 10 days, and each time I walked along the massive sand bar that curves out from the beach. The tide line is paved with oyster shells, as white as chalk in the midday late June sunlight. Milford Point is at the mouth […]
New Methods Promote the Use of Pesticides
Friday, June 29th, 2012Folks in Connecticut who advocate for the responsible use of pesticides (and by “responsible use,” they mean very, very, very little, if not none) are in a tizzy about two new developments – a pro-pesticide coloring book featuring a character they liken to Joe Camel, and a new-fangled pesticide mister that sprays poisons on your […]
Nature On Screen
Monday, June 25th, 2012Is the Internet our means of experiencing nature? Two pretty good writers – Carol Kaesuk Yoon and Diane Ackerman – say yes, and they say it’s time for us old and middle-aged fogeys to face reality. Writing about kids and nature in the Science section of last Tuesday’s Times, Yoon seemed to be responding specifically […]
