Highland Woods Campaign
Please click here to see the attached flyer if you would like to contribute to this campaign.
On Sunday, February 12th the Tiverton Land Trust (TLT) celebrated its latest efforts in preserving open space in Tiverton and held a kickoff fundraising campaign for the newly acquired Highland Woods property. The event was hosted by Louise Durfee, a member of the TLT Advisory Board and a long time advocate of conservation and the Land Trust.
TLT Board Members Nancy Weinstein, Trish Sylvester, and Connie Lima (President) receive the D.E.M. Award of $187,500 from Governor Chafee for help in preserving the Clark property.
Upcoming Events
- April 30 - Movie - 'The City Dark'
- Monday - 7 p.m.
- The Meeting House
- 3850 Main Rd., Tiverton
- A film on light pollution - 80 minute documentary with introduction by Francine Jackson of the Ladd Observatory see trailer: Click here.
- Vernal Pool Walk
- About 28 people showed up to visit the vernal pool. In New England, the term vernal pool is used to refer to a wide variety of temporary, fish-free wetlands. In the narrow sense, a vernal pool is a temporary wetland which fills each spring (vernal means spring) and dries annually. Some may persist for several years before drying. The peepers cooperated when we got to the pool. We got a close up look at a salamander and salamander eggs (see our Facebook page). Also saw a few bats flying overhead. Fun time!
- *Picture courtesy of D Sanna
- Skunk Cabbage
- In the wetlands along the Cemetery Trail at Pardon Gray Preserve, spring arrived very early in the form of Skunk Cabbage plants.
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May 27th - Spring Community Forum "The Natural History of RI Bats and Update on White-nose Syndrome" Sunday - 3 p.m. The Meeting House 3850 Main Rd., Tiverton Professor Peter August from the U.R.I. Department of Natural Resources Science will review the natural history of Rhode Island bats with special emphasis on the little brown bat. Little brown bats were one of our most common species of bat until a few years ago. Because of the mysterious disease, white-nose syndrome, they have now become one of our rarest species. To view the flyer click here.
Sept. 15th - Pardon Gray Day Saturday - 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Volunteer Committee forming in the next few weeks. If you are able to volunteer this year, please contact us or go to our Facebook page.
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