Recreation, Conservation, and Education Links

 

Hiking Links

• Machimoodus Outdoors Club

• Appalachian Mountain Club (Connecticut Chapter)

• Meshomasic Hiking Club

• American Hiking Society

• Lyme Land Trust Hiking and Trail Maps

• Old Lyme Trail Book (pdf)

• Essex Land Trust Property Map

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Recreation Links

• CT Forest & Park Association

• CT State Parks (with printable trail maps)

• Devil's Hopyard State Park

• Friends of Connecticut State Parks

• National Park Service

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Land Trusts and Related Organizations

• Land Trust Alliance

• Haddam Land Trust

• Salem Land Trust

• Lyme Land Conservation Trust

• Essex Land Trust

• Chester Land Trust 

• Branford Land Trust

• The Middlesex Land Trust

• Meriden Land Trust

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Environmental and Educational Links

• American Field Guides (PBS Video Clips)

• Center for Watershed Protection

• Connecticut Fund for the Environment

• Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District

• Connecticut River Gateway Commission

• The Connecticut River Watershed Council

• Connecticut River Watch Program

• Connecticut River Estuary Regional Planning Agency

• DEEP: Connecticut Greenways

• Eightmile River Watershed

• The Environment Web Directory

• The Nature Conservancy

• The Nature Conservancy, Connecticut Chapter

• Our Better Nature

• Rivers Alliance of Connecticut

• University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension Service

• The Vernal Pool Association

 

Flora, Fauna, and Related Links

 

Flora

• Connecticut Botanical Society

• Connecticut College Arboretum

• Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group

• UConn Plants Database

• USDA Plants Database

• Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut

• New England Wild Flower Society

• Go Botany

 

Fauna

• Butterflies and Moths of North America

• Bluebirds

• Connecticut Butterfly Association

• Connecticut Ornithological Association

• Connecticut Wildlife Rehabilitators Association

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology

• Free Wildlife Guides by Species/Zip Code (eNature.com)

• Connecticut Audubon Society

• Audubon Society - Connecticut

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