Welcome to Autumn!

With fall foliage expected to be especially beautiful this year, it’s a great time to showcase your land trust and community preserves, trails, parks, and other greenspaces for all to enjoy, including your elected officials.

Inviting your legislators for a visit gives you a chance to talk about the property and discuss priorities including:

In a few weeks, CLCC is launching our annual series of Conservation Conversations—site visits that bring together land trusts, state legislators, and their communities across regions in Connecticut to highlight local conservation success stories.

With the state not on track in meeting its open space goals nor its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, land trusts play an essential role in advocating for local and sustainable solutions to these issues and in ensuring that land conservation efforts are embraced by communities everywhere.

With no time to lose, let's get outside and speak up for the places that sustain us all.

CLCC's 2021 Updates & Highlights newsletter is now available online

Take a look as we reflect on this past year, as well as ways we can continue to work together to advance land conservation in communities across the state.

Sept. 15 - Oct. 13: "Bird-friendly Forestry Training Series" (Highstead et al.)

Oct. 1 - 22: "Finding the Right Trees For the Right Time: Connecticut Climate Adaptation Workshop" (Avalonia Land Conservancy et al.)

Oct. 22: "Forest Management for Land Trusts" (North Branford Land Trust)

Publication: CT Forestry Services Directory (CT Forest & Park Association)

Oct. 5: "Conversations about Birding with Access Challenges, Episode 1" (Birdability Birders)

Oct. 20: "Having the Tough DEIJ Conversation" (Land Trust Alliance)

Recording: "Trails Are Common Ground" (American Trails)

Publication: Open to All: A Disability Inclusion Guide for Land Trusts (Land Trust Alliance)

Oct. 6: "Addressing Climate Crisis in CT: Energy Efficiency Day Virtual Summit" (Operation Fuel)

Governor's Council on Climate Change (GC3): September 21 meeting recording and presentation of GC3-related legislation and Phase II slides

Newsletter: DEEP Climate Solutions

Mapping Tool: New study and mapping tool identify carbon sequestration potential for forests (TNC and Clark University)

Jobs (multiple positions): DEEP; UConn CIRCA; The Nature Conservancy

Campaign: CT Transportation Climate Initiative

Campaign: Climate Emergency Action

Open Space & Watershed Land Acquisition (OSWA) and Urban Green & Community Garden (UGCG) Grant Programs.

Deadline extended: 10/31/21 Info here

Recreational Trails Program. Deadline: 11/2/21 Info here

Urban Forestry Climate Change Grants (four separate grants).

First deadline: 11/3/21 Info here

Natural Resources Conservation Service Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and others. Deadline: 10/15/21 Info here

U.S. Forest Service Community Forest & Open Space Conservation Program (CFP). Deadline: 1/10/22 Info here 

Public recreation access & land stewardship grants. Deadline: 11/19/21

CT Beaver Initiative grants. Rolling deadline. Info here

The National Environmental Education Foundation 2021 Restoration and Resilience Fund for public lands. Rolling deadline. Info here

We have an amazing opportunity to dramatically increase the conservation of important lands throughout Connecticut—but we need your help to make that happen. Donate today and your gift may be matched—providing you with an even greater opportunity to make a difference!

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