Photo By/Credit: Tom Gettings, Wildlands Conservancy, retired By Tricia Andriski Connecting with nature can help a person relax, be inspired and feel rejuvenated. Mark Zakutansky was so inspired by his time outdoors as a child that he has built a career conserving wild places so others may have those opportunities too. Zakutansky is director of […]
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‘Follow the Forest!’ presentation, Warren Public Library
CT INSIDER Presentation co-sponsored by the Warren Land Trust, Warren Historical Society, and Warren Public Library, 5/30, 5-7 p.m., Warren Public Library, Sackett Hill Road Julia Rogers, Senior Land Protection Manager at the Housatonic Valley Association, will provide a presentation on the Follow the Forest initiative, which seeks to protect and sustain wildlife, their habitat and […]
Registration Open for HVA’s Celebrate Our Watershed Event
TownTimesNews.com CORNWALL BRIDGE — Registration is open for Celebrate Our Watershed with the Housatonic Valley Association, a free event that helps protect waterways and lands across the nearly 2,000 square mile Housatonic River Watershed. From May 26 until July 4, HVA invites people of all ages to Celebrate Our Watershed by registering at www.hvatoday.org. People […]
State Grant Supports Water Quality Monitoring in Central MA
This Week in Worcester by Tom Marino | April 27, 2023 WORCESTER – Governor Healey’s office announced $500,000 state grants on Wednesday, April 26, to five coalitions and four individual non-profit watershed organizations across the state, including the Blackstone River Watershed Coalition, to support monitoring water quality. The grant program is administered by the Massachusetts Department […]
Spring marks the return of our region’s wildlife, including amphibians
WSHU | By Sabrina Garone When you think about the arrival of spring, there are probably a few things you look forward to — birds chirping, flowers blooming or maybe bears coming out of hibernation. For Tim Abbott, a conservation director with the Housatonic River Valley Association, it’s the mass migration of amphibians. “The first […]
Don’t let the rainfall just flow away. Rain gardens stop erosion, refill the ground
By Robert Miller CTINSIDER In the past, the rain going down the waterspout carried whatever it had picked up along the way — lawn fertilizer, oil-soaked road sand, litter, itsy-bitsy spiders and more. This water then went into lakes and ponds, polluting them. Streams carried the runoff to rivers and on to Long Island Sound. […]
41 miles of the Housatonic River in Connecticut designated “Wild & Scenic”
WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Jim Levulis Photo: Julia Rogers A 41-mile section of the Housatonic River in Connecticut has received the federal designation of Wild and Scenic. River advocates believe the acknowledgement will lead to better protections for the waterway. As part of the recently passed omnibus bill in Washington, the stretch of […]
Housatonic River Receives Wild and Scenic Designation
iBerkshires.com NEW MILFORD, Conn. — The Housatonic River Commission announced the federal designation of the Housatonic River as a Wild & Scenic River for the 41 miles of the river from the Massachusetts border to the Boardman Bridge in New Milford. “This federal Wild & Scenic designation of the Housatonic River will help to ensure […]
Washington Finance Board Approves ARPA Funding Plans
Voices, by Linda Zukauskas WASHINGTON — The Board of Finance, meeting Monday, January 23, approved recommendations on how the town should use funds assigned to Washington from the American Rescue Plan Act. The American Rescue Plan Act Fund Committee evaluated several requests and ideas for how to use the federal dollars to recommend $10,000 to […]
Housatonic Valley Association honors environmental champions
ctinsider.com CORNWALL BRIDGE — Housatonic Valley Association staff, board members, supporters, and friends gathered Dec. 15 in a virtual event, for the organization’s 81st annual meeting, Hosted by HVA President Tony Zunino, the organization’s annual meeting and holiday gathering honored watershed heroes whose work will have a lasting, positive impact on the region’s environmental […]
