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CT DEEP announces grants to fight aquatic invasive species

May 7, 2021 By HVAadmin

Westchester & Fairfield County Business Journals By Kevin Zimmerman  May 5, 2021 Several Fairfield County projects are among the recipients of the inaugural round of grant funding through the Aquatic Invasive Species Grant Program, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has announced. A total of $360,000 is going to 21 projects to reduce impacts […]

State grant money will go toward combatting invasive species in Candlewood Lake and other CT waters

May 7, 2021 By HVAadmin

Newstimes Kendra Baker  May 4, 2021           Thousands of dollars in state grant money will support several Danbury-area projects designed to reduce the impact of invasive species on local lakes and rivers. The largest amount in the area will go to the Candlewood Lake Authority to implement a boat-inspection program that […]

Maloney Announces Highlands Conservation Act Reauthorization

April 24, 2021 By HVAadmin

          FORT MONTGOMERY, NY — Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold Spring, announced bipartisan legislation Friday that would reauthorize a conservation act to protect wildlife and support clean water across the region. During a news conference at the Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, Maloney said the Highlands Conservation Act would also supply […]

Volunteers help clean up Great Brook stream in New Milford

April 24, 2021 By HVAadmin

ctpost   Sandra Diamond Fox April 12, 2021                     NEW MILFORD — Dressed in old clothes and wearing work gloves and boots, about 40 volunteers spent several hours Saturday picking up trash and planting trees at Hulton Meadow Park. The volunteers were part of the Dream Stream Team […]

Housatonic Valley Association’s virtual auction is Feb. 21

February 18, 2021 By HVAadmin

Register Citizen WASHINGTON — Actor Christine Baranski’s annual harvest-time tradition of hosting HVA’s Auction for the Environment is a winter-time virtual event, starting a 4 p.m. Feb. 21. A special pre-auction reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. with Christine and Margo Martindale and friends for VIP Sponsor ticket-holders. The Auction for the Environment is […]

Five Highland projects closed in 2020 in Connecticut

February 4, 2021 By HVAadmin

Cornwall Conservation Trust has announced the protection of Red Mountain (Galluci) preserve (66 acres). This was the fifth Highlands project to close in 2020, a record for Connecticut, and the Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) was deeply involved in making all of them happen. In 2019 DEEP closed four Highlands projects. In previous years the number […]

New Milford to restore polluted stream through partnership

January 8, 2021 By HVAadmin

The Litchfield County Times By Sandra Diamond Fox, Jan 8, 2021 NEW MILFORD — Through a community-wide effort, a polluted stream with invasive plants in New Milford will soon be restored to its natural beauty. In a partnership with Sustainable New Milford, the Housatonic Valley Association, and community residents, $15,000 was raised toward the cleanup […]

Ostrove honored as Candlewood Mountain ‘champion’

January 2, 2021 By HVAadmin

The Greater New Milford Spectrum   The Housatonic Valley Association, which serves the Greater New Milford area and beyond, recently announced the recipient of its Montgomery Hare Environmental Champion Award. The award was presented to New Milford resident Lisa Ostrove and Rescue Candlewood Mountain at HVA’s holiday gathering and annual meeting via Zoom. “When the […]

Robert Miller: Connecting the forest dots to make a whole

November 29, 2020 By HVAadmin

By Robert Miller The Housatonic Valley Association hosted its annual Still River Day to teach Danbury middle and elementary school students about the environment in an outdoor classroom setting next to the Still River on Oct. 4, 2017. Photo: H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut Media   Think big. The woods around your house, […]

HVA receives capacity grant to help protect wildlife corridor

November 21, 2020 By HVAadmin

New Milford Spectrum   The John T. and Jane A. Wiederhold Foundation has awarded Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) a $60,000 Habitat, Land, and Environmental Protection Grant for its Follow the Forest conservation initiative. The foundation is a supporting arm of the Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation, Inc. The grant will allow HVA and its conservation partners […]

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