The crabapples are in full bloom, and the bird sanctuary’s new plantings are coming into flower and leaf for their first full season. Jim Block has shared some stunning photos taken at the Sanctuary in the last few days. Find them and more here!
Planting at Mink Brook Preserve
Visitors to the Mink Brook Nature Preserve will notice something new this week – stakes, mesh sleeves, fresh flagging – and 2000 new trees and shrubs! Our volunteers, led by forester Ehrhard Frost and crew, are now replanting natives to fill in areas where invasive buckthorn, honeysuckle, and autumn olive had been removed. This major project has been funded with a cost-share from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Thanks to the Hanover Lions Club for sending helping hands for this project.
Bear Family at Mink Brook Nature Preserve
Mother bear with three small cubs seen April 24 and 25 in the Dunster Drive neighborhood adjacent to Mink Brook. Thanks to a neighbor for this shot (through a screen door). Mink Brook neighbors should befriend the bears by bringing in birdfeeders, securing their trash, and controlling their dogs. Mother bears are very protective parents.
Lend a Hand on Earth Day!
Join the action on Sunday afternoon, April 22
- Tunis Brook Mill Lot, 1-4pm. Calling all those with clippers, loppers or chainsaws & moxie to clear the overgrown path to this gem in NE Hanover, site of 18th c. mill. Refreshments.
- King Bird Sanctuary, 1-3pm. We’ll be tidying up the new wildlife plantings and pruning back competitors.
Trails Softening ~ Bears Out Soon!
This week’s unusually warm temperatures mean muddy trails. It’s best to stay off the trails until they dry out and harden up. An exception is the Quinn Trail at Mink Brook Nature Preserve.
Time to bring in your bird feeders! State biologists expect the bears weren’t fooled by this mild winter any more than we were, and ask that you bring in your bird feeders now, and don’t wait until April 1.
NEW! Clean Water Future: A Marketplace
Here’s an innovative Internet-based marketplace that connects landowners in our region with people who appreciate and benefit from services offered by the land. This new site helps individuals and businesses invest in projects that protect or enhance natural services provided by private forest and farmland in the Upper Connecticut River Watershed.
The Hanover Conservancy has posted two projects for investment at Greensboro Ridge Natural Area.
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