The votes are in – GREENSBORO HIGHLANDS TRAIL – new at Greensboro Ridge Natural Area! For a trail map and more, visit our page on this 113-acre property.
Our new, more informative trailhead signs are now going up. Look for them at Mink Brook, Slade Brook, and Greensboro Ridge.
Join us for our last spring trip – a journey back in time to the one-room Tunis Schoolhouse that once held 26 children in then-busy northeast Hanover. Then we’ll hike in to the protected site of an historic 18th century sawmill on tiny Tunis Brook. Co-sponsored with the Hanover Historical Society. Download details and directions here
Our new trail at the Greensboro Ridge Natural Area is ready for visitors, thanks to last week’s help from Hypertherm volunteers and our hardy, rain-drenched crew on Upper Valley Trails Day. Blazing will be completed soon, but the half-mile path, which links the Silent Brook Trail with Oli’s Eagle Trail, is now easy to follow. Try it out!
Saturday, May 19, 2-4pm – Bring your kites and kids to join us for a joyous and colorful afternoon of kite-flying in the breezes of Balch Hill. More, including a slide show of the 2010 event, here.
As part of an on-going project with the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service, the Hanover Conservancy has conducted a treatment to control invasive Japanese Knotweed along the corridor of Mink Brook in the Mink Brook Nature Preserve. A special permit has been issued for this work, carried out by a licensed professional under the supervision of our eco-forester, Ehrhard Frost. Our project is funded by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Aggressive non-native plants like Japanese knotweed, honeysuckle, bittersweet, and glossy buckthorn steal habitat from native plants and wildlife. We are in the middle of a three-year project to control them.
In the spring of 2012, we began the next phase of this project, replanting with 2000 native trees and shrubs that are well-adapted to growing conditions at Mink Brook Nature Preserve.
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!
