by Nate McCullin | Beyond the Barways
At WLCT we build a lot of bridges. This fall we’re installing two new crossings over Angeline Brook at the Herb Hadfield Conservation Area. If you’ve taken a walk at Herb Hadfield after a rainstorm, you’ll know that the old bridges were inundated and...
by Westport Land Trust Staff | Beyond the Barways
Every year Westport Land Conservation Trust asks Board of Directors candidates to answer a few questions about their connection to Westport and land preservation. Please read below for 2025 Board candidate Don Swift’s responses. “Westport, characterized by...
by Charlotte Greeson | Beyond the Barways
The Tuesday Trail Team will be placing simple benches at properties across town this year. Trail Team builders try out the bench A bench at Westport Woods awaits a visitor A Seat To Connect Us to The Land A “Leopold bench,” originally built by the...
by Westport Land Trust Staff | Beyond the Barways
Labeling the plants in our teaching gardens (around our offices at Kirby House and on the Woodland Discovery Path) helps visitors to recognize native plants in cultivated and more naturalized places–plants that they might then find on the trails or in their...
by Charlotte Greeson | Beyond the Barways
WLCT is grateful for the Westport community, without whom we would not be able to preserve, care, and connect people to the land. Each year we take this week to thank a few of the people who inspire us. We rely on enthusiastic community volunteers who support our...
