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Born to Be Wild Children, Modern Life, and Nature CONNECTICUT Woodlands BORN TO BE WILD CHILDREN, MODERN LIFE, AND NATURE The Magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association Winter 2011 Volume 75 No. 4 About Connecticut Forest & Park Association and Connecticut Woodlands Magazine Library of Congress Children in Ledyard (above) and Norwich (below) frolic as only they know how, circa 1940. Connecting People to the Land Our mission: The Connecticut Forest & Park Association protects forests, parks, walking Annual Membership Connecticut Woodlands is a quarterly trails and open spaces for future generations by Individual $ 35 magazine published since 1936 by CFPA, the connecting people to the land. CFPA directly private, non-profit organization dedicated to involves individuals and families, educators, Family $ 50 conserving the land, trails, and natural community leaders and volunteers to enhance Supporting $ 100 resources of Connecticut. and defend Connecticut’s rich natural heritage. CFPA is a private, non-profit organization that Benefactor $ 250 Members of CFPA receive the magazine in the relies on members and supporters to carry out mail in January, April, July, and October. its mission. CFPA also publishes a newsletter several times Life Membership $ 2500 a year. Our vision: We envision Connecticut as a place of scenic beauty whose cities, suburbs, For more information about CFPA, to join or and villages are linked by a network of parks, Corporate Membership donate online, visit our newly expanded web- forests, and trails easily accessible for all people site, www.ctwoodlands.org, or call 860-346-2372. Club $ 50 to challenge the body and refresh the spirit. We picture a state where clean water, timber, farm Non-profit $ 75 Give the gift of membership in CFPA . fresh foods, and other products of the land make Contact Jim Little at 860-346-2372 . Sustaining $ 100 a significant contribution to our economic and Advertising Rates for Connecticut Woodands cultural well-being. Landmark $ 250 Half page: $180 per issue /$600 yearly Stewardship $ 500 (four issues) Connecticut Woodlands Leadership $ 1000 Quarter page: $90 per issue / $300 yearly. Published quarterly by the Eighth page: $60 per issue / $200 yearly Connecticut Forest & Park Association, 16 Meriden Road, Design services available for a fee. Rockfall, CT 06481-2961. Indexed in the Connecticut Periodical Index, ISSN 00106257. Telephone: 860-346-2372. Fax: 860-347-7463. E-mail address: [email protected] Printed on recycled paper World Wide Web site: http://www.ctwoodlands.org 2 | CONNECTICUT WOODLANDS | WINTER 2011 CONNECTICUT Woodlands The Magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association Winter 2010 Volume 75 No. 4 CONTENTS FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 6 DOES MODERN LIFE PULL CHILDREN 4 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE. AWAY FROM NATURE? Hit the books—then hit the trails. Distractions, both important and By Eric Hammerling. random, get in the way of outdoor time. By Christine Woodside. 5 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. Bits and pieces. By David Platt. 9 URBAN YOUNG PEOPLE RUB ELBOWS WITH NATURE. 20 ESSENTIAL FACTS OF LIFE. Hartford’s natural world changes kids. An update on CFPA’s work in By Doris Johnson. environmental education. By Lori Paradis Brant. 10 SEND THEM OUT TO THE DIRT PILE. Childhood and nature expert 21 WalkCT. David Sobel explains how to do it. Let’s Move: Michelle Obama’s By Lori Paradis Brant. program and CFPA’s counterpart. By Leslie Lewis. 11 WHY BE OUT THERE? Sign, cut out, and post your pledge, 22 FROM THE LAND. courtesy of the Whole Child campaign The story of Frances Kellogg: of National Wildlife Federation. education patron, conservationist, farmer. By Jean Crum Jones. 12 ENGAGING THEM EARLY. Preschool programs at Nature Center 24 ON THE TRAILS. make a huge impact. By Margarett Jones. Teachers become students, pushing up the trail. The trail called, and he 16 UNDER COVERTS. answered. Adults learn how to care for private land and share their passion with 26 ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE. others. By Thomas Worthley. News from around the state. Harold Hanka 18 SALVAGED CITY TREES REBORN. 27 OBITUARIES. Nate Dorpalen. Esselstyn brothers make beautiful Elmer Baxter. furniture. By Diane Friend Edwards. On the Cover Alana Sanchez, 8, romps at the Barn Island Wildlife Management Area in Stonington with her dog, Rufus. Harold Hanka WINTER 2011 | CONNECTICUT WOODLANDS | 3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR‘S MESSAGE The ConnectiCuT ForesT Hit the books—then hit the trails & Park assoCiaTion, inC. OFFICERS BY ERIC HAMMERLING PRESIDENT, DAVID PLATT, Higganum VICE-PRESIDENT, WILLIAM D. BRECK, Killingworth his fall, I began teaching a graduate-level course at VICE-PRESIDENT, ERIC LUKINGBEAL, Granby Southern Connecticut State University entitled “The VICE-PRESIDENT, STARR SAYRES, East Haddam Political and Legal Aspects of Environmental Con- TREASURER, GORDON L. ANDERSON, Glastonbury Tcerns.” Twelve brave students and I meet on Wednes- ASSISTANT TREASURER, JAMES W. DOMBRAUSKAS, New Hartford day nights at Jennings Hall for two and a half hours to SECRETARY, ERIC HAMMERLING, West Hartford discuss historical and current-day conservation issues as FORESTER, DAN DONAHUE, Ashford well as the state and federal environmental laws that are associated with them. DIRECTORS I have gained a healthy respect and appreciation for how much preparation teachers must do to make the learning RICHARD BAUERFELD, Branford RUSSELL BRENNEMAN, Westport experience meaningful for everyone. Many of my students CFPA ROBERT BUTTERWORTH, Deep River Executive Director are themselves middle and high school teachers with large STARLING W. CHILDS, Norfolk Eric Hammerling workloads of their own, but they are excited enough to RUTH CUTLER, Ashford learn about these issues that they have been patient with LAURENCE DIAMOND, Coventry me as I have heaped more than 1,800 pages in reading CAROLINE DRISCOLL, New London assignments on them. ASTRID T. HANZALEK, Suffield Their dedication inspires me. An added benefit for me has been the chance to JEAN CRUM JONES, Shelton reread several environmental classics alongside them. We’ve read A Sand County DAVID K. LEFF, Collinsville Almanac by Aldo Leopold (first published in 1949), Our Stolen Future by Theo SCOTT LIVINGSTON, Bolton Colborn (first published in 1996), The Riverkeepers by John Cronin and Rob- LAUREN L. MCGREGOR, Hamden GEOFFREY MEISSNER, Plantsville ert F. Kennedy, Jr. (first published in 1997), Deep Economy by Bill McKibben JEFFREY O’DONNELL, Bristol (Times Books, 2007), The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly JAMES RITCHIE, Sandy Hook Press, 2005), and Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv (Algonquin Books of DEBORAH C. SPALDING, Guilford Chapel Hill, 2008). DAVID SULLIVAN, Higganum Through these books, we’ve analyzed Leopold’s land ethic, Colborn’s elucida- RICHARD WHITEHOUSE, Glastonbury tion of endocrine-disrupting chemical dangers, Kennedy’s utilization of the pub- lic trust doctrine, McKibben’s argument for localism, Flannery’s encapsulation of climate change, and Louv’s crusade against nature deficit disorder. HONORARY DIRECTORS Although I believe that many of our readings and discussions have been pro- found, I am now feeling that I may have let my students down by not taking HARROL W. BAKER, JR., Bolton RICHARD F. BLAKE, Milford them on a field trip to get them out of the classroom and into nature. There are ANN M. CUDDY, Lakeville ample outdoor opportunities right now as “leaf off” provides a great time to SAMUEL G. DODD, North Andover, MA see things in the forest or enjoy vistas that may be hidden from view during the JOHN E. HIBBARD, Hebron growing season. PHILIP H. JONES, JR., Shelton To make up for keeping them in the institutional classroom setting, I will EDWARD A. RICHARDSON, Glastonbury encourage them next week to visit some of the 107 state parks, 32 state forests, L.P. SPERRY, JR., Middlebury and 47 wildlife management areas that together cover more than 230,000 acres SALLY L. TAYLOR, Mystic in Connecticut (about 10 percent of the state’s area). My students can help swell HENRY H. TOWNSHEND, New Haven the ranks of the 8 million or more people each year who visit these special places (attendance that is more than twice the total population of Connecticut). I will STAFF also encourage them to venture out on some of the 825 miles of Blue-Blazed EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ERIC HAMMERLING, West Hartford Hiking Trails maintained by Connecticut Forest & Park Association volunteers COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, JENNIFER BENNER, Roxbury who this year dedicated almost 15,000 hours to maintaining the trails. Who EDUCATION DIRECTOR, LORI PARADIS BRANT, Rockfall knows, some of my students may wish to become volunteers too. TRAIL STEWARDSHIP DIRECTOR, CLARE CAIN, Niantic It’s a classic conundrum that I’ve struggled with as a teacher. I want to make FOREST & PROGRAM DIRECTOR, GOODWIN FOREST CENTER, sure my students know what the great environmental thinkers say, but if the stu- STEVE BRODERICK, Eastford dents truly “get it,” they will conclude that we all need to put down the books FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT, LINDA CUNNINGHAM, Portland and dare to think for ourselves in the outdoors. They will understand that in our MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR, MARTY GOSSELIN, Durham forests and parks, and along the trails, people can still feel like they are part of DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, JAMES W. LITTLE, Hebron the wild world and “think like a mountain,” as Aldo Leopold so famously said. WALKCT DIRECTOR, LESLIE LEWIS, Lyme When they stand up in class and ask if we can head outside, I will acquiesce and OFFICE MANAGER, TERESA PETERS, Durham feel that I have succeeded. EDITOR, CHRISTINE WOODSIDE Eric Hammerling lives in West Hartford. GRAPHIC DESIGNER, KAREN WARD 4 | CONNECTICUT WOODLANDS | WINTER 2011 THE EDUCATION PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Bits and pieces ISSUE BY DAVID PLATT This issue of Connecticut Woodlands o you pause periodically to ask yourself how you are doing on your is the result of the collective ideas of a “bucket list”? I do. Running a marathon was on my list years back, committee convened to introduce ideas, and I managed to check that one off.
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