eport 2019 al R nu An t u c ti c e n n o C THE NATURE Dear Friends– CONSERVANCY IN CONNECTICUT I love seeing the world through the eyes of others, whether looking at my favorite artist’s work, talking with vendors at my farmers’ market, BOARD OF TRUSTEES or learning about the latest renewable energy innovations from our FRANCES C. ASHLEY experts. I get a more complete picture of the world when I see it from CHAIR others’ points of view. LAURA di BONAVENTURA VICE CHAIR DAVID JAFFE What does this have to VICE CHAIR do with conservation? JOHN PRITCHARD SECRETARY EVERYTHING. ERIC BAUMAN TREASURER Building a healthy, sustainable planet is a monumental challenge, and TRUSTEES one that is beyond the scope of any one organization to achieve. We EUNICE BURNETT WITH A have to bring many different people and perspectives together to make RODRIGO CANALES, PH.D. DANIEL C. ESTY, ESQ. it happen. KIKI KENNEDY, MD MARIE-FRANCE KERN That’s how The Nature Conservancy gets conservation done, and what PHILIP O. LIVINGSTON, MD LITTLE HELP you’ll see in these pages. You’ll meet our partners like Connecticut ELIZABETH MCCANCE, PH.D. KAREN MEHRA National Public Radio and Yale University, who have helped us JAMES PROSEK broadcast climate discussions across the state and nation, to partners ALLEN ROSENSHINE like Groundwork Bridgeport helping us to bring the benefits of nature DAVID K. SKELLY, PH.D. FROM OUR AMY VAN DER VELDE to urban dwellers. GARY YOHE, PH.D. YALE BOARD FELLOWS We’ve taken a program – our Coastal Resiliency Building workshop SHEA FLANAGAN FRIENDS which trains communities how they can use nature to buffer MANON LEFEVRE themselves from the effects of climate change – and expanded TEONA WILLIAMS it rapidly. Pioneeered here in Connecticut, demand for these STATE DIRECTOR workshops has led to them being adopted in six other states, including DR. FROGARD RYAN Massachusetts, and most recently, Rhode Island. And finally, there is our leadership on the Long Island Sound Blue Plan, which exemplifies how we work at scale, with many partners and different users of this beautiful estuary that is our window to the world. You’ll hear voices from communities across the state who want to create a plan for Long Island Sound that balances the needs of tens of millions of people along with the needs of nature. Like the farmers selling their produce at my Saturday market, or entrepreneurs innovating the next clean energy breakthrough, this work is our passion. We do it because we love it, but also because it’s essential to our collective survival. It requires us to be ambitious, and we can only do it with many partners and voices on board, including yours. Thank you for seeing the world through the eyes of others, like mine. Best,

inset photos this page: Brant flying over Long Island Sound © TNC; Dr. Frogard Ryan © TNC (Michael Asphar); Salt Marsh near the mouth of the Connecticut River in Old Lyme © TNC (Jerry and Marcy Monkman) Dr. Frogard Ryan This past year saw a variety of events and gatherings, large and small, for us to share with all of you our enthusiasm for protecting the lands and waters on which all life depends.

We love to get together with our friends and talk CELEBRATING AN about conservation in our supporters’ homes so we can get to know each other EVENTFUL YEAR better. But we also love our big annual events, like Nature Talks, International Women’s Day and the Greenwich International Film Festival. Here are a few photo highlights from our very eventful year.

top row from left: TNC’s Andrew Benson at beach clean-up day, Lighthouse Point Park, New Haven © TNC (Laura Shail); Nature Conservancy Center wall mural © TNC; TNC trustee Laura di Bonaventura, Connecticut chapter State Director Dr. Frogard Ryan and TNC trustees Karen Mehra and Eunice Burnett at Earth Day presentation at Grace Farms, New Canaan © TNC (Andrew Benson); Former State Senator Ted Kennedy Jr., Dr. Frogard Ryan, TNC trustee Allen Rosenshine and former PepsiCo Chair and CEO Indra Nooyi at Nature as a Business Asset dinner, Greenwich © TNC (Andrew Benson) middle row from left: Mara Shore, TNC Board Chair Frances Ashley and TNC trustee Kiki Kennedy in Greenwich © TNC (Andrew Benson); Radio personality John Dankosky speaks with panelists Gary Yohe, Huffington Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University and TNC trustee, Jay Williams, president, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Lynn Stoddard, Executive Director, Sustainable Connecticut, and Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org at Nature Talks event at Yale University in New Haven © Steven Laschever; Beach clean-up at Lighthouse Point Park, New Haven © TNC (Laura Shail); a falcon impresses a crowd at the TNC and Grace Farms Earth Day event, New Canaan © TNC (Andrew Benson) bottom row from left: Former Board Chair John Levinson and Connecticut chapter State Director Dr. Frogard Ryan greet the late Wild Kingdom host Jim Fowler in New Canaan © TNC (Andrew Benson); The Greenwich International Film Festival of which TNC was a sponsor; Michael Sutton, Executive Director of the Goldman Environmental Prize, Melissa Garvey, Global Director of Ocean Protection at TNC, Nathan M. Frohling, Director CT Marine & Coastal Initiatives, Frances C. Ashley, TNC in Connecticut Board Chair join panel discussion with Science Friday host Ira Flatow © TNC (Andrew Benson); Frogard Ryan speaking with supporters at an Earth Day event at Grace Farms Foundation © TNC (Andrew Benson)

RESILIENT RHODY Today, with 80 percent of the world’s Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank announced population living in coastal areas, Connecticut’s the launch of the Resilient Rhody Municipal climate adaptation efforts are part of a Resilience Program in partnership with The worldwide effort to address climate change. Nature Conservancy. The program aims From the Florida Keys, to the Philippines to to support Rhode Island municipalities in Connecticut’s coastal communities, we are increasing their climate resilience by providing building the scientific case for the protective technical assistance and the ability to apply for value of nature for communities and economies, implementation funds. while working with local communities to The Nature Conservancy will help ensure they can adapt to climate change. municipalities complete a climate vulnerability assessment and develop a list of actionable TACKLING Connecticut’s climate plans and projects using our Community Resilience Building process. Participating adaptation efforts are part communities will receive designation as a Resilient Rhody Municipality upon successful CLIMATE of a WORLDWIDE EFFORT. completion of the program, which aims to deepen municipalities’ understanding of There have been some exciting new climate risks and financially assist them in CHANGE developments with our Community Resilience developing resilient solutions. Building workshops this year. The Connecticut The program supports the goals outlined in Chapter’s workshop process has been the state’s Climate Resilience Action Strategy instrumental in helping more than 350 towns (Resilient Rhody) released by Governor Gina prepare for extreme weather in Connecticut, Raimondo in 2018, which identified steps the New York, Massachusetts, and beyond. This state can take to protect against unexpected year, Rhode Island followed suit. events, like severe weather, while addressing chronic stresses, such as sea level rise coupled with aging infrastructure. THE CHAPTER RELEASED THE DRAFT LONG ISLAND BLUE PLAN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, AND DELIVERED THE FINAL DRAFT TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE IN SEPTEMBER.

this page: Community Resilience Building workshop in action © TNC (Adam Whelchel); Storm surge overcomes road © TNC

THE CHAPTER HAS SERVED ON THE DEEP COMMISSION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND HAS BECOME ACTIVE IN THE EFFORT TO DEPLOY AND PRODUCE RENEWABLE OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY. The Nature Conservancy’s CONSERVING efforts to protect land and water for nature and people RESILIENT SPAN THE ENTIRE GLOBE. This year saw one of TNC’s largest-ever LAND AND conservation efforts in the eastern United States, the Cumberland Forest Project. The 253,000-acre parcel WATER protects the Central Appalachian winding streams and hilly forests of THE CHAPTER ADDED Virginia’s Clinch Valley. And all the way 77 ACRES TO LUCIUS in Kenya’s central highlights of Nairobi, ORDWAY/DEVIL’S DEN, OUR we are working with communities to MOST POPULAR PRESERVE. provide access to clean water. LAND AS A LEGACY OF LOVE Here in Connecticut this year, we celebrated “As my mom got older, we were looking for the addition of 75 acres to TNC’s Connecticut a final gift that could be a fitting tribute to flagship Lucius Pond Ordway/Devil’s Den her lifelong love of the natural world,” Philip Preserve in Weston. Livingston says. “We were delighted when The addition was truly a labor of love for Marie Orsini Rosen (TNC Connecticut director of Dr. Philip Livingston, a trustee of both TNC philanthropy) told us about this opportunity.” in Connecticut and his family’s Tortuga Because of its history, Devil’s Den is a Foundation. A renowned conservationist and particularly meaningful spot for the family— philanthropist, Philip Livingston’s mother, the the new land acquisition will be named for late Joan Livingston Tweedy was also the niece Joan Livingston Tweedy. Located less than 60 of Katharine Ordway, a pioneering botanist miles from New York City, though, it’s also an who helped TNC protect numerous remarkable important place for countless others. places, including Devil’s Den—TNC’s “Because of where it is, Devil’s Den provides largest and most frequently visited real access to nature—and its tranquility and Connecticut preserve. wonder—to so many people,” he says. “To be The Tortuga Foundation made this year’s able to expand it a little bit was a privilege.” addition to Devil’s Den possible, with additional critical support provided by another family committed to land protection through their Summer Hill Foundation and other partners. IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE STATE, TNC ADDED 24 ACRES TO ITS BURNHAM BROOK PRESERVE IN EAST HADDAM, ADDING TO ITS RESILIENCY.

this page: Laurel Trail at the Devil’s Den Preserve in Connecticut ©TNC; TNC trustee Dr. Philip Livingston, the late Joan Livingston Tweedy and Patty Livingston at TNC’s Katharine Ordway Preserve © TNC (Cara Chancellor); Green darner dragonfly at Stamford © TNC (Joseph Molon) The Nature Conservancy’s A HOME ALONG THE HOLLENBECK FOR AMERICAN ELMS efforts to protect land and The Nature Conservancy’s Hollenbeck Preserve in Falls Village has long been home to meadow wildflowers, water for nature and people butterflies and a forest of conifers, red maple and black ash. Starting this year, the preserve will be home to CREATE RESILIENT something new: 30 disease-tolerant American elms along the Hollenbeck River. FORESTS AND PROTECT The trees are the product of an ambitious collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research OUR COASTLINE. Station and The Nature Conservancy to develop healthy American elms that can largely withstand Dutch elm disease—which, in the 20th century, ravaged the trees in the United States. Planted with help from volunteers and funding from the Manton Foundation, the new elms will provide benefits including soil stabilization, carbon dioxide uptake, and early spring flowering for pollinators. They’re among about 9,000 disease tolerant elms TNC and partners have planted throughout the New England region. A NEW ADDITION TO A GREAT “Last summer, the Zea family reduced overall lawn TRADITION IN NEW CANAAN treatments from 10 to three, as well as moving the treatments to late May and September when the lawn Getting involved with conservation is nothing new for can use fertilizer,” says Elizabeth Zea, who is married the New Canaan Garden Club—which traces its roots to former Connecticut trustee Michael Zea and whose to 1909. Part of the mission statement for the club, the children Ella and Mason also have been involved United States’ third oldest garden club, is to “promote with TNC. conservation and to encourage civic planning and beautification.” “The grass looks pretty much the same, but we had more birds, and fireflies and chipmunks this summer than The club’s roster of conservation commitments has we’ve ever seen before,” she says. “We also saved about ranged from holding tree sales to providing scholarships 60 percent on lawn care compared to prior years. It was for teachers and students to study conservation. really a win, win, win!” In 2019, thanks to the relationship between club Holly collaborates with agencies and coastal member Elizabeth Zea and TNC, the club added communities all around Long Island Sound, most increased awareness of nitrogen pollution in Long Island recently partnering, for example, in the Niantic River and Sound to that list. Stonington’s Little Narraganset Bay. Here she’s working Following an invitation, in January, Holly Drinkuth, TNC to demonstrate effective approaches for pollution Connecticut outreach and watershed projects director, reduction and to move people to action. Our larger Clean Please visit www.liswaterquality.org to learn presented to members about the negative impacts of Coastal Water goal is to share the information, strategies about more work TNC is doing and actions you nitrogen pollution from wastewater and fertilizers on and tools that local decision makers can use to help the can take to protect clean coastal water. streams, harbors and the oceans—and what people can Sound’s seagrass, tidal marsh, rivers, harbors and bays all do to reduce excess nitrogen. recover and thrive. Holly’s presentation—including discussion of modifying approaches to the use of lawn fertilizer— made an impact. THE CHAPTER COMPLETED AN EVALUATION OF THE EXTENT OF EELGRASS AND VESSEL USE PATTERNS AROUND FISHERS ISLAND, NEW YORK, WORKING WITH PARTNERS TO EVALUATE THE CONDITION OF THE EELGRASS ECOSYSTEM.

this page: ; Holly Drinkuth, Director of Outreach and Watershed Programs © TNC; Griswold Point Preserve, Old Lyme, Connecticut © TNC opposite page: TNC’s Kayla Patel and Sophie Duncan helping to plant disease-resistant elm trees at Hollenbeck preserve in Falls Village © TNC (David Gumbart); The Connecticut chapter’s Hollenbeck Preserve in winter © TNC (David Gumbart); Volunteers water newly planted trees at Hall Neighborhood House © TNC (Lucas Foglia) A WIN FOR FISH ON THE FALLS RIVER Projects to remove dams or build fishways can take years to materialize. After leading many, now TNC’s Director of River Restoration and Fish Passage Sally Harold lets herself exhale when work finally begins. In 2019, her sighs of relief came in August in Centerbrook when the Dolan Pond fishway construction got underway, and weeks later, when work began on John T. and Jane A. When dams can’t be removed, Wiederhold fishway at the Mill Pond dam The Nature Conservancy’s fishways—often a series of just up the Falls River. efforts to protect land and constructed connecting pools around “It’s a tremendous feeling to break ground on or over a dam—provide access to something special,” Harold says with feeling. water for nature and people upstream spawning habitat from which Design funds for both fishways were secured REVITALIZE OUR RIVERS. species such as alewife and blueback from National Fish and Wildlife Foundations herring are otherwise blocked. Long Island Sound Futures Fund. The Dolan Pond construction was supported by the Audubon Connecticut Wetland In-Lieu Fee program. The Mill Pond construction was supported by a grant from the John T. and Jane A. Wiederhold Foundation and the Electric Boat Mitigation Fund. Tom’s of Maine and the Essex Land Trust supported both projects. WE HELPED REMOVE THE OLD PAPERMILL DAM ON THE EAST ASPETUCK RIVER IN NEW MILFORD IN THE SPRING, REOPENING MORE RIVER MILES FOR FISH TO TRAVEL UPSTREAM.

this page: Blueback Herring artwork © Duane Raven; Old Papermill Dam removal © TNC; Bluebacks © TNC; Director of River Restoration & Fish Passage, Sally Harold © TNC

THE CHAPTER COMPLETED THE DOLAN POND DAM FISHWAY IN CENTERBROOK IN SEPTEMBER. THE CONNECTICUT CHAPTER HELPED INSTALL A NEW RAIN GARDEN AT BEARDSLEY ELEMENTARY The Nature Conservancy’s SCHOOL IN BRIDGEPORT TO CONTROL STORMWATER RUNOFF. BUILDING efforts to protect land and water for nature and people HEALTHY PROTECT OUR CITIES. Since the start of our urban conservation CITIES program over four years ago, The Nature Conservancy has risen to the challenge WE INSTALLED STAMFORD’S of making our world’s cities healthier and FIRST BIOSWALE AT RIPPOWAM more sustainable. PLACE IN SEPTEMBER TO CAPTURE AND CLEAN STORMWATER RUNOFF. COMMUNITY AND THE NEXT GENERATION OF CONSERVATIONISTS Now in nearly 30 cities across the country This year, the two organizations have been and globe, the urban conservation program working together—with a commitment to is using smart planning, science-based collaboration, trust and mutual learning— solutions and strong partnerships to make to expand both Groundwork Bridgeport’s the green cities of tomorrow resilient, work teaching young people about healthy and equitable, including right here landscape and garden design and TNC’s in Connecticut. support for community-driven greening Here in Bridgeport, the relationship between projects in the city. Groundwork Bridgeport, a 20-year-old Students are currently looking at ways community-based nonprofit organization, to enhance Harding High School with a and TNC has only grown stronger, says designed landscape. Groundwork Bridgeport Program Coordinator “The work is important because it is placing Tanner Burgdorf. Bridgeport youth in the role of the designer, Burgdorf first heard of TNC when he met thinker, creative force,” Burgdorf says. “This Urban Conservation Director Drew Goldsman means the students get to think critically about four years ago at an Arbor Day event. about how someone interacts with the At the time, the two organizations were just environment, and it encourages them to getting to know each other, and their first design spaces that intertwine people and collaborative tree plantings were still just the natural world.” around the corner.

opposite page: Students check out Beardsley rain garden in Bridgeport © TNC (Andrew Benson) this page: Bridgeport skyline © TNC SO MUCH GRATITUDE, SO MUCH HOPE YOUR DEDICATION HELPS The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut wishes to thank the following donors for their support and service in fiscal year 2019. This list represents those who have contributed at US TO MEET LOCAL AND least $1,000 between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, to the Conservancy’s local, national GLOBAL CHALLENGES and international conservation work.

$1,000,000+ John and Ellen Levinson / Family Charitable Trust Ω ‡ John and Lynn Sheppard, Jr. / Ms. Emily Fisher Ω ‡ Dr. Philip Livingston / Cannupa Foundation Ω ‡ Sunny Meadow Farm, LLC Sheppard Foundation Dr. James H. Heym and Tortuga Foundation Ω Dr. Elizabeth F. McCance / $25,000 - $49,999 $10,000 - $24,999 Dr. Lynn O. Wilkinson Ω $500,000 - $999,999 The McCance Foundation Ω The Late Paul Allaire and Ms. Tina Anonymous (1) Horizon Foundation Mr. Robert A. Jaeger Ω ‡ Mrs. Amy L. van der Velde Ω Allaire Ms. Mary M. Ackerly and Mr. J. Ms. Margaret (“Meg”) Kilgore ‡ The Manton Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Anne S. Richardson Fund Michael Sconyers Ω Mr. and Mrs. H. William $250,000 - $449,999 Anonymous (1) Mr. and Mrs. Mark Blackman Ms. Susan Bevan and Mr. Anthony Lichtenberger / Lichtenberger FN Anonymous (1) Community Foundation of Eastern / Louise B. Blackman Family Daddino / Bevan Daddino Mr. Henry D. Lord Ω ‡ The Late Catherine Goldschmidt Connecticut Foundation Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Moran Allen and Missy Rosenshine Ω‡ Community Foundation of The Late Ella Daney Ms. Leigh Bonney and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Royce John T. and Jane A. Wiederhold Middlesex County Mrs. Kathryn L. Hatfield-Mann Dr. Larry Ritzhaupt Ω ‡ Mr. Robert Wechsler and Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stewart H. Greenfield Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lehrman / Mr. William E. Butler Ms. Emily Aber The Late Alice Wolfe / The Stewart and Constance The Johnson-Stillman Family Dr. Rodrigo Canales and $1,000 - $9,999 $100,000-$249,999 Greenfield FoundationΩ ‡ Foundation Ms. Barbara Farell Ω ‡ Anonymous (6) Ms. Frances C. Ashley Ω ‡ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Johnson / Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Merrill / Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Frost / 1100 Harbor Road LLC Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burnett Ω Summer Hill Foundation Half Moon Foundation Ω Clarence and Anne Dillon Dr. Aryeh M. Abeles Marilyn Clements / The JPB Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Dunwalke Trust / Ms. B. M. M. Albanese Clements Foundation Ms. Patricia C. Kitchings / John Todd Miranowski Ω ‡ The Dillon Fund Marilyn N. Allan di Bonaventura / van Paasschen Kitchings Family Foundation NBCUniversal / Telemundo / Mr. Mark L. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. K. Tucker Andersen Family Fund Ω John D. and Catherine T. The Comcast Foundation Winkler Gosch and Mr. John Arendt Helen and David Jaffe / MacArthur Foundation Mark A. Perkins Esq. Ω ‡ Virginia Gosch Fund Mr. Paul Armond Jr. and The Jaffe Family FoundationΩ John and Lee Pritchard / Pritchard The Late Elizabeth Plummer Mr. Evan Griswold and Mr. Fred Harger ‡ Dr. Duffield A. Ashmead IV Fairfield County’s Community Ms. Jalna Jaeger and Ms. Juliette J. Meeus Ms. Emily Kroenlein LEGACY Mr. Gerald J. Aubrey Foundation Mr. David Callan Mr. and Mrs. Sanjeev Mehra Ω Ms. Karen C. Schneider Anonymous (33) Okan Azmak Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Fouracre Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Johnson Mr. Timothy Meyer Mr. Philip R. Scholly ‡ Victor and Cathy Alfandre Mr. Douglas R. Barile Frederick H. Bedford, Jr. and Peter and Linda Jokl Mr. Donald N. Millerbernd Mr. Matthew J. Segal Ms. Heather E. Allen Mrs. Sarah H. Barringer Margaret S. Bedford Bob and Karen Jones Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mnuchin / Mr. and Mrs. Peter Setlow Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Amidon Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bass Mr. and Mrs. Richard Freedman Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Katz The Mnuchin Foundation Ms. Catherine S. Setterlin ‡ Mrs. Louise K. Amidon Arthur Bell Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Fressola Eldridge and Helen Katzenbach Mr. Donald J. Montfort ‡ Purvi P. Shah Richard Anselmo Jr. Mrs. Frances H. Berger Mr. Michael Friedland and Ms. Mr. James J. Keller and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morgado / Ms. Sirely Shaldjian Ms. Andrea Argyros Mr. James R. Berger Lauri Levitt Friedland / Ms. Candice M. Chirgotis ‡ RJM and MLM Charitable Trust Mr. Richard Shanahan and Paul A. Armond Jr. Ms. Kathleen M. Brady The Winston Foundation, Inc. Dr. Katherine Kennedy Ms. Diantha Morse ‡ Ms. Jean Routt ‡ Frances C. Ashley Mr. and Mrs. John Brewer Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Friezo and The Honorable Cindy Murdock Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shiller / Peter J. Auster and Lisa C. Wahle Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Brodlie General Reinsurance Corporation Edward Kennedy Jr. Ω Mr. Paul Myerson and Robert and Virginia Shiller Ms. Betsy Austin Mr. David Bromwich and Mr. Bradford Gentry Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Kenyon Ω ‡ Ms. Giselle Wagner Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Baade Ms. Georgann Witte Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Robert Kettles Don and Sara Nelson Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Shore Ms. Sandra Ball Mr. and Mrs. David Buddington G. S. Beckwith Gilbert Mr. Kenneth K. Kidd Nestlé Waters North America Sieg R. Siegele Ms. Margaret D. Barnett Mr. Howard B. Bullard Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe Gjellstad Mr. Peter D. King Francis J. Nestor Dr. and Mrs. John Silander Ω Mrs. Charlotte P. Barringer Mr. and Mrs. Peter Burki Mr. Jeffrey H. Glans and Ms. Keitha L. Kinne Mr. Richard A. Newton Mr. Bruce D. Simonds Mr. Chris Bartholomew Mrs. Sandra W. Campbell Ms. Louise M. Perkins The Honorable and The Ms. Mary Nicholas Ms. Diana D. Simoni Mr. Mark Basile and Mr. and Mrs. Austin Carey Jr. Mr. David Gonci and Honorable Henry Kissinger Senator William Nickerson Carol Simpson and Bob Hewey Mr. Steven Schnepp Ms. Leslie Carothers Ω Ms. Noreen Cullen ‡ Mr. and Mrs. Chester W. Kitchings and Mrs. Jane Nickerson Ω Dr. David Skelly and Vasil Batsu Mr. and Mrs. John Carter Jr. Donald and Doina Gonci Jr. / Kitchings Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nissley Ms. Lauri Freidenburg Ω Ms. Tricia Bauer and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Case ‡ Mrs. Therese M. Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Steven Kohn Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Noe Mr. and Mrs. Mark Slane Mr. Bill Bozzone Ms. Karen Chance Grain Group LLC Mr. Bradford Korder Ms. Susan G. Oberstein Mr. and Mrs. John Stetson Joanna Baymiller Chang Family Mr. Gardner Grant, Jr. Dr. Robert Kruger and Mr. Stephen J. O’Dell Mr. and Mrs. William Stoddard Loftus E. Becker Ms. Diane M. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Ms. Heidi Palmer Odyssey Real Estate Mr. and Mrs. John Stover Claudia Bemis and Mrs. Sharon R. Clark Anthony P. Grassi Ω ‡ Ms. M. Lange Holdings Corp Mr. and Mrs. John Stover Robert Weinstein Ms. Helen F. Collins Mr. Richard Grellier and Mr. David Lavander Paula Oppenheim / Jon and Kathy Sturman Jeffrey Bieber Michael G. Considine Ms. Allison Cox Ms. Marta Jo Lawrence Oppenheim Family Fund Ms. Eleanor I. Sylvestro Frank Bifolche Dr. Roger D. Coutant Ms. Gene Groves Mr. and Mrs. Alain Lebec Ms. Joan G. Packer Mrs. Ashton M. Tenney Jr. ‡ Liv K. Biron Mr. Richard R. Crowle Ms. Gabrielle Guise and Ms. Susan R. Lehman Ms. Dale A. Parsons ‡ The Ferriday Fund Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Leo Black Tiffany B. Cunningham ‡ Mr. Jon Tiktinsky Leslie Fund, Inc. Robin S. Pellish The Friezo Family Foundation Diana N. Blair Dea Family Foundation Brent and Christine Haney Mr. Raymond W. Leyden People’s United Community The Murray Foundation Sandy Blake Mr. and Mrs. Dominic DeMarco Mr. and Mrs. Ron Harding Mr. Leonard F. Lombardi Foundation The Norman Foundation Mrs. Lynn Bodetka-Burke and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Denton Mr. John Hargraves and Ms. Erika Long Mr. and Mrs. Alan Perrie Neal Thomas Mr. Michael Burke Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Desmarais Ms. Nancy Newcomb / William O. Low Peter Dartley Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. David Thompson Jr. Leigh A. Bonney and Mr. Gregory F. Donahue Newcomb-Hargraves Lawrence and Dana Lunden ‡ Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pforzheimer III Thule Larry K. Ritzhaupt Ms. Sheila F. Donnelly Foundation Mr. Eric P. Lundin Ms. Sarah C. Picton Mr. Charles T. Treadway III Mr. and Mrs. Richard Booth Driesman Charitable Trust Ms. Diane H. Harrison Ms. Mitzi Lyman and Mr. and Mrs. John Podkowsky Ms. Androniki M. Tsairis Janet E. Booth Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Barnes and Mr. David Geronemus Mrs. June M. 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Leaman Judy and Jeff Moeckel Ms. Joan M. Reitz Thomas E. Stanton Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Crown Penelope and Raymond Heller Linda M. Leavens Dr. Michael D. Mollow Chris Richter Ms. Dawn L. Starr Noreen Cullen and David Gonci Lauren Emily Henderson David R. Lesieur Donald J. Montfort Cynthia Richter Mr. and Mrs. Donald Steckler Ms. Jan Cunningham Robert W. and Lorna Lamb Herdt Mr. John Leslie Jr. and Miss Franck H. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Blake Robinson Mr. Charles Steffens Jr. Tiffany B. Cunningham Carol S. Heubeck Ms. Caroline Pech Mr. William Moore Mrs. Kathryn L. Rockwell Mr. Tom R. Stio Mr. Neil W. Currie Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hewitt John and Ellen Levinson Mrs. Sue J. Moran Carlos Rodriguez Ms. Elizabeth Stone and Patricia De Renzo Jennifer G. Hillhouse Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lewis Steven G. Morrell and Mr. John E. Rogers Mr. Matthew Lipson Vincent Diana and Rosa Diana Norman and Priscilla Ann Hillman Steven M. Lewis Beverly Y. 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Ellsworth Roberta Hudson Lawrence and Dana Lunden Dorothy Obre Mr. William F. Russell Elizabeth Van Tuyl Mr. Robert L. Estep Constance Huebner and Sara B. Luongo Ms. Doreen O’Connell Mrs. Ellen Rutledge-Valenti Mr. and Mrs. John A. Vassallo Ms. Joan L. Faust Richard Kummer Mrs. Joyce P. Lyons Reverend William J. Olesik Frogard and Kevin Ryan Marilyn M. Virts Mary V. Feathers Mr. and Mrs. Brad Hurley Walter and Pauline Lyons Ms. Elisa M. Olsen Dr. and Mrs. Richard Sallick Thomas S. Wadlow Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fetzer Jane Jablonski Elinor J. MacDonald Mr. Stephen R. Olshewski Robert Sambone Patricia L. Wales Emily J. Fielding Robert A. Jaeger Mr. and Mrs. Rob Roy MacGregor Marie Orsini Rosen and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sandifer Joan Warren Ms. Lisa Fielding Ms. Alice B. Jansen Craig M. Machado Philip Rosen Ms. Zellene Sandler Scott Warren Tom Finan and Donna Eriksen Mrs. Muriel K. Jarmak Mr. and Mrs. David Malchman Mr. and Mrs. William Osgood Elden Sandoval Elizabeth T. Wassmundt Susan H. Fisher Kristin L. Johnson Ms. Patricia Malcolm-Alling Lawrence Ozga Jr. Tom Sargent Steve and Carol Watson Lowell Fitch and Lisa Bafumo Ms. Kristine Johnson Ms. Margaret Malval Katherine Paddon Paul A. Saubestre Marianne Wattley James P. Fogarty David L. Johnson and Linda Manning Carlos Padilla Dianne L. Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Daniels Weaver Dana and Elizabeth Foster Anita Krzykoski Frank W. Mantlik Jennifer B. Panosky Ms. Eleanor J. Saunders Myrna Weindling Ms. Barbara J. Fraser Mr. and Mrs. John Karabec Linda A. Mantlik Nancy C. Parker Virginia and David Schneider Ms. Sarah Kimberly Welch Mrs. Katharine F. Gaillard Mr. John Kashanski Sherry Marousek Ms. Dale A. Parsons Philip R. Scholly and Mr. David Levin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gaines Mr. Geoffrey Kaufman and Ms. Stephanie Marshall Mr. Robert A. Pensak Kenneth S. Sek Ms. Lea Gina White Bruce Glaser Penny Parsekian J. E. Martin Mark A. Perkins Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Setlow Neva P. White Mr. David M. Gliserman James Keller and Ms. Patsy Mason Joanne Perloff Ms. Catherine S. Setterlin Mr. and Mrs. Thurmon Whitley Andrew Good Candice Chirgotis Steven J. Mason Mr. Paul M. Petro Ms. Susan F. Shapiro Wilma and Thurmon Whitley Miss Genevra Goodwin Richard E. Kent Mr. Samuel D. Matos Carol Reed and Barbara Phelan Mr. and Mrs. Steven Shepstone Ms. Sarah J. Whitson Mrs. Therese M. Goodwin Bruce and Barbara Kenyon Carol J. Mawhinney Thomas S. and Halina P. Platt Alice Sheremeta James and Debra Wickwire Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gorman Shirley Kiefer Patrick and Mira McAree Amanda M. Pond Elizabeth Sheridan Mrs. Ramsey Wilson Amanda Gott Ms. Nancy C. Kindell David and Ingrid McCauley Donald W. Potter Marian Shilstone in memory of Ms. Laura R. Wirzulis Ms. Jeri Graham Mrs. W. R. Knapp Marcia N. McDonnell Ms. Nancy C. Prentis Frederick Shilstone Ms. DeAnne C. Wyant Anthony and Sally Grassi William Kobak and Cynthia Kobak Mr. William McGeorge Jr. Barbara and David Preston Ms. Susanne Shrader and Mrs. Christopher Young Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Myra Kreiman Ms. Mary Lou McGuire Mr. Christopher Preston Mr. Alan Lurie Gerald E. Zajac Stewart H. Greenfield Bob and Elise Kremer Peter McKnight Ms. Elizabeth Preston Gigi Simocko-Walker John A. Zaro David F. Gregorski Mary Ann Kulla Tim McMullen and Ms. Audrey Price and Christine M. Simon Michael Zea Ms. Laurel K. Griso Mrs. Vilma Kurzer Sheryl McMullen Mr. Michael Whelan Ann P. Simpson ESTATE Batchie - Fort Hill Farm Kyle Maggio Ben Weed - Roxbrook Farm Thimble Island Brewing Co. Terrence Mulcahey Anonymous (1) Judy and Al Burroughs Mark Mankin Bill and Bonnie Weed - University of Connecticut- Ousatonic Fish and Game Wilbur Beckwith Collin Campbell Anthony Markosky Roxbrook Farm Connecticut Sea Grant Protective Association Ella Daney John Carter Kenneth Markosky Kim Welch University of Stony Brook Read School, Bridgeport, CT Catherine Goldschmidt Bob Cochran Felice Martin - Nature View Farm Weston Volunteer Fire School of Marine and Newfield Realty Lucy Holcombe Andrew Cole Joe McCartin Department Atmospheric Sciences Resources Legacy Fund, Elizabeth Plummer Trina Dages Tom McDonnell Haley Woodard Valpak of Fairfield County Sacramento, CA Alice Wolfe Angela Dimmitt Becca McGee Joanne Woodard Village of Port Jefferson, NY Sacred Heard University GRANTOR George Discala Seamus McKeon Bud Wright Town of Westport Salem Land Trust AmeriCorps Eightmile River Watershed Jeriel Mezquita Mike Zegers PROJECT PARTNERS Save the Sound Audubon Connecticut In-Lieu Fee Partnership Volunteers Sean Miller EVENT SPONSORS Aquarion Water Company Southeastern Connecticut EB Mitigation Fund Peter Faber Clay Minor Susan Bevan and Tony Daddino Audubon Alliance for Coastal Enterprise Region Long Island Sound Study / Ann Fisher David Moore Town of Branford Waterbirds United States Fish and Environmental Protection Tim Fornero Jeff Moore Branford Land Trust Audubon Connecticut Wildlife Service Agency Blue Plan Tim Francis Lisa Newman Eunice and Robert Burnett City of Bridgeport, CT United States Geological Survey National Fish and Wildlife Liba Furhman Austin Planz CG Direct Marketing Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust WildCoast, Imperial Beach, CA Foundation - Long Island Sound Joseph Gagne Justin Planz Connecticut Port Authority Centerbrook Architects IN KIND GOODS AND Futures Fund Chris Goodman Rick Planz Connecticut River Gateway Clean Up Sound and Harbors SERVICES Tom’s of Maine Paul Greenberg Andy Porier Commission (CUSH) Ted and Donna Boccuzzi United States Fish and Wildlife Samuel Greenburg Tim Pullen Town of Darien Connecticut Department of Rodrigo Canales, Ph.D. Service Chris Hanners Darrell Richter Department of Energy and Energy and Environmental Centerbrook Architects United States Fish and Wildlife Kathryn Hastings Salmon River Watershed Environmental Protection- Protection Connecticut Department of Service GE Housatonic Mark Hiller Partnership Volunteers Marine Fisheries Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Mitigation Fund Paul Hiller Karla and William Schultz Earthplace Energy and Environmental Protection Fisheries Division INTERNS Wendy Hill Anna Schürkmann Henry L. Ferguson Museum, Protection Fisheries Division Eight Mile River Watershed Rachael Harris Penny Howell-Heller Bill Sennett Fishers Island, NY Connecticut Sea Grant Partnership Volunteers VOLUNTEERS Jim Izzo Cathy Setterlin Fishers Island Community Center Eightmile River Wild and Scenic Henry L. Ferguson Museum, Jane Aldieri Bob Johnson Sarah and Steve Shabet David Jaffe Coordinating Committee Fishers Island, NY Sally Amer Susan Kazanjian Steve Solly Lower CT River Valley Council Henry L. Ferguson Museum, Larry Fischer Julie Bailey Anne Kehmna Justin Solis of Governments Fishers Island, NY Marandola Fuel Services Kathleen Barbosa Colin Kelly Lisette Stone Marandola Fuel Services Fishers Island Conservancy Mohamed Saleh Ted Boccuzzi Damien Kessler Deb and Bill Stuart Jr. - Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Merrill Grace Farms Foundation Overhead Door Company of Jack Bradley Chris Kimberly Stuart Family Farm Middlesex Community College Greenwich International Brookfield Eileen Breslin Ryan Kosiba David Studwell Town of Milford Film Festival Saugatuck River Fish Counter Tracy Brock Anthony Markosky Diane Swanson - Town of Old Saybrook Groundwork Bridgeport Monitoring Volunteers Howard Bronson Kenneth Markosky The Pratt Nature Center Mara and Christopher Shore Hall Neighborhood House WildCoast, Imperial Beach, CA Eric Brown Billy Kuba Lisa Tryon Suffolk County Department of Lyme Land Trust Doug Brusch Shawn LaLond Danielle Van Doren Economic Development and Make the Road Connecticut Paul Buccialgia and Rebecca James Larsen Jack Wallace Planning Middlesex Community College

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