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Ct Woodlands CONNECTICUT Woodlands ROADKILL: ANIMALS’ ENCOUNTERS WITH ASPHALT The Magazine of t he Connecticut Forest & Park Association Summer 2007 Volume 72 Number 2 CONNECTICUT Woodlands The Magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association The Connecticut Forest & Park Association, Inc. Officers PRESIDENT , Richard Whitehouse, Glastonbury VICE -P RESIDENT AND TREASURER , Gordon L. Anderson, Glastonbury VICE -P RESIDENT , Eric Lukingbeal, Granby VICE -P RESIDENT , David Platt, Higganum SECRETARY -F ORESTER , Adam R. Moore, Durham Directors Mark Ashton, New Haven Richard A. Bauerfeld, Branford Russell L. Brenneman, Westport George M. Camp, Middletown Starling W. Childs, Norfolk Ruth Cutler, Ashford Laurence Diamond, Coventry Caroline Driscoll , New London Astrid T. Hanzalek, Suffield Jean Crum Jones, Shelton David Leff, Collinsville James W. Little, Hebron Geoffrey Meissner, Southington Karen Mignone, Fairfield Thomas Mongillo, North Branford Courtesy of Eric Bengtson Randall Miller, Hamden A Connecticut Forest & Park Association trail volunteer, Mary Kaley, helps clear the Brian O’Connor, Westbrook blue-blazed six-mile Aspetuck Valley Trail, which was dedicated on June 1 by state offi - Stephen C. Parsons, Cheshire cials, CFPA, and the Nature Conservancy. The trail in Redding, Newtown, and Easton Donald L. Snook, Westport is in the Centennial Watershed State Forest set up in 2002 after the state of Connecticut David Sullivan, Haddam and the Nature Conservancy bought and obtained conservation easements for Aquarion Colin Tait, Norfolk Water Company land. For another photo, see page 5.Aspetuck Valley Trail. Sally L. Taylor, Quaker Hill Conserving Connecticut Annual Membership Honorary Directors Harrol W. Baker, Jr., Bolton The Connecticut Forest & Park Association is a Individual $ 35 Richard F. Blake, Milford private, non-profit organization dedicated since Family $ 50 Clyde S. Brooks, Glastonbury 1895 to conserving the land, trails, and natural Supporting $ 100 Ann M. Cuddy, Lakeville resources of Connecticut. Benefactor $ 250 Samuel G. Dodd, Mansfield Center The Connecticut Forest & Park Association is Mrs. Reynolds Girdler, Stamford affiliated with the National Wildlife Federation, Life Membership $ 2500 John E. Hibbard, Hebron the National Woodland Owners Association, Philip H. Jones, Jr., Shelton George M. Milne, Hebron the American Hiking Society, and Earth Share. Corporate Membership Edward A. Richardson, Glastonbury Club $ 50 David M. Smith, Hamden Connecticut Woodlands Nonprofit $ 75 L.P. Sperry, Jr., Middlebury Published quarterly by the Sustaining $ 100 Henry H. Townshend, New Haven Connecticut Forest & Park Association, Landmark $ 250 Middlefield, 16 Meriden Road, Rockfall, CT Stewardship $ 500 Staff 06481-2961. Leadership $1000 Executive Director, Adam R. Moore, Durham Trail Conservation Coordinator, Ann T. Colson, Clinton Indexed in the Connecticut Periodical Index, Development Coordinator, Starr Sayres, East Haddam ISSN 00106257. Administrative Coordinator, Teresa Peters, Durham Telephone: 860-346-2372. Land Conservation Coordinator, Katherine D. Winslow, Middletown Fax 860-347-7463. Education Coordinator, Lori Paradis Brant, Beacon Falls E-mail address: [email protected] Administrative Assistant, Linda Cunningham , Portland World Wide Web site: http://www.ctwoodlands.org EDITOR , Christine Woodside Printed on recycled paper GRAPHIC DESIGNER , Karen Ward 2 CONNECTICUT WOODLANDS Summer 2007 CONNECTICUT Woodlands The Magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association Summer 2007 Volume 72 Number 2 Contents FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 11 Roadkill: Animals’ Encounters with 4 Executive Director’s Message. Considering Asphalt. Animals cannot safely cross the what the 1950s left behind. By Adam R. 3,732-mile road network of Connecticut. Moore. Many studies show that for many species Thoughts on green roads are major predators. By Christine 5 President’s Message. Woodside. living. By Richard Whitehouse. 6 Trail Mix. Congress considers National 15 Wildlife v. Pavement. Selected statistics on Scenic Trail. A new Blue-Blazed Hiking the struggles of mammals, reptiles, and Trail in Fairfield County. Reports of trail amphibians to live with roads. maintenance workshops. Identify the mys - tery photograph. 18 Connecticut’s ‘temperate’ forests actually 21 Try This Hike. Mount Pisgah on the resemble tropical ones. Old European Mattabesett Trail in Durham. principles often don’t work in managing these woodlands. How young trees grow 22 Tree Page. The white ash. up beneath the older ones. By David M. Current prices for stand - Smith, professor emeritus of silviculture. 25 Stumpage Report. ing timber. 26 Book Review. Colin Tudge’s encyclopedic book The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter. By Robert Ricard. 27 From the Archives. In the depths of the Great Depression, a conservation publisher sets a course. 28 Essential Facts of Life. It’s not safer indoors: naming and dealing with risks in nature. By Lori Paradis Brant. 30 From the Land. The history and wonder of the tomato, from a self-proclaimed tomato fiend. By Jean Crum Jones. 32 Programs 33 News of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association. Environmental issues CFPA is following at the statehouse. Lori Brant On the cover: receives honor. New Blue-Blazed Hiking Trail opens. No animal travels far in 39 CFPA Store. Buy books, T-shirts, and hats. Connecticut without running into one of the roughly 3,732 miles of 40 Development News. Recognizing CFPA roads. donors. Istockphoto.com 42 Profile: Heritage Society donor was the first man to hike the entire Appalachian Trail in the winter. Summer 2007 CONNECTICUT WOODLANDS 3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE CONSIDERING WHAT THE 1950 S LEFT BEHIND Cuddled up as a family, at the drive-in By ADAM R. MOORE “Runaround Sue” spun on let us acknowledge the environmental mistakes the turntable and in that we are making in the present decade, and o get an evening started off right, between them the theater’s let us strive to retain what was good about the you can’t beat the Big Bopper. So it announcer, a woman with a 1950s. Thappened at dusk on the Friday of pleasant Willimantic voice, In the category of what was good and worth Memorial Day weekend. The Moore family – said things like, “Take the retaining, I count a sense of national optimism. or the S’Moores, in Great Park Pursuit game family and come early, let I count the music. On the landscape, I count parlance – pulled off of Route 32 in Mansfield, the kids play on our play - roadside restaurants such as Shady Glen and tuned the radio to 88.1 FM, and at once heard ground.” Or, “Don’t for - Guida’s. And I count the drive-in movie the - the Big Bopper singing the jolly, 1950s rock Ann Colson get to visit our snack bar – aters, at least the two Connecticut has left, in Executive Director and roll tune “Chantilly Lace.” My wife and I how about a chili dog? Or Mansfield and Pleasant Valley. Adam R. Moore exchanged smiles, the children put their hands a cup of chili?” This must When Melissa and the girls returned, we up and wiggled under their seatbelts, and I be the only movie snack bar moved the minivan to a spot with a slightly bet - merged into one of the lanes of cars in front of that serves clam fritters. Of course, at the drive-in, ter view. We unfolded lawn chairs and set them me. We were out for a classic American evening you can also bring your own: we brought two up behind the car. We opened the tailgate and – a drive-in movie. bags of popcorn we’d made at home and some sat the 3- year old and 6-year-old on the fold - That evening was one of our two or three iced tea. ed-down rear seat. We dug into the paper bag ventures a summer to the Mansfield Drive-In. The drive-in movie theater is a remnant of the of popcorn. We watched the sun dissolve into The Mansfield Drive-In is one of two remain - 1950s, a decade that most conservationists lament. the western horizon and a waxing gibbous ing drive-in movie theaters in Connecticut, the It was a decade that produced horrible, box-like moon shine through a veil of clouds. The other being the Pleasant Valley Drive-In. architecture. It created the sprawling suburban movie began, and we tossed blankets over our Recent accounts in the Hartford Courant indi - subdivision. Car culture. The interstate highway legs and huddled together, a family. cate that both are doing well, either in spite of system. The decade began something else in our or because of the closure of every other drive- culture, a throwaway, disposable mentality, some - in in the state. The six, or maybe eight, lines of thing I have heard described as a Kleenex culture. cars filing in demonstrated that this particular Paper napkins instead of cloth, disposable diapers, drive-in is thriving. paper tissues instead of handkerchiefs, etc. Food We were in line beside a Jeep with the top off came pre-processed and mass-marketed, trends and a little girl in the back, a guy on a shiny red Jean Jones describes so well in her “From the scooter with a folding chair slung over his back, Land” column in this magazine. The consumer a van – not a minivan like ours, but a real van, culture that began then turned thrift into a vice the eyebrow-raising kind with curtains on the rather than a virtue. The good inclination to save tinted windows – and dozens of other vehicles and reuse items became twisted, resulting in clut - full of families like ours. We were already cheer - ter, because so many items, so much stuff, is ful due to the Big Bopper, and our mood dumped upon us. Prodigal purchasing became the improved when the attendant didn’t charge us virtue, and an engine of our economy. for the two youngest kids. We drove through Fortunately, these trends seem to be turning, the vast dirt parking lot, following the signs to and our culture seems to be changing.
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