Granby Land Trust
Granby Land Trust — October 2025
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Annual Juried Art Show — Oct. 30 to Nov. 30, Annual Meeting & Community Supper, Oct. 19
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GLT earns national accreditation—again
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One thing that unites us as a nation is land: Americans strongly support saving the natural spaces they love. Since 1972, the Granby Land Trust (GLT) has been doing just that for the people of Granby.
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Author-led hike at Dismal Brook a big success
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On June 3, as part of Connecticut Trails Day Weekend, the Granby Land Trust hosted Michael Wojtech, author of Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast, for a guided walk on the GLT’s Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve in North Granby.
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New GLT trail opens in North Granby: Visit the Emery/Hart Trail on the Seth and Lucy Holcombe Preserve
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The Granby Land Trust (GLT) is excited to announce that its new Emery/Hart Trail to the Crag Mountain Lookout is now open. This is an incredible addition to the Seth and Lucy Holcombe Preserve trail system, with spectacular views to the south, east and west.
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Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve a haven for birds
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The Granby Land Trust’s (GLT) annual spring migration bird walks at the Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve delivered exciting sightings again this Mother’s Day weekend. Despite the somewhat windy conditions, participants identified 50 bird species on Sunday and 48 species on Monday.
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GLT hosts spring ephemeral walk
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On a beautiful late April evening, GLT member Aubrey Schulz helped a group of 24 participants locate and identify spring ephemeral plants on the GLT’s Mary Edwards Mountain Property in North Granby.
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Granby Land Trust volunteers cleaned Granby’s roadsides
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More than 100 Granby Land Trust (GLT) members and friends fanned out across Granby over the course of Earth Day weekend, picking up roadside trash from more than 50 miles of road as part of the GLT’s fourth annual Earth Day Roadside Cleanup.
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Get to know trees at Dismal Brook Wildlife Preserve
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On Connecticut Trails Day, Sunday, June 8, from 12 to 2 p.m., naturalist, writer, speaker, photographer and illustrator Michael Wojtech will help us see trees in ways we may not have noticed before.
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Emery and Hart families make key gifts to Granby Land Trust
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In the past few months, two generous and forward-thinking Granby families together donated 73 acres to the land trust—land that is contiguous with property already protected.
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Emery and Hart families gift land to GLT
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As author, planner and conservationist William H. Whyte said in a 1962 report to then Connecticut Governor Dempsey, “Saving the ridges would be an act of imagination, but what is at stake is close to Connecticut’s identity, and once gone is without price.”