Landscape/Environment

Grating the Nutmeg 115 – America’s First Public Rose Garden: Elizabeth Park
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Surveying Connecticut’s Borders
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CT History for Kids: Hats Off to Birds and Beavers
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2021 Sometimes, what we wear has a devastating impact on…

Fish, Game & Forest Conservation Through Time
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Saving Historic Family Farms
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Site Lines: Rocky River Hydroelectric Plant
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The Mohegan Petition of 1789: “One Dish and One Fire Will Not Do”
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Our Historic Salt Marshes
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Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge
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Connecticut’s Agricultural Experiment Station
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When Connecticut’s Rivers Ran Black
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Trees as Memorials and Witnesses to History
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Environmental History — Spring 2021
VOLUME 19/NUMBER 2/Spring 2021 $6.25 IN THIS ISSUE: Connecticut’s Only National Wildlife Refuge > Saving…

The Energy of Our Great River
by Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In an…

Destination: Luddy/Taylor Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum
By Cynthia Cormier (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. May/Jun/Jul 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Shade-grown tobacco leaf…

Wickham Park in Manchester
By Maureen Welch (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! With its pagoda,…

Off the Streets & Into the Parks
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Eyewitness Account of the Flood of 1936
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12,500-Year-Old Paleoindian Site Discovered
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The Great White Hurricane of 1888
By Rachel Smith Hale (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When snow…

Philip Johnson’s 50-Year Experiment in Architecture and Landscape
By Gwen North Reiss (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Architect Philip…

Unburying Hartford’s Native and African Family Histories
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Site Lines: Grave Deeds and Abandoned Cemeteries
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Who Owns Lebanon’s Town Green?
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Dinosaur State Park: Small State with Big Footprints
By Krista Karlson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The rift was…

No Day at the Beach
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Yes In My Backyard: Photos of Connecticans at Rest
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Connecticut’s Contested 17th Century Landscape
By Brian Jones and Kevin McBride (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2019 From the early…

Saving Long Island Sound
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Why We Need Beavers
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Celebrating Windmills
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Summer 2019: Land, Contested
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Spring 2019: Water–Connecticut’s Big Story
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Frederick Law Olmsted in Connecticut
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Connecticut’s Historic Rose Gardens
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Site Lines: Birdcraft
By Elizabeth Rose (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2017 SUBSCRIBE/Buy the Issue One of the…
The Gold Rush: John E. Brockett Goes for the Gold
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2016-2017 SUBSCRIBE/Buy the Issue! John Eli Brockett…

The Two-Million-Dollar Map
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Connecticut’s Park and Forest Pioneers
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Yale’s Dinosaur Dynasty
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Sam Colt Mines the Arizona Territory
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From the State Historian: When The West Was North
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Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape
By Tobias Glaza and Paul Grant-Costa (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

Taking a Ride Down the Hog River
by Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On an unseasonably…

The Influence of Connecticut in the American West
By Leah S. Glaser (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Winter 2016-2017 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut Explored…

Connecticut’s Historic Trails
By Christine Woodside (c) Connecticut Explored SUMMER 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Here’s an irony: without…

“Gosh, what’s the world coming to?” Connecticut’s First Female Game Warden
By Mark Jones with Nancy O. Albert (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2006 Subscribe/Buy the…

Beatrix Farrand’s Connecticut Gardens
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Soapbox: Take a Hike! Discover Connecticut’s Historic Landscapes
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Litchfield’s Fortunes Hitched to the Stagecoach
By Lynne Brickley (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Spring 2008 Subscribe to receive every issue! From…