The Barrington Town Council voted in February 2022 to preserve a "paper road" that provides access to the Town's undeveloped 32-acre property, Tall Cedars. The Barrington Land Conservation Trust spoke in favor of this decision. This strip of land may be an important corridor for wildlife. When open space becomes fragmented, it becomes more difficult [...]
This March, our free monthly walk takes us to PIC-WIL Nature Preserve, a 17-acre expanse of forest, field, salt marsh and coastal dunes on the east shore of the Providence River in Barrington, RI. We're holding three walks near the time of low tide: Thursday, March 23, Saturday, March 25, and Sunday, March 26. To [...]
FrogWatch Training Takes Place Feb. 19 By Norman Dudziak, P.E., I.M. FrogWatch is an opportunity to take part in scientific projects for your own enrichment while contributing to science. You can join a growing community of “citizen scientists” who help to expand our body of scientific knowledge by crowdsourcing data collection. In citizen science, an [...]
The Fall 2022 Newsletter is getting mailed out this week, and if you just want to read it online, click here or on the thumbnail image below. If you want our newsletters emailed directly to you every quarter, fill out the form on our website here and we’ll add you to the list (you can [...]
The Spring 2022 Newsletter is getting mailed out this week, and if you just want to read it online, click here or on the thumbnail image below. If you want our newsletters emailed directly to you every quarter, fill out the form on our website here and we’ll add you to the list (you can [...]
After a two-year hiatus, the Barrington Land Conservation Trust Annual Meeting will be held in-person at the Barrington Public Library on June 7 at 6:30 PM in the auditorium. The guest speaker will be Virginia Brown, author of Dragonflies and Damselflies of Rhode Island, an atlas of all the odonate species found in the state [...]
The Spring 2022 Newsletter is getting mailed out this week, and if you just want to read it online, click here or on the thumbnail image below. If you want our newsletters emailed directly to you every quarter, fill out the form on our website here and we’ll add you to the list (you can [...]
This week is the Barrington Public School February vacation week, which means it's time for the annual Look & Find Family Nature Walk at Osamequin! This event is a joint effort of the BLCT and the Barrington Public Library. From the Library event page: "Take advantage of this week-long outdoor Look & Find Family Nature [...]
The Winter 2022 Newsletter is getting mailed out this week, and if you just want to read it online, click here or on the thumbnail image below. If you want our newsletters emailed directly to you every quarter, fill out the form on our website here and we’ll add you to the list (you can [...]
Back in December, a group of Barrington High School students led by BLCT volunteers Cindy Pierce, Ellen Berren, Sara Horvet and Victor Lerish went into Sowams Woods to cut back prickers from the wild blueberry bushes. The BLCT is an all-volunteer organization, and we rely on the generosity of the Barrington community to keep our [...]
