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SUMMARY:Connecticut Trails Day (weekend)
DESCRIPTION:Come to the park the weekend of June 7 & 8 and particpate in Connecticut Trails Day  \nJune 7 – CT Trails Day \n\n8:30am – 10:30am Kayak survey of the salt marsh to find diamondback Terrapins\n\n\nPaddling is the best way to explore the salt marsh. Join us to count Diamondback Terrapins with Maggie Cozens\, CT Sea Grant outreach coordinator\, and document birds using iNaturalist. Bring your own kayak\, canoe\, or other paddlecraft\, as well as a life vest and whistle/horn\, required by CT state boating regulations. It’s a long carry over the beach\, so bring a kayak cart if you have one. We will help each other. Your leader is a retired Coastal Kayak Instructor with twenty years teaching experience. Optional: Bring waterproof binoculars for spotting birds\, and/or a waterproof camera. \n\n\n\n12:00 pm (noon) Butterfly Walk – meet at the Nature Center.\n\n\nJoin butterfly hobbyist Michele Sorensen to explore the gardens and natural areas around the Park’s Nature Center in search of caterpillars\, skippers\, moths and butterflies. We may see Mourning Cloak\, Pearl Crescent\, Question Mark\, Monarch\, Cabbage White\, Orange or Clouded Sulphurs\, tiny Gray Hairstreaks & Blues\, and Black or Tiger Swallowtails. Michele leads the Friends’ Garden Team\, which has installed hundreds of native plants to attract butterflies and birds. \nBring binoculars and a camera or smartphone. You’ll learn how to report your findings on iNaturalist so scientists anywhere can see how these insects are doing. Children are welcome. \n\n\n\n\nJune 8 – CT Trails day \n\n1:00pm Archeological Walk – A walk through Historical & Archaelogical time\n\n\nJoin us for a family friendly\, educational walk on the Sherwood Island History Trail led by Archaeologists Dawn Brown and Ernie Wiegand. Travel through time starting at the Ice Age when LI sound was formed. You’ll see points of historic interest and examine the traces of past inhabitants of Sherwood Island\, from Native Americans in 1000 B.C. to onion farmers of the 1940s. Artifacts\, maps\, old photos\, and recent recoveries will be used to bring the island’s past inhabitants to life. \n\n\n\n3:30pm Beach to Beach Walk\n\n\nDiscover Sherwood Island with Louis Pietig! Go beach to beach and discover habitats\, inhabitants\, and special features – 9/11 Memorial\, Model Airport\, wetlands\, pine forest – of this waterfront Gateway park. We’ll start at the Nature Center and end at the Pavilion. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is suggested/required for each CT Trails day event. Please use Trailsday.org or the links shown below. \nhttps://trailsday.org/events/kayak-paddle-survey-terrapins-and-birds-in-the-marsh/ \nhttps://trailsday.org/events/island-butterfly-walk/ \nhttps://trailsday.org/events/a-walk-through-historical-and-archeological-time/ \nhttps://trailsday.org/events/beach-to-beach-an-island-walk-for-friends-and-families/
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SUMMARY:Friends of Sherwood Island Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our Annual Meeting on Sunday\, June 8th at 4 pm at the Nature Center. Meet and vote for the 2025-2026 Board and Officers. \nGuest Speaker: Jo-Marie Kasinak\, M.S\, Assistant Teaching Professor\, Department of Biology\, Sacred Heart University \n“Project Limulus: 27 years of horseshoe crab research\, education\, and conservation” \nBy training Jo-Marie Kasinak is an aquatic ecologist working in both freshwater and marine habitats. Currently she is collaborating on a restoration project in Stratford CT\, the goal of which is to restore the intertidal habitat and coastal upland at the site. Reef balls and oyster castles have been added to the intertidal zone and salt marsh grasses have been planted. In the upland\, hundreds of trees\, shrub\, and pollinator habitats have been planted as well. Kasinak is also the Director of Project Limulus\, a long term and large scale study of the horseshoe crab population in Long Island Sound. Each year Project Limulus hosts dozens of talks and beach walks where they educate hundreds of children and adults about horseshoe crabs and the Long Island Sound ecosystem. For the past few years Kasinak has been collaborating with researchers from Southern Connecticut State University\, the University of Connecticut\, and Cardiff University (Wales)\, to explore Ocean Identity and how ocean spaces impact people. This marine social science project is using the education and outreach program of Project Limulus as a test bed for the survey designed to mean Ocean Identity. For more information on Project Limulus visit www.projectlimulus.org\, for more information on Ocean Identity visit www.oceanidentity.org. \nTo be Held at the Nature Center at Sherwood Island State Park\, Westport\, CT \nDirectly off I-95 Exit 18 Sherwood Island Connector) \nFree Admission    Refreshments \nBring your binoculars for birding from the porch at 3 pm. Use our spotting scope to check in on our resident Osprey. See if you can spot a Bald Eagle. Observe the Purple Martins caring for young in the colony nest boxes right in front of the Nature Center.
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SUMMARY:Meet and Greet with Smoky Bear!
DESCRIPTION:Meet and Greet with Smokey Bear\nCome visit Sherwood Island Nature Center to meet Smokey Bear and some of his wildland firefighters to learn about forest fire prevention in CT \n 
URL:https://friendsofsherwoodisland.org/event/meet-and-greet-with-smoky-bear/
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SUMMARY:Watch the Turtles Have Their Lunch - Daily from 2pm to 3pm
DESCRIPTION:Do you love turtles? Come to the Nature Center everyday from 2pm to 3pm to watch the turtles have their lunch and learn about the different species of turtles that live in CT\, specifically at Sherwood Island\, and what to do when you find one.
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