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- Highstead Interpretive Trail Guide: A Self-guided Tour of a Southwestern Connecticut Landscape
- Native Tree & Shrub Walk: A Self-guided Tour of Woody Plants Growing in Their Native Habitats
- The Kalmia Collection: A Self-guided Tour of Mountain Laurel and Companion Plants
- The Azalea Collection:A Self-guided Tour of the North American Deciduous Azaleas
- The Clethra Collection: A Self-guided Tour of Native and Cultivated Sweet Pepperbush
- Woodland Project: A Demonstration of Woodland Management Techniques
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Acting Locally - A Working Model
David Foster, Director of Harvard Forest and Bill Labich, Regional Conservationist of Highstead lay out the arguments and successes of creating a working model to think globally while acting locally. For New England and most of the eastern United States, there is a direct link between effective forest protection and management and the global environment. As a consequence of sub-continental reforestation and growth since the 19th Century, residents across this region have a second chance to determine the fate of their natural landscape. The forests that blanket this region are young and growing rapidly, storing globally important amounts of carbon and thereby thwarting global climate change. Protecting these forests and managing them to produce products and store additional carbon will bring immense benefits to local communities and the world. The Wildlands and Woodlands proposal to protect and manage 50% of southern New England in forests provides a mechanism for achieving such ambitious local and global goals. See the entire chapter below.
Foster, D.R. and W. Labich. 2008. A Wildland and Woodland Vision for the New England Landscape: Local Conservation, Biodiversity and the Global Environment. Pp 155-175. In R.A. Askins et al. (eds.), Saving Biological Diversity. Springer.
Douglas Ladd1, Richard C. Harris2, William R. Buck3. 2009. Lichens and related fungi of Highstead Arboretum, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Opuscula Philolichenum, 6: 81–86.
Oswald, W.W., D.R. Foster, E.D. Doughty, and E.K. Faison (2009) A record of lateglacial and early- Holocene environmental and ecological change from southwestern Connecticut, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science 24: 553-556.
Faison, E.K., G. Motzkin, D.R. Foster, and J.E. McDonald. 2010. Moose foraging in the temperate forests of southern New England. Northeastern Naturalist 17: 1-18.
DeStefano, S., Faison, E., Compton, J., and D. Wattles. 2010. Forest exclosures: an experimental approach to understanding browsing by moose and deer. Massachusetts Wildlife 2: 14-23.
Highstead is a supporter and contributer in Wildlands and Woodlands initiative to call for a bold new land protection effort to stave-off accelerating forest fragmentation. View the reports and progress at www.wildlandsandwoodlands.org .
