Flatbread Hosts Canton Land Trust Benefit Oct. 7

Support Canton Land Trust and have adelicious dinner at the same time, Tuesday, Oct. 7 at Flatbread Pizza.

Dine in or order out, and the Canton Land Conservation Trust will receive a portion of the night’s pizza sales. Flatbread has lots to choose from including gluten-free pizza.

Flatbread is located at The Shoppes at Farmington Valley in Canton.

Diners who choose to dine in will have the opportunity to learn more about the Land Trust’s 2,000 acres, including activities, wildlife and trails.

Diners who choose to take out can call (860) 693-3314.

About The Canton Land Conservation Trust

The Canton Land Conservation Trust (CLCT) is a non-profit corporation chartered in 1972 to preserve natural resources in the Town of Canton. Starting with a $1500 grant from the Ford Foundation, CLCT’s earliest activities were designed to inform Canton residents of the its mission, to build support and membership, and to solicit donations of money and/or land.

In the mid 1970s CLCT received the first of its large parcels. The Smith and Capen properties provide sanctuary for wildlife as well as places to hike and to observe and enjoy nature. In 1985 the Land Trust received a gift of 108 acres on Ratlum Mountain from Thomas M. Perry. Over the next decade, several additional gifts from the Thomas M. Perry Charitable Trust provided protection for almost 500 acres of mature and secondary forest. These generous gifts form a large, contiguous sanctuary in the Breezy Hill/Ratlum Mountain area, where much of Canton’s songbird population and other wildlife species that require large, unfragmented areas away from residential and industrial activity to raise their young in relative safety, especially from predators such as raccoons, crows, and house cats.

In 1996 CLCT received from the estate of Mary Conklin a beautiful 107-acre tract of woodland and meadow on Indian Hill Road. The Mary Conklin Sanctuary, which includes the building that was the home of Mary Conklin, has been enrolled in the Connecticut Forest Stewardship Incentive Program, and is being managed according to a plan based on a detailed inventory of the forest. The principal footpath through the Sanctuary is the Ramon Smith Trail, named in honor and memory of former CLCT president, Ray Smith.

Through the years, the Land Trust has enjoyed the support of Canton’s town government. The Board of Selectmen, the Finance Committee, the Town Planner’s Office, and the Conservation, Inland Wetlands, Planning and Zoning committees have all been steadfast supporters of the CLCT and its goals. The commitment of these bodies has been and continues to be crucial to CLCT’s success.

Today, CLCT owns nearly 2,000 acres of undeveloped property and property subject to conservation easements. These holdings make CLCT one of the largest land trusts in Connecticut in terms of the area of property held.

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