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Agendas are available prior to the meetings. Minutes are available following approval.
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Initiatives & Activities
The Westbrook Conservation Commission currently has several Open Space initiatives and different activities, including the following areas.
Open Space Planning
- Develop an Open Space Plan based on POCD Open Space Vision
- Identify and prioritize lands essential for protecting water resources, establishment of greenways, and watershed management
- Link open spaces with greenways and trails, locally and regionally
Open Space Management
- Salt Island Overlook
- Control invasive plants
- Restore coastal forest
- Salt Island
- Protect coastal bird nesting sites
- Stabilize erosion caused by coastal storms
- Horse Hill Woods
- Parking area of storm Sandy damage
- Horse Hill Gorge
- Identify, develop parking area
- Chapman Mill Pond
- Clear and fill ruts on emergency road
- Design parking area
- Protect lake water quality
- Protect vernal pools
- Stannard Woods
- Post No Hunting/Motorized Vehicle signs
- Town Forest
- Work with Forest Commission on curbing all-terrain vehicle (ATV) use
- Continue efforts to curb ATV and other motorized vehicle use on Town owned Open Space Lands
- Maintenance of Open Space Trails
- Clear damage from storm Sandy
- Update trail marking
- Utilize GPS for mapping and posting on Town website
Organize Community Groups to Assist with Open Space Management
- Formation of a "Friends of Westbrook’s Barrier Islands" Group to assist Commission, DEEP and U.S. Fish and Wildlife to manage Salt Island, Duck Island, and Menunketesuck Island all severely eroded by Hurricane Sandy
- Friends of Westbrook’s Barrier Islands Group website https://m.facebook.com/groups/420054571426506
- Implement cooperative agreement with Oxford Academy to control invasive plants on Salt Island Overlook
Environmental Education
- Management of native plantings in Mulvey River Bank Restoration and Environmental Education Project Area
- Sponsor/conduct invasive plant workshops
Research & Advisory
Perform research and advisory recommendations for Town Land Use Commissions
Partnerships with Other Agencies
- Partner with municipal, state, federal and regional agencies to manage town and regional natural resources; including:
- Adopt-a-Spot
- Lower Connecticut River Valley Council of Governments (RiverCOG)
- State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
- Westbrook Garden Club
- Planning and Inland Wetland Commissions
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Stuart B. McKinney Wildlife National Refuge
- Westbrook Land Conservation Trust
Toby Hill VIII - photo by Doug White
tRAIL MAPS for tOWN OF wESTBROOK
- Chapman Mill Pond Trail Map
- Chapman Mill Pond Open Space Conservation Area
- Cockaponset State Forest trail map
- Horse Hill Woods Open Space Conservation Area
- Horse Hill Woods Trail Map
- Tom ODell Memorial Open Space Trail Map
- Tom ODell Memorial Open Space Walking Trails
- Weber Woods Trail Map
- Westbrook Town Forest Trail location
- Westbrook Town Forest Trail Map
All Board meetings except for Executive Sessions are open to the public.
Members | Party | Term Expires |
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Martin Marx | (D) CH | 10/01/2020 |
Sheriden Bauman | (U) | 10/01/2022 |
Richmond Bell | (D) | 10/01/2022 |
Michael Oryl | (R) | 10/01/2022 |
John Rie | (U) | 10/01/2020 |
Molly Bernstein | ||
Christopher Bazinet |
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Heidi Wallace
Wetland AgentPhone: (860) 399-3017