A collection of both our resources and interesting related sites to which we’re often adding. Please email us if you know of a good site you think belongs here.
Steep Rock Association Trail Maps
For your convenience, we’re providing downloadable PDF files of our recently revised trail maps. Full size (11″ x17″) maps, printed in four colors on water and tear resistant paper, are for sale at the Hickory Stick Bookstore, the Gunn Memorial Library and the Steep Rock office. A set of three maps costs $8.00.
- Map of Steep Rock Preserve (2.4mb PDF)
- Map of Hidden Valley Preserve (1.7mb PDF)
- Map of Macricostas Preserve (2.1mb PDF)
Steep Rock Association Resources
- Macricostas Management Plan (6mb PDF)
- Macricostas Interpretive Trail brochure PDF
- Peary Stafford’s bird sightings PDF
- Peary Stafford’s butterfly sightings PDF
Land Trusts, Conservation, Environmental
- CT Forest and Park Association
- CT State Parks and Forests
- Connecticut Fund for the Environment
- Land Trust Alliance offers a directory of CT Land Trusts
- Land Trust – an informative site from the west coast
- Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition
- The Nature Conservancy
- The Trust for Public Land
- The Weantinoge Heritage, Kent, Connecticut
- White Memorial Conservation Center, Litchfield, Connecticut
- Wildlife Land Trust
Forestry
- CT DEP Division of Forestry
- UConn Cooperative Extension Forestry
- USDA Forest Service – Northeastern Area
- Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Rivers
- American Rivers
- EPA’s American Heritage Rivers
- Connecticut River Education Initiative (CREI)
- International Rivers
- Rivers Alliance of Connecticut
- The Shepaug River
- U.S. Geological Survey’s Gage of the Shepaug River at Peters Dam at Woodville, CT
- Various river quotes, slogans and sayings
Invasive Plants and Pests
- Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE)
- Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group (CIPWG)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Invasive Species Information Center
- Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s Invasive Weeds of North America
- NBII (National Biological Information Infrastructure) – Invasive Species
The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Information
Recreation and Nature
- Berkshire Hiking
- Litchfield Hills Visitors Bureau
- Connecticut Explorer’s Guide
- Connecticut Ornithological Society
- Litchfield Hills Audubon Society
- Connecticut Botanical Society
Weather