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Audubon Achievements: Preserving Critical Habitats
Funding Leveraged by Audubon Connecticut
for Land Conservation:
Leveraging your contributions, Audubon
staff are working with partners all across the state to ensure
open space and critical habitat is permanently protected,
here are a few key examples:
| Site & Town |
Amount Raised |
Acreage |
Year |
| Barn Island 1, Stonington |
$2,000,000 |
144 |
2004 |
| Conte site, Cromwell |
$369,000 |
30 |
2005 |
| Menunketesuck, Westbrook |
$300,000 |
4.6 |
2005 |
| Tappe, Southbury |
$492,000 |
30 |
2006 |
| Salt Meadow 2, Westbrook |
$700,000 |
20 |
2008 |
| Grassland Site, Suffield |
$4,400,000 |
450 |
2008 |
| Barn Island 2, Stonington |
$920,000 |
48 |
2009 |
| Goss Property, Guilford |
$15,000,000 |
624 |
2009 |
| Guilford Sluice, Guilford |
$365,000 |
50 |
2009 |
| Total |
$24,546,000 |
1,400.6 |
|
Other Conservation Funding:
Land Protection in Other States through
the Conte Refuge since 2002:
$6,285,500 to protect 4106 acres.
Clean Water Funding:
2006: $20,000,000
2007: $20,000,000
2008: $90,000,000
2009: $90,000,000
2009: $68,000,000 from Federal Stimulus Package.
Total: $288,000,000
Legislative Initiatives for Open Space:
Recreation and Natural Heritage Trust:
FY ’09 $7,500,000
Open Space Matching Grants: FY ’09 $7,500,000
Farmland Protection: FY ‘09 $10,000,000
Community Investment Act: $33,643,846 for open space, farmland,
historic preservation and affordable housing since 2005
Pending Projects
Long Beach $10 million
Barn Island $1 million
Pleasure Beach TBD
Bent of the River $55,000
Griswold Airport TBD
Partners*
Audubon Chapters
Audubon Society of New Hampshire
Audubon Vermont
Audubon DC Policy Office
City of Bridgeport
Connecticut Audubon Society
Connecticut DEP
Connecticut Fund for the Environment/Save the Sound
Connecticut Waterfowlers Association
Federal Legislators
Friends of Conte
Guilford Land Conservation Trust
Hartford Audubon Society
Massachusetts Audubon Society
New Haven Bird Club
NOAA
Soundkeeper
Southbury Land Trust
State lawmakers
The Nature Conservancy
Town of Guilford
Town of Stonington
Town of Stratford
Trust for Public Land
US Fish and Wildlife Service
* Partial Listing |
