Finishing Touches at Hammonasset

Volunteers are putting the finishing touches on the trail’s walkway in Hammonasset State Park. It will be open in less than a week.

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The walkway construction crew is making great progress on the ramps at Hammonasset.

The walkway construction crew is making great progress on the ramps at Hammonasset.

 

 

Volunteers clear for more trail in Hammonasset

On a beautiful spring Sunday afternoon the Madison volunteer team converged beside the Hammonasset entrance road to clear the area where the trail will run from the boardwalk ramp that will be constructed soon.

Volunteers Yasu Ueda and Perry Rianhard at work

Volunteers Yasu Ueda and Perry Rianhard at work

Patty McKeon and Ginny Raff struggle with invasive vines
Patty McKeon and Ginny Raff struggle with invasive vines

A small portion of the brush that was cleared
A small portion of the brush that was cleared

 

 

Owl Family Returns to Hammonasset. For several years there has been an owl couple nurturing young on a nest high over the trail in Hammonasset. We are delighted to report that the owls are back again this year and appear to be occupying the nest platform. We suspect that what the endangered species people told us about northern harriers maybe true of owls too. Wherever people go mice will follow. And wherever mice go… For more on the story of owls in past years go to the Shoreline Greenway Trail Madison page.