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New CACIWC Publications

 

The Habitat
Habitat

 

The Habitat
Fall 2025

  • The 48th Annual Meeting & Environmental Conference: speakers, workshops & schedule
  • CACIWC News
  • How to register for the 2025 conference
  • UConn Native Plants and Pollinators Conference
  • Take the latest State Wildlife Action Plan Survey!
  • Business and organization sponsorships

 

The Habitat
Summer 2025

  • Long-term Environmental Changes and Emerging Threats in CT
  • Sharing the Landscape with Amphibians & Reptiles (Part II)
  • CACIWC News
  • Just What is the Commission's Burden of Proof Acting on an Application?
  • Creating a Natural Resource Inventory (NRI): Tips and Traps
  • Save the Date: 2025 Annual Conference Updates

 

The Habitat 
Spring 2025

  • The 47th Annual Meeting & Environmental Conference
  • Planning and Zoning "Due Consideration" Referral Issues
  • Remembering Tom ODell
  • BCT State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) Updates
  • Business and organization conference sponsorships
  • Ann Beaudin Memorial Fund & Save the Date

 

The Habitat
Fall 2024

  • The 47th Annual Meeting & Environmental Conference: speakers, workshops & schedule
  • Annual conference registration & membership renewal guidance
  • Take the new State Wildlife Action Plan Survey!
  • Business and organization sponsorships

 

The Habitat
Summer 2024

  • Registration Now Open for our 50th Anniversary Annual Conference!
  • Sharing the Landscape with Amphibians & Reptiles (Part 1)
  • CACIWC News
  • Reducing Light Pollution in Connecticut
  • Wanted: Dead and Alive
  • Register for the CIPWG October 29 Invasive Plant Symposium!

 

The Habitat
Spring 2024

  • The 50th Anniversary of CACIWC & The Habitat!
  • The 46th Annual Meeting & Environmental Conference
  • CACIWC News
  • Protecting the Public Trust: Focus on Wildlands & Water
  • Solid Waste Crisis: Food Redistribution & Recycling
  • DEEP Seeking Feedback on State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP)

 

 

 

The Habitat
Spring 2024

The Habitat
Fall 2023

The Habitat
Summer 2023

The Habitat
Spring 2023

The Habitat
Summer 2022

The Habitat
Spring 2022

The Habitat
WInter 2022

The Habitat
Fall 2021

The Habitat
Winter/Spring 2020

The Habitat
Summer/Fall 2019

The Habitat
Winter/Spring 2019

The Habitat
Fall 2018

The Habitat
Spring/Summer 2018

The Habitat
Winter/Spring 2018

Link to past issues of
The Habitat

 

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Welcome

"Dedicated to constant vigilance, judicious management and conservation of our precious natural resources."

Mission Statement: "To promote the statutory responsibilities of Connecticut Conservation Commissions and Inland Wetland Commissions and to foster environmental quality through education and through the conservation and protection of wetlands and other natural resources."

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Registration is full for our 2025 Annual Meeting and Environmental Conference on Saturday, November 15, 2025.

Please contact us at AnnualMtg@caciwc.org with any questions.


Our Keynote Speakers



New Location!


James O'Donnell, PhD
UConn Professor of Marine Sciences and Executive Director, Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation (CIRCA)


Mary M. Mushinsky
CT State Representative & Deputy Speaker, Co-Chairperson, Connecticut Working Group on Riparian Buffers

Courtyard Cromwell, CT 06416

Courtyard by Marriott Cromwell
4 Sebethe Dr, Cromwell, CT 06416

Click here for more conference information

 



Membership Dues
July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 are Due!


Membership Application & Renewal Forms

Click here to download the printable form.

Click here to Renew Online

You can pay online with credit card, debit card, or PayPal account, or mail your payment via check (checks made out to CACIWC) to:

CACIWC, Inc.
deKoven House Community Center
27 Washington Street
Middletown, CT 06457 

 

 

Ann Beaudin 

Ann Beaudin obituary

The Ann Beaudin Memorial Fund

Our long-term board member Ann Beaudin died recently, and her daughter has requested that CACIWC set up a memorial fund to honor Ann's long service in promoting habitat conservation and environmental protection in Connecticut. 

Contributions to this fund will support environmental and conservation education for Connecticut's many conservation and inland wetlands commissioners and other volunteers. Please consider donating in Ann's memory using the following link: 

Click here to donate


 

CACIWC members please note:

CACIWC has been invited to partner with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to help develop and implement the next revision (2025) of the Connecticut's State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP). Would you or your commission would like to be involved with this revision? Please contact us at: board@caciwc.org

Information on both the 2025 revision and the existing 2015 plan is located on the DEEP website:  Click here

 

 

 

Light Pollution impacts both Wildlife and Climate Change!

See information provided by the Coalition to Reduce Light Pollution in Connecticut: Click here

Learn how you can help reduce light pollution your town: Click here

Watch this site for more information! 

 

 


ALERT
Please report sightings of Spotted Lanternfly  Lycorma delictula

The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) renewed its Notice of Order of Quarantine on January 1, 2023, to help prevent and slow spread of the Spotted Lanternfly first identified in Fairfield and New Haven Counties. This imported insect pest can feed on more than 70 species of plants and has the potential to threaten half of Connecticut trees. For more information on identifying and reporting sightings of this insect species, please see:

Spotted Lanternfly - CAES

Spotted Lanternfly - CT DEEP

 


ALERT
Report Sightings of Invasive Mile-A-Minute

Mile-a-minute vineMile a MinuteVine Mile-a-minute vine is a highly invasive annual plant from eastern Asia that can quickly cover, outcompete and replace native vegetation, damaging habitat for native plants and animals. Early detection and rapid response are essential for control. Mile-a-minute was first found in Connecticut in Fairfield County in 1997. Since then, it has spread to 20 Connecticut towns, as far east as Stonington and as far north as Simsbury. Mile-a-minute spreads by seed and quickly grows into dense stands. Seeds are spread by wind and water.

For more information please read: Cheah, Carole and Ellis, Donna 2022. Biological Control of Mile-a-Minute Weed in Connecticut. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 1083. June 2022, available at: Click here

For additional information, including questions on reporting, please contact:
Carole Cheah, Ph.D.
Research Entomologist Valley Laboratory
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
153 Cook Hill Road
Windsor, CT 06095
carole.cheah@ct.gov

 

 

 

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Other Conferences and Workshops

 

UConn Native Plants and Pollinators Conference to be held on November 13, 2025, 8:45 am-3:15 pm

At the UConn Student Union Ballroom (Room 330), 2100 Hillside Road, Storrs, CT. An exciting day of presentations featuring current science-based research and information on supporting pollinators in managed landscapes. Learn how native plants support pollinator health throughout the year! Early Registration (by October 15): $70; Regular Registration (after October 15): $80; College/University Matriculated Students with valid school ID: $25.

For Registration and other information:
s.uconn.edu/nppc2025

 

 

Environmental Job Postings

Check back for job postings.

 

 

Conservation Commission Role in Climate Change Resilience:

 CACIWC encourages all Conservation Commissions to review this Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) fact sheet on how to advocate for increasing climate change resiliency within their municipality:
Conservation Commission Fact Sheet

 

 

For additional information on Inland Wetlands and Watercourses in Connecticut, including training and regulations, please see this State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) website: Inland Wetlands and Watercourses home page (ct.gov)

 

Please also see the DEEP Inland Wetlands Agency Directory at: AgentTownStaffDirectorypdf.pdf

 

For additional information on Connecticut Wildlife including CT species, the National Diversity Data Base, and Reporting a Wildlife Sighting, please see this CT DEEP website: Wildlife in Connecticut

 

 

Planning for Agriculture:
A Guide for Connecticut Municipalities

American Farmland Trust and Connecticut Conference of Municipalities are pleased to announce the release of the updated Planning for Agriculture: A Guide for Connecticut Municipalities. The 63-page guide is a tool to assist town boards, local elected officials and citizen advocates in finding ways to support local farms and farm businesses and to retain and protect farmland. An electronic version of the guide is available online at:

Click here for Planning for Agriculture: A Guide for Connecticut Municipalities - FIC (farmlandinfo.org)

 

 

Your Environmental Toolkit for Properly Assessing Development Proposals

CACIWC is pleased to provide Conservation Commissions with a new environmental toolkit pamphlet to help commissioners properly assess development proposals that may come before their town. Click here to download pamphlet.

 

Historical find in Haddam

Yellow groove running bamboo has naturalized by rhizomes washing downstream. Naturalized colony documented on 7-28-2013 in Pine Brook Preserve - Haddam, CT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvmyqeKn2N0

 

 

 
 
             
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