Highstead Foundation Presents:
“A Walk Through Time: Exploring the Long-term Ecological History of Redding and Southern New England”
In celebration of Redding’s 250th year, join us for an evening focused on the region’s forest and landscape history. Dr. Wyatt Oswald, faculty member at Emerson College and paleoecologist at the Harvard Forest, will discuss vegetation change and its relationship to climate and fire over the past 10,000 years. Ed Faison, senior ecologist at Highstead, will discuss the vegetation and landscape that greeted the first European settlers and the dramatic changes over the past 250 years that shaped our forests today.
Time and Location:
Thursday, October 12, 2017
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Highstead Barn, 127 Lonetown Road, Redding, CT
Please RSVP at 203-938-8809 or rsvp@highstead.net as space is limited.