Dan Esty, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, spoke at a ceremony formally opening the Norfolk Land Trust’s Pine Mountain property to the public. His agency provided almost $300,000 of the land’s cost. Esty praised the Norfolk Land Trust for its success in putting together the public and private funds to buy the parcel, saying that it was easy to plan, easy to talk, and easy to imagine projects but hard to bring them about. The 311 acres of Pine Mountain are part of a 2000-acre mosaic of open land at the top of the Mad River watershed. A land trust hike will leave the trailhead on Grantville Rd. on Sunday, November 10 at noon.

Photo by June Peterson.