Links
The Quinebaug-Shetucket National Heritage Corridor - its URL says it all: www.thelastgreenvalley.org. It's an extensive, effective, interstate organization, initiating and coordinating efforts by civilians, civil servants and organizations to keep growth from destroying what we came, or returned here, for. If my photographs inspire you at all, go join the QSHC.
QSHC Links Page links for every town with a website and many national organizations not included here - a great collection

The Working Lands Alliance was formed in 1999 as a multi-interest coalition with the sole purpose of preserving Connecticut’s most precious natural resource – its farmland. Over 70 organizations representing concerns as diverse as hunger, the environment, and agriculture joined forces to educate the public and our state lawmakers about the downward trend in farmland www.workinglandsalliance.org
The Connecticut Farm Bureau. Farm Bureau is a non-governmental, voluntary organization of farm families united to find solutions for concerns facing production agriculture in our counties, state and nation. Connecticut Farm Bureau provides farmers with a strong clear voice in state and national issues. Volunteer leaders and staff work closely with state and federal regulatory agencies and elected officials on issues ranging from economic viability, property rights, taxation, land use planning to labor laws and farmland preservation.
www.threadcity.com - this is Tom Beardslley and Clayton Church's child, a wonderful, historically-informed site with an amazing collection of antique images and historical articles covering Windham and the surrounding towns.

                                       the land trusts:
The New Roxbury Land Trust centered in Woodstock, has an extensive website to introduce the many forms of land protection.
Joshua's Trust has several parcels in the Western part of the Quinebaug-Shetucket
The Wolf Den Land Trust centered in Pomfret
The Wyndham Land Trust protects natural resources by allowing land to return to its natural state.
The Nature Conservancy's Quinebaug Highlands Project, including Union, Ashford, Eastford and parts of other towns in Ct and MA
Quinebaug Highlands Project places to visit
The Opacum Land Trust includes most of the towns in South-Central Massachusetts that are part of the Last Green Valley
this link is to the Pachaug Borderlands Project, on the RI line East of Norwich.
And one to the Dennis Farm, in Pomfret
The Quiet Corner Visitors District is a great link of resources for anyone traveling through our neighborhood
and if you're hungry, The Vanilla Bean Cafe, in Pomfret, serves great food, live entertainment and has been very generous in its support of local service and environmental organizations.
For a fun local activity, visit The Willimantic Street Fest Site - third Thursday, May-Oct, 6-9PM
See the area from the air yourself! Bruce Byberg offers sightseeing excursions in his Brighter Skies Balloon. I've taken a ride - it's quiet and beautiful.
...or even better, Learn to fly, yourself, as I did, in less than a year, at Windham Aviation , right off route 6, tell 'em I sent ya.
Connecticut Audubon the link is to their homepage, check out the TrailWood   Pomfret and   Ragged Hill Woods pages.
www.ctheritage.org is the link to Connecticut's Heritage Gareway, a program of the Ct Humanities Council - a siteful of well-arranged historical information about the state we're in. Go to their "Connecticut Heritage" link on the homepage and then click "Photos" to find a collection of maps and historical images that will intrigue you.