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• 1/1/0001 CT State Parks Celebrates the New Year with First Day Hikes across the state on January 1, 2018

  Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) State Parks will sponsor free, guided hikes in 13 state parks on New Year’s Day as part of America's State Parks First Day Hikes initiative taking place in all 50 states.

• 12/17/2017 Update on Missing Griswold Snowmobiler

  On Saturday, December 16, 2017 evening at 6:45 p.m., Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) Environmental Conservation (EnCon) Police Officers responded to Pachaug Pond in Griswold for a report of a missing snowmobiler.

• 12/14/2017 Annual Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp Artistic Competition Begins

  Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is once again inviting artists to enter their waterfowl artwork in Connecticut’s annual Migratory Bird Conservation (Duck) Stamp Art Contest.

• 12/5/2017 Kevin the Turkey Captured and Relocated

  On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at approximately 1:30 pm Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) Environmental Conservation (EnCon) Police Officers at the request of Wethersfield Police safely captured Kevin the Turkey of Wethersfield in the vicinity of Jordan Lane and the Silas Deane Highway.

• 12/17/2017 Timber Harvest - Housatonic State Forest

  The DEEP Forestry Division is nearing completion of a timber harvest at Housatonic State Forest in Sharon.

• 12/11/2017 The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Reminds Residents to Recycle Unwanted Electronic Devices this Holiday Season

  The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) reminds residents to drop off their unwanted computers, monitors, printers and televisions at a local collection center for recycling under DEEP’s Electronics Recycling Program.

• 12/7/2017 Consider Alternatives When Decorating this Season; Avoid Using Material from Invasive Plants

  The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is asking Connecticut residents and decorators to consider alternatives to invasive plants, such as Oriental bittersweet, this holiday season.

• 5/30/2018 Annual Wild Turkey Brood Survey

  Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) urges residents to keep a tally of all sightings of hen turkeys and poults (young-of-the-year) from June 1 through August 31 as part of the Wildlife Division’s Annual Wild Turkey Brood Survey.

• 5/29/2018 Gov. Malloy Announces $7.5 Million to Fund Clean Air Projects from Volkswagen Settlement

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the State of Connecticut is making available $7.5 million dollars from the national legal settlement in the Volkswagen (VW) Corporation emissions cheating scandal to fund clean air projects.

• 5/8/2018 Frances’ Fearless Women

  Who’s your favorite heroine?

• 5/22/2018 Turtles and Roads Are a Deadly Combination

  To help mark World Turtle Day today, Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is reminding residents to be on the lookout for turtles crossing roads.

• 5/28/2018 DEEP Announces Winner of 2018 Connecticut Duck Stamp Art Contest

  In a contest filled with great artwork, a panel of judges recently selected Indiana artist Jeffrey Klinefelter’s depiction of buffleheads flying across Barn Island Wildlife Management Area as the winner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s (DEEP) 2018 Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation (Duck) Stamp Art Contest.

• 5/7/2018 Great Park Pursuit: Connecticut State Parks Family Adventure Begins Saturday May 12th

  May 12th is a great day to be outdoors with your family – it’s the first day of Connecticut’s No Child Left Inside® Great Park Pursuit: Connecticut State Parks Family Adventure and Family Fishing Day across the state.

• 5/9/2018 Bird in Hand Banding Demonstration

  2018 is the Year of the Bird!

• 5/20/2018 Monday Update on State Parks Impacted by Last Week’s Storm

  The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) State Parks Division over the weekend continued work to clear the damage at the four state parks impacted by last Tuesday’s storm. DEEP announced that Squantz Pond State Park has reopened as of today. Sleeping Giant and Wharton Brook will remain closed through the holiday weekend, no timeline has been set on when those two parks will reopen.