Cooperative Wildlife Management Areas

Helping the state preserve open space for recreation is just one more way CL&P is improving the natural environment In Connecticut.

CL&P works with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Wildlife Division to make 2,700 acres of NU land available to the public for regulated hunting activities. In exchange for NU providing the land, the DEP provides law enforcement, management recommendations and administration of hunting permits on a daily basis. Wildlife areas are managed for both game and non-game species, and also to accommodate passive public recreation activities.

Recreation hiking is also a popular use of CL&P property, and informal trails are present on many of the company-owned forest and right of way lands. In addition, many of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association's 700-mile Blue-Blazed Trail System crosses company properties and rights of way. More formal trails include the Ridgefield Rail to Trail, a 2.4-mile paved hiking and bicycling trail that occupies a transmission line right of way in Ridgefield.