The Kuncanowet Town Forest and Conservation Area was founded 30 years ago. It derives its name from its dominant feature, the Kuncanowet Hills. In Native American Kuncanowet means “mountain place of the bear.”
Established on December 8, 1989, funding for the area came from the Land Conservation Investment Program (the forerunner of today’s LCHIP) and generous land donations from forward thinking private landowners.
The effort spearheaded 30 years ago by the town’s Conservation Commission and Town Forest Committee has been described as an outstanding example of public cooperation in donating land for conservation use. The area is managed today by the Kuncanowet Town Forest and Conservation Area Committee, a group that represents both founding committees and the public at large.
Notes on the KTFCA’s founding by former committee chair J. Wilcox Brown may be read here.
Look for committee members at Dunbarton’s Old Home Day on August 17 and join us for a plant, tree and wildlife identification walk at the Kuncanowet on Saturday, September 7 at 9 am.