Nockham Hill Turtle LbNA #2340 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 12, 2002 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Barrington |
| County: | Bristol |
| State: | Rhode Island |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | donna  |
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| Found by: | A Triplet Redeemed |
| Last found: | Sep 3, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFaFaaa |
| Last edited: | Oct 12, 2002 |
Nockham Hill Turtle
Location: The Doug Rayner Wildlife Sanctuary
Planted by: Tweety, Jessica Rose and Mr. Coon 10/14/02
Difficulty: Easy. Flat walk of a loop trail that takes an hour or less even with a little shoreline exploring. Good for kids.
Driving directions:
From I 195 east out of Providence take Mass exit 1 and turn right on Rt 114A. Turn left on Rt 6 at the traffic lights and head east through a congested stretch of stores and restaurants and at the fifth set of lights (at a convenience store) turn right onto Warren Avenue. After a residential area George Street forks off to the right of some agricultural fields. Take the right and pass the farmstand for Four Town Farm. If they are open maybe you should go in and check it out – their produce is great. When George Street makes a right angle to your left there will be a big stone on your right in a grass triangle. Park here and look for the entrance gate to the Doug Rayner Wildlife Sanctuary.
Background:
The sanctuary is named in honor of longtime Barrington resident E. Douglas Rayner. Mr. Rayner was very active as a conservationist serving on the Barrington Conservation Commission and the Barrington Land Trust and in the forefront of various environmental activities in the area. He has been involved over some time in the studies of a local population of Diamondback Terrapins ( the only known nesting population in Rhode Island) found here at Nockum Hill and so this town wildlife preserve was named for him. Mr. Rayner was named the Distinguished Naturalist for 2001 by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey.
Directions to the box:
Enter the sanctuary gate and proceed up the paved road shared with the farm. After passing a cultivated field on the left a mowed path will emerge on the left. (If you follow the trails around the refuge after finding the letterbox you should come out here). The pavement will end in a cul de sac but continue along the dirt road alongside the farm acreage on your right until, as you get to the back of the field where the water of Hundred Acre Cove comes into view through the trees, the trail bears to the left along the trees.
After a hundred yards or so the wide trail fades out. There are two I beam posts to your left and a single track path straight ahead. Follow the path to where it comes to a "T" with a trail down a gully. You'll need to turn left here up the gully to get to the box, but first you may want to take a right down the gully trail and explore the shoreline a bit. Across the water of Hundred Acre Cove you can see traffic on a road called the Wampanaug Trail which heads up to the right towards Providence and down to your left toward Barrington.
Along the opposite shore is Osamequin Bird Sanctuary within which hides another box. Nockum Hill is a bit of Barrington isolated from the rest of the town. You have to pass out of the town to reach here by road. If you walk up the shoreline to your left a couple of hundred feet and keep a sharp look up the bank you'll see an interesting tree with a hollow among its roots large enough to fit a person. The marshes out in front here are part of a low-lying peninsula known as The Tongue. One of several osprey nest platforms in the cove is located there.
Return to the gully trail and head up it. At the T intersection at the top turn right for a few steps and cross over a low sand ridge a couple of feet high. From here you should see an isolated Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) shaped like a big green flame in a clearing off to your right. Approach the tree and from there at a bearing of 150 degrees take about 26 steps to a low sweeping branch of a big Norway Spruce ( Picea abies ). The box should be hidden under some debris beneath the large low bough.
After stamping in you may want to return along the main trail, head off to your right and explore the sandy areas and the mysterious enclosures on your way back to the field road or head on around the trails to your left and follow them until they emerge via the mowed path back onto the farm road.
Location: The Doug Rayner Wildlife Sanctuary
Planted by: Tweety, Jessica Rose and Mr. Coon 10/14/02
Difficulty: Easy. Flat walk of a loop trail that takes an hour or less even with a little shoreline exploring. Good for kids.
Driving directions:
From I 195 east out of Providence take Mass exit 1 and turn right on Rt 114A. Turn left on Rt 6 at the traffic lights and head east through a congested stretch of stores and restaurants and at the fifth set of lights (at a convenience store) turn right onto Warren Avenue. After a residential area George Street forks off to the right of some agricultural fields. Take the right and pass the farmstand for Four Town Farm. If they are open maybe you should go in and check it out – their produce is great. When George Street makes a right angle to your left there will be a big stone on your right in a grass triangle. Park here and look for the entrance gate to the Doug Rayner Wildlife Sanctuary.
Background:
The sanctuary is named in honor of longtime Barrington resident E. Douglas Rayner. Mr. Rayner was very active as a conservationist serving on the Barrington Conservation Commission and the Barrington Land Trust and in the forefront of various environmental activities in the area. He has been involved over some time in the studies of a local population of Diamondback Terrapins ( the only known nesting population in Rhode Island) found here at Nockum Hill and so this town wildlife preserve was named for him. Mr. Rayner was named the Distinguished Naturalist for 2001 by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey.
Directions to the box:
Enter the sanctuary gate and proceed up the paved road shared with the farm. After passing a cultivated field on the left a mowed path will emerge on the left. (If you follow the trails around the refuge after finding the letterbox you should come out here). The pavement will end in a cul de sac but continue along the dirt road alongside the farm acreage on your right until, as you get to the back of the field where the water of Hundred Acre Cove comes into view through the trees, the trail bears to the left along the trees.
After a hundred yards or so the wide trail fades out. There are two I beam posts to your left and a single track path straight ahead. Follow the path to where it comes to a "T" with a trail down a gully. You'll need to turn left here up the gully to get to the box, but first you may want to take a right down the gully trail and explore the shoreline a bit. Across the water of Hundred Acre Cove you can see traffic on a road called the Wampanaug Trail which heads up to the right towards Providence and down to your left toward Barrington.
Along the opposite shore is Osamequin Bird Sanctuary within which hides another box. Nockum Hill is a bit of Barrington isolated from the rest of the town. You have to pass out of the town to reach here by road. If you walk up the shoreline to your left a couple of hundred feet and keep a sharp look up the bank you'll see an interesting tree with a hollow among its roots large enough to fit a person. The marshes out in front here are part of a low-lying peninsula known as The Tongue. One of several osprey nest platforms in the cove is located there.
Return to the gully trail and head up it. At the T intersection at the top turn right for a few steps and cross over a low sand ridge a couple of feet high. From here you should see an isolated Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) shaped like a big green flame in a clearing off to your right. Approach the tree and from there at a bearing of 150 degrees take about 26 steps to a low sweeping branch of a big Norway Spruce ( Picea abies ). The box should be hidden under some debris beneath the large low bough.
After stamping in you may want to return along the main trail, head off to your right and explore the sandy areas and the mysterious enclosures on your way back to the field road or head on around the trails to your left and follow them until they emerge via the mowed path back onto the farm road.