Meander to the Marsh LbNA #2345
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 3, 2002 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Warren |
| County: | Bristol |
| State: | Rhode Island |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | The Rogers Family  |
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| Found by: | RIclimber |
| Last found: | Feb 6, 2016 |
| Status: | aFFFFFFFaFFFFFFFFaOa |
| Last edited: | Nov 3, 2002 |
Hiking: easy, less than a mile, but the trail can be very soggy after a rain.
Clues: easy.
Placed by: Curious Crane and Latte Man 11/03/02
Touisset Marsh is owned by Rhode Island Audubon Society. Keep your eyes open in all directions as you hike here. The abundance of wildlife and interesting plants small and large would thrill John James Audubon himself. We wanted to do a wildlife theme, but if we made a letterbox for every species we've seen here, this place would look like a Tupperware party. So we chose two animals that we've seen here more than once that made the biggest impression on us at the times we saw them.
Driving directions: From the intersection of Routes 114 (Main Street) and 103 (Child Street) in downtown Warren, take Route 103 east 1.9 miles to Long Lane. Take a right onto Long Lane. Go 0.8 mile to the end and turn left onto Barton Av. Go 0.5 mile more to Touisset Road. Go right on Touisset Road, following it around some curves 1.2 miles to another big turn to the left. At this turn you'll see Touisset Fire Company, Warren Fire Department Station 6. Turn right to go into a parking lot next to the fire house.
CLUES:
From the parking lot, take the trail to the left into a field. You'll see bird houses on the left and a short way down, a sign board on the right. Follow the trail around the edge of the field, into and around a second field, and then into the woods. Look and listen as you go
along for all kinds of birds, flowers, shrubs and trees, insects, and maybe a mammal such as a rabbit, squirrel or deer.
After the first patch of woods, you'll come out into another field. Go straight, then turn right with the trail before the field ends. You'll go into another small patch of woods before coming out to the bridge at the marsh. Stop for a while on the bridge and look for more birds, small fish, and ribbed mussels. If you have binoculars, this is a good place to use them.
Keep going past the bridge and enter a strip of woods. When you come to another field, go straight, not right. Then you'll go back into some more woods. Hmm- do you sense a recurrent theme?
At the top of a hill, go through an old stone wall and walk 20 paces at 305 degrees. Turn left on a smaller path at 198 degrees. Just before the trail descends abruptly to the tidal creek and its confluence with the Kickemuit River, take another small path to the left. You'll soon come to the lower end of the stone wall just mentioned. Be careful- many of the stones are loose. Look in the wall next to a 3+1 oak tree to find the Great Blue Heron Letterbox. We've seen these birds standing, fishing, and flying in and around the marsh and creek.
Go back up the two small paths and continue straight, 023 degrees, along the edge of yet another field. You'll see the Kickemuit off to the left. Just before a fairly tall cedar tree, turn right onto a quite wide trail into yet another patch of woods.
At a 3-way intersection, turn right and walk to a field.
We saw a fox in this field on three different occasions, and one other time closer to the parking lot. Turn around and return to the 3-way intersection. This time go right/straight. Very soon you'll see a stone wall. Being careful because many of the stones are loose, search in the wall to the right, far side, about 10 feet in for the Red Fox letterbox.
Continue in the direction you were going to an intersection with a grassy road, and turn right to go back to your car. What kind of wild animals and plants did you see?
Clues: easy.
Placed by: Curious Crane and Latte Man 11/03/02
Touisset Marsh is owned by Rhode Island Audubon Society. Keep your eyes open in all directions as you hike here. The abundance of wildlife and interesting plants small and large would thrill John James Audubon himself. We wanted to do a wildlife theme, but if we made a letterbox for every species we've seen here, this place would look like a Tupperware party. So we chose two animals that we've seen here more than once that made the biggest impression on us at the times we saw them.
Driving directions: From the intersection of Routes 114 (Main Street) and 103 (Child Street) in downtown Warren, take Route 103 east 1.9 miles to Long Lane. Take a right onto Long Lane. Go 0.8 mile to the end and turn left onto Barton Av. Go 0.5 mile more to Touisset Road. Go right on Touisset Road, following it around some curves 1.2 miles to another big turn to the left. At this turn you'll see Touisset Fire Company, Warren Fire Department Station 6. Turn right to go into a parking lot next to the fire house.
CLUES:
From the parking lot, take the trail to the left into a field. You'll see bird houses on the left and a short way down, a sign board on the right. Follow the trail around the edge of the field, into and around a second field, and then into the woods. Look and listen as you go
along for all kinds of birds, flowers, shrubs and trees, insects, and maybe a mammal such as a rabbit, squirrel or deer.
After the first patch of woods, you'll come out into another field. Go straight, then turn right with the trail before the field ends. You'll go into another small patch of woods before coming out to the bridge at the marsh. Stop for a while on the bridge and look for more birds, small fish, and ribbed mussels. If you have binoculars, this is a good place to use them.
Keep going past the bridge and enter a strip of woods. When you come to another field, go straight, not right. Then you'll go back into some more woods. Hmm- do you sense a recurrent theme?
At the top of a hill, go through an old stone wall and walk 20 paces at 305 degrees. Turn left on a smaller path at 198 degrees. Just before the trail descends abruptly to the tidal creek and its confluence with the Kickemuit River, take another small path to the left. You'll soon come to the lower end of the stone wall just mentioned. Be careful- many of the stones are loose. Look in the wall next to a 3+1 oak tree to find the Great Blue Heron Letterbox. We've seen these birds standing, fishing, and flying in and around the marsh and creek.
Go back up the two small paths and continue straight, 023 degrees, along the edge of yet another field. You'll see the Kickemuit off to the left. Just before a fairly tall cedar tree, turn right onto a quite wide trail into yet another patch of woods.
At a 3-way intersection, turn right and walk to a field.
We saw a fox in this field on three different occasions, and one other time closer to the parking lot. Turn around and return to the 3-way intersection. This time go right/straight. Very soon you'll see a stone wall. Being careful because many of the stones are loose, search in the wall to the right, far side, about 10 feet in for the Red Fox letterbox.
Continue in the direction you were going to an intersection with a grassy road, and turn right to go back to your car. What kind of wild animals and plants did you see?