New Museum Land Trust Publications
The Museum is pleased to announce the 2025 publication of two updated guides: the HLFM Land Trust Trail Guide and the Betty Matthiessen Wildlife Sanctuary Trail Guide. The guides will be available at the Museum’s store and at the Beach Plum.
HLFM Land Trust Trail Guide
The pocket-sized guide, with its robin’s-egg blue cover, has become an indispensable navigation tool, introducing many to previously unexperienced Island landscapes.
The 2025 version reflects expansions and changes to the Land Trust trail network, which are highlighted in Jack Schneider’s article below and Kate Stevens’ article on the new coastal trail that follows on pages 6 and 7. The original text by Terry McNamara and Connecticut-based naturalist Maggie Jones has been updated by Maggie. New maps are by Jessica Morgan, with several of Beth Jepsen’s originals retained; original illustrations are by Charlie Ferguson.
Betty Matthiessen Wildlife Sanctuary Trail Guide
A microcosm of the Island, the Betty Matthiessen Wildlife Sanctuary hosts an impressive array of species captured in the updated guide’s expanded species list.
The original 1988 guide—with text by Penni Sharp and Carey Matthiessen and illustrations by Charlie Ferguson was organized into 11 stations that corresponded to numbered posts in the sanctuary. This walking tour format has been retained and enhanced with new, illustrative station signs planned along the trail. The text has been updated by Maggie Jones, and beautifully portrays the sequence and interdependence of organisms in the Sanctuary ecosystem.
