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were able to engage some Boy Scout troops to come to the farm for planting.
and plant the trees. The trees survived and grew tall and strong.
The farm was named Tamarack Farm, and became a well-known North Haven is fortunate to have examples of these three unique
horse-riding and training stable in the 1950s-1970s. More recently, conifers. Take time to look for the tamarack trees and dawn red-
the property was purchased by Quinnipiac University and consid- woods in our town, the needled conifers that, unlike most conifers,
eration is being given to development of an equestrian center. But lose their needles every winter. And be sure to take a trip to Whar-
for now, some of the tamaracks continue to live on this hillside. ton Brook State Park, or the Pitch Pines Park, to see the gnarly pitch
pines while they still exist on North Haven’s sand plain.

DAWN REDWOODS
For most people, the term ‘Redwood tree’ brings to mind the giant
redwoods found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, called the Giant
Sequoias. However, there are 2 other types of redwood trees, the
Coast Redwoods, found along the Pacific coast as far south as cen-
tral California, and the Dawn Redwoods, which grow naturally in a
few small, scattered stands in China. Fossil remains document that
dawn redwoods populated the land when the dinosaurs roamed. It
was thought to have been extinct for 20 million years, until a small
cluster was discovered in China in 1944. Now, the dawn redwoods GET
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The dawn redwood quickly grows into a large tree with a pyramidal
shape, and may reach a height of 75-100 feet, with a 6-7 foot di-
ameter trunk. The dawn redwood turns shades of reddish orange,
or coppery brown, in the fall, and then sheds its needles. In the
spring, new, feathery, fine-textured, needles grow. There are some
dawn redwoods living in North Haven on private properties. If you
have the space, this majestic tree is one to consider as a specimen

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