Video with Gary Johnson, President, showing the progress on the site-work.
Nasketucket Bay Land Conservation Project
Check this video and info on the large scale project underway in Fairhaven and Mattapoisett. Land Conservation and recreation opportunities are immense!
http://www.savebuzzardsbay.org/NasketucketBay
MLT Blueberry Orchard Clean-up
The Mattapoisett Land Trust acquired the Brownell Preserve in 2011 with the hope that it would one day be able to restore the overgrown blueberry orchard. Private contributions, including a Community Grant from the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation, provided the funds to enable the MLT to hire professionals who removed the forest cover this winter. Now the MLT needs volunteers to complete the clean-up by collecting the debris that litters the orchard’s rows.
The MLT is inviting everyone interested in helping restore the blueberry orchard to join us at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, for a couple of hours of community service. Volunteers should meet in the parking lot of the Friends Meeting House on Route 6 before proceeding onto the Brownell Preserve. Tools will be provided but gloves and boots are highly recommended. For more information call 774-377-9191 or email info@mattlandtrust.org. Share a couple hours in service to celebrate Earth Day
Vernal Pool Certification Field Trip
Tomorrow, Saturday April 6 at 9!
Help certify a Vernal Pool in the MLT’s Woodcock Preserve. See signs of life critical to the task! Eggs, insects and more. If you’ve heard the mating “quacks” of the Wood Frog, then you’ve probably been near one of these critical bodies of water.
If you don’t know where the Preserve is, meet us, 8:45, at Dunseith Gardens (Salty’s hangout) at North Street and Route 6 to join the caravan.
The map is below in previous post.
Wear muck proof boots!
See you there!
Vernal pool certification
Wed, April 3, 7 pm Mattapoisett Library
Wetland Scientist Elizabeth Leidhold will give a slide presentation
on vernal pools at the Mattapoisett Library in preparation for
certification field trip on April 6
Sat. April 6, 9 am. Woodcock Preserve, Long Plain rd.
Join wetland scientist Elizabeth Leidhold for a fascinating hands on
experience in the field. Learn about the springtime breeding place
of wood frogs, salamanders and more!