Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, The following news and events may be of interest: Now through June 15 Acton Boxborough Bioblitz Please join us as we document and celebrate biodiversity in Acton and Boxborough, which together host over 2,000 acres of conservation areas. From cattail marshes and ponds to fields and forests, these habitats … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, To see more pics of nature in Acton, visit ACT’s Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/actonconservationtrust/?hl=en. The following news and events may be of interest: Thursday, June 1-15 Acton Boxborough Bioblitz Please join us as we document and celebrate biodiversity in Acton and Boxborough, which together host over 2,000 acres of conservation areas. … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, Bulette Conservation Land gained 20 acres, a new parking area on Arlington Street and a perfectly gorgeous bridge over Grassy Pond Brook. Now it’s easier than ever to walk from Bulette to Grassy Pond to Nagog Hill Conservation Lands. (From https://www.instagram.com/actonconservationtrust/?hl=en. To watch the video and to see more pics of nature in … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, 7 AM, Tuesday, May 16 Stoneymeade Conservation Land Bird Walk, led by local birders Al Sgroi and Ron Schlegel – Jody Harris assembled our group of 20 at the trailhead off Stoneymeade Way. We walked through the woods where we saw and heard an Ovenbird. (The Ovenbird gets … Read more
Al Sgroi led our Spring Bird walk on Tuesday, May 16, capably assisted by JoAnne Sgroi and Ron Schlegel. We met at the Stoneymeade Conservation Land trail head (also a section of the Bay Circuit Trail) and walked through woods, listening to ovenbirds calling and watching tiny brown creepers move through the trees, until breaking … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, ACT’s Jody Harris assembled 50 AB students, Scouts, parents and other adults to hand out trail clearing tools, gloves as well as to explain our goal of creating a 1/4 mile loop trail that is not only lovely and noted for biodiversity, but also connects to Stonefield Farm … Read more
There’s a new trail in town! Many thanks to our amazing group of ACT members, Scouts and AP Environmental Science students who helped clear a 1/4 mile loop trail off the Assabet River Rail Trail today. We had about 50 volunteers, and as you can see from the album below, they did an incredible job! … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, Thank you to all those Acton residents who voted unanimously at Town Meeting on Monday to purchase a permanent conservation restriction from the Acton Water District on the 57 acre 549 Main Street land (aka Conant land.) As always it took … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, 4/22/23 Earth Day Tour of 549 Main Street (Conant land) led by Brewster Conant and Matt Mostoller, with the Acton Conservation Trust Trustees there to explain the May 1 Town Meeting Warrant Article 10, which asks the Town to purchase a permanent conservation restriction on the property. … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, 4/17/2023 1775 The Famous Robbins Ride starting at 108 Concord Road, Robbins Homestead. 5:20 PM Isaac Davis Homestead, 39 Hayward Road On that fateful early morning in April of 1775, calling out “The Regulars are out of Boston – gather your units and head to Concord!” … Read more