Update 11/1/23: “Mother Nature” scarecrow wins FIRST PLACE!! If you haven’t visited “Mother Nature”, our ACT Scarecrow, at Cucurbit Farm – it’s time! As you can see, she’s encouraging support of land trusts – ACT and SVT!!!!Bring your kids/grandkids – they also have a corn maze!!!She’s a masterpiece, and here she is in all her natural … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, Growing the ACT Board of TrusteesAre you interested in preserving open space in Acton? While Acton has the benefit of many acres of open space, some prized undeveloped parcels in Acton are not yet protected … Read more Tremendous storm damage sustained from our mid-September storm at Heath Hen Meadow Brook … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, Growing the ACT Board of TrusteesAre you interested in preserving open space in Acton? While Acton has the benefit of many acres of open space, some prized undeveloped parcels in Acton are not yet protected … Read more Monitoring the Gaebel and Grassy Pond West Conservation Restrictions. The following news and … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, Growing the ACT Board of TrusteesAre you interested in preserving open space in Acton? While Acton has the benefit of many acres of open space, some prized undeveloped parcels in Acton are not yet protected … Read more To read more about last week’s Sunday’s Service Day cutting a trail to … Read more
ACT had a great turnout of members, friends and boy scouts from Troop 284 volunteer to put a trail from the end of Genevieve Lane into the Anderson Land, which connects to Bulette/Town Forest Conservation Land. Laurie Ullmann brought a printout about the partial solar eclipse occurring during the work, as well as a pair … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, Growing the ACT Board of TrusteesAre you interested in preserving open space in Acton? While Acton has the benefit of many acres of open space, some prized undeveloped parcels in Acton are not yet protected … Read more Views of Max Porten’s cows grazing at Hebert Farm, 88 Prospect Street, a … Read more
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, Growing the ACT Board of TrusteesAre you interested in preserving open space in Acton? While Acton has the benefit of many acres of open space, some prized undeveloped parcels in Acton are not yet protected … Read more Many thanks to ACT Trustee Jody Harris and the Boston Mycological Club for … Read more
Acton Conservation Trust members and friends enjoyed a beautiful fall day during a joint event with Boston Mycological Club (BMC) on Sunday, October 1. Around 100 people from the two groups gathered at Wills Hole Conservation Land to search for mushrooms. Armed with baskets and special curved fungus knives with a brush on one end, … Read more
Acton Conservation Trust’s President, Susan Mitchell-Hardt, was honored with Sudbury Valley Trustees Lifetime Achievement award at SVT’s Annual Meeting on October 18. Susan has shaped land protection in Acton for decades and is so deserving of this honor. Congratulations Susan!!
Dear Friends and Acton Conservation Trust Members, Saturday, September 23: Many thanks to the 42 volunteers, organized by OARS and the Acton Conservation Department, who removed invasive water chestnuts which have been clogging the north end of the pond and shading out native vegetation. The Ecological Restoration Coordinator estimated that 16,400 plants had been pulled … Read more