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This offer is in effect only for the month of January, and only at the Stop and Shop at 469 Pleasant Street, Attleboro.
Annual Meeting to be held November 17th
The Attleboro Land Trust is pleased to announce this year’s annual meeting will be held again in person. We welcome the public to join us in celebrating our achievements from the past year and participate in discussing environmental topics key to the Land Trust mission and the community at large.
We are especially excited to have former city councilor Mike Davis deliver our keynote address: Sustainable by Design.
Mike will be introducing an Environmental Master Plan for the City of Attleboro.
A great deal of volunteer work has gone into organizing all the aspects of planning a sustainable future for Attleboro, including:
- Water security
- Waste reduction
- Renewable Energy
- Conservation
- Sustainable Growth
- Education and Participation
The meeting will begin at 7:00 pm with the traditional brief social half-hour, followed by a short business meeting, then the keynote address.
This meeting is open to the public, so please bring a friend. Only members of the Attleboro Land Trust can vote during the brief business meeting.
Location: Murray Unitarian Universalist Church, 505 N. Main St., Attleboro Mass.
Time: 7:00pm
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2022
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Big Read Event: Poetry Scavenger Hunt to be held Oct. 9th
Big Read Event: Poetry Scavenger Hunt
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
The Attleboro Land Trust is excited to host a poem scavenger hunt! This event presents an opportunity to explore a local beautiful wooded nature preserve while contemplating the nature-centered words of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. Arrive any time from 10 to 12:30. The self-guided scavenger hunt is estimated to take 45 minutes. The event is free and open to the public and will be held rain or shine. Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. The featured poem for the event is “Beyond” from Harjo’s book An American Sunrise: Poems.
This event will take place at the Deborah and Roger Richardson Nature Preserve. (577B Wilmarth Street, Attleboro MA.)
Participants must register using the following link: EventKeeper – Popup Event
15th Annual River Clean-Up to be held September 25th.
Please join us in supporting the Ten Mile River cleanup on September 25th. (8am -11am)
(Information below from the Sun Chronicle Article)
Members of the general public, conservation commissioners, Attleboro Land Trust members and other local groups will work alongside elected officials including Mayor Paul Heroux and members of the council.
Volunteers can sign up on the day of the event at a tent in the Community Gardens on Riverbank Road.
The GPS address is 37 Hayward St., Attleboro.
Some supplies will be available, although anyone wanting to be a “River Rat” should bring their own waders or wetsuit.
Families and children are welcome to collect trash along the river walkways.
Free refreshments will be supplied by Dunkin’.
Sponsors are Heroux, the land trust, conservation commission, Dunkin’ and Friends of the Ten Mile River.
For more information contact Nick Wyllie at 508-223-2222, ext. 3145.
New TerraCorps Member for the Attleboro Land Trust – Evan Foster
Riding my bike in the Adirondacks.
My name is Evan Foster, and I will be serving as the TerraCorps member at the Attleboro Land Trust for the next several months. TerraCorps members are a part of the larger AmeriCorps National program whose mission states “making service an indispensable part of the American experience”. TerraCorps service members are placed in community-nonprofits across the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The TerraCorps mission is to engage and mobilize future leaders to get involved with local communities and conserve land for both people and nature. Equity is at the heart of what TerraCorps strives to achieve. TerraCorps members understand that individuals in underrepresented communities do not have the same access to these public lands and aim to create opportunities for those communities to experience them. The future of land conservation lies in the same goal of making land more equitable. To understand more about the TerraCorps mission, I highly recommend visit their website to read more: (https://terracorps.org/equity-in-land-conservation/).
Skiing at Jay Peak Resort in Vermont.
Growing up in Boxborough, MA in a family that highly valued outdoor recreation, my passion for environmental work was formed at a young age. My childhood experiences ranged from skating on a backyard rink to attending a canoe summer camp in Canada to swimming in the local pond to running cross country in high school. I developed a love for the outdoors, and it has shaped everything that I have done so far. When it was time for me to think about attending college, I landed on the University of Vermont because of its strong environmental program. Living in Burlington, Vermont gave me access to an endless number of outdoor activities including cross country and downhill skiing, snowshoeing, road/mountain biking, rock climbing, and numerous hikes throughout the Green Mountains. My degree in Environmental Science was complimented and enhanced by all of these activities. I soon discovered another passion of mine through my Geospatial Technologies minor which involved using satellite imagery for a variety of reasons including creating maps, analyzing spatial data, and much more. I continued with this passion into my undergraduate job at the Spatial Analysis Lab where I gained experience creating Land Use/Land Cover maps for cities and towns across North America. I developed an indispensable skill that I hope to bring to the Attleboro Land Trust. I am extremely excited to be serving with the Attleboro Land Trust and am ready to put my education and knowledge to use! Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions or want to get to know me better ([email protected]). Happy winter!
31st Annual Meeting on November 17
Save the date–the public is invited
November 17th 7:00 pm via Zoom
This year’s guests promise an expert’s look at the past 30 years of land conservation, contrasted with an exploration of what the future holds for the local environment.
Our guests are uniquely qualified to guide us on this quest. They are:
- Charlie Wyman, former land preservation specialist with the Massachusetts Audubon Society,
- the Honorable Mayor of the City of Attleboro, Paul Heroux, and
- moderating their online discussion about our environmental future will be renowned educator and talk show host, Ron Struminski.
We’ll also be recognizing some of our dedicated volunteers who have kept the Land Trust moving forward in spite of the pandemic and letting our members in on some hot news about upcoming activities and projects.
Please plan to zoom in. The Zoom invitation is posted below:
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Construction underway at the Richardson Preserve
Construction of a gravel parking lot near the street at the Richardson Nature Preserve has been in the planning stages for several years, and has now begun. Cryan Landscape Contractors are doing the work. The plans have been approved by the Attleboro Conservation Commission and the lot will be similar to gravel lots at the Colman Reservation and the Nickerson Preserve. This will solve the issue of cars getting stuck in the mud, as typically happens in early spring.
The main entrance to the preserve may be closed during construction. Pedestrian access will still be available on Wilmarth Street about 200 yards east of the main entrance where the Vernal Pool trail enters the preserve.
We estimate the work will be completed by October 17.