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Arborist Day of Service : River Walk and Riverfront Trails will be CLOSED Weds Nov 4th

November 4th ARBORIST DAY OF SERVICE:

Twenty local Arborists will be donating their time to Great Barrington Land Conservancy by providing services on the Lake Mansfield River Walk and Riverfront Trails. Their work will include removing hazardous trees and limbs and pruning trees to enhance safety and tree health. This will be the 31st Arborist Service Day in Berkshire County, organize Tom Ingersoll says, "We are especially pleased to be offering this service to well used community trails."

Habitat Restoration - Volunteers at Lake Mansfield!

On Saturday April 4th a great group of GBLC volunteers (10 in all, from age 3 to 70ish) handily completed a first round of invasive plant management on the lakeside trail at Lake Mansfield. While we worked we witnessed the early budding and blooming stages of willows, hazelnuts, blueberries, and spicebush. We focused weed management on barberry, multiflora rose and buckthorn. The Great Barrington DPW will help by taking away a couple large piles of plant cuttings near the boat launch. Along with cutting invasives, we even had time to plant a few red maple saplings!