Join us online or in person at our November Berkshire Green Drinks event with Tom Ryan, a forester with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). Tom will touch on several areas within forestry, including an overview of the…
For the past 170 years, local Stockbridge residents and other friends have gathered in front of a rock outcropping in Laurel Hill Park, located behind the Stockbridge Town Offices. This year the keynote address will be delivered by Starling (Star)…
Michael Kellett, RESTORE: The North Woods, and Susan Masino, Trinity College will discuss where our wildlands are, and review two new publications: “Forest-clearing to create early-successional habitats: Questionable benefits, significant costs” “Wildlands in New England: Past, Present, and Future” Come…
Forest regrowth requires an abundance of healthy saplings from desirable, native trees to replace the older generations of trees. This regeneration is often stunted by the overabundance of white-tailed deer who browse on these trees often so much that it…
Celebrate Arbor Day, and explore a historic farm-to-forest landscape. Discover evidence of former 1800s agricultural activity that fostered a natural reforestation. Moderate-difficult 2-mile hike on Bradley Farm Trail. For ages 8 and older. Dress for the weather and wear sturdy…
Julia Rogers, the Senior Land Protection Manager at the Housatonic Valley Association (HVA), will present at the April Berkshire Green Drinks gathering on Wednesday, April 12, at 6:00 PM in person at Barrington Brewery, 420 Stockbridge Rd, Great Barrington, and…
Imprinted into the landscape is the history of how we and other species have inhabited it, the storms and fires that have shaped it, and its response to these and other changes. Few people can “read” that imprint better than…
The forests of Vermont are one of our most important and beloved assets but today a changing climate is causing these forests to change as well. Join the National Parks Service for two half-hour presentations on this topic from researchers…
In this webinar, multi-disciplinary collaborators will discuss their year-long study of the dignity of a living red oak, its network of eco-systemic relationships, and the ubiquity of the material of wood in design and daily life. The project is led…
The Forest Climate Resilience Program is working in partnership with organizations across Northwestern Massachusetts to develop a Virtual Forest Center (VFC) to support communities to better understand threats to their forests, including climate change, and how forest stewardship can help…