Earth Day

Earth/Arbor Day 2012

Our Trails Committee plans and runs a combined celebration of Earth and Arbor Day. In 2012, this planting project homed in on a portion of the Wyman Woods conservation area that had been included in an earlier privately supported task of remediating the land under what had been the site of the Lead Mills company. The photograph was taken in the fall of 2011.

Lead Mills site in 2011

It’s off to work we go. . .

Not one, but two troops of Girl Scouts were given a tour of Wyman Woods trails by Dennis Curtin, noted photographer and naturalist, then guided to the planting site.

Once underway, there was no stopping these new planters! Sometimes we acted in teams. . .

Working together, our new planters tried out the planting techniques taught by more experienced leaders.

… and sometimes we planted alone.

Some liked to try the new experience alone. Whether alone or together, everyone agreed that the work was really fun!

This group covered a lot of ground. . .

The same remediated area shown above, but on Earth/Arbor Day, April 2012 with the planting troops hard at work.

Big thanks to our sponsors.

On this day we planted 119 native shrubs as understory to the trees that had been planted by the remediation project and six white pine seedlings. Well done!

“Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.”
by Henry David Thoreau
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