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
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.
Working together, our new planters tried out the planting techniques taught by more experienced leaders.
Some liked to try the new experience alone. Whether alone or together, everyone agreed that the work was really fun!
The same remediated area shown above, but on Earth/Arbor Day, April 2012 with the planting troops hard at work.
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!