Here at Wildlands, we take pride in our public trails and want hikers and trail users to know all about what a preserve has to offer. As such, we have updated several of our kiosks with new maps and interpretive materials, making it easier to find which trails to take and to know what wildlife to watch out for. Be sure to check them out!
Budding Artists at Wildlands Trust
We had a great time this past weekend learning about water-color painting at our Nature Card-Making Workshop led by the talented Tricia Cassady! Looks like we have some amazing artists in our midst
DECEMBER IN REVIEW
We hope everyone had happy holidays filled with friends, family, and cheer! With the start of the new year, we are feeling refreshed and invigorated to bring you more of the exciting walks, talks, and programs you love and to continue protecting as much open space and undeveloped land as possible before it is lost forever. Thank you for your support!
Last month Wildlands invited Heidi Ricci and Stefani Covino of Mass. Audubon to present their new tool MAPPR, developed in partnership with the Nature Conservancy and LandVest. This user-friendly GIS-based program allows people without GIS skills to find land with the highest conservation value at the parcel level. We hope many of the Conservation agents, commissioners, and open space committee members will have found this tool useful in conservation planning.
Many thanks to a generous supporter who donated two benches to the Great River Preserve in Bridgewater in memory of his dog. The benches now provide a nice resting point for walkers and trail users to take in the beautiful scenery of the Great River.
We had so much fun at our last volunteer appreciation event, a waffle breakfast party. We are so grateful for our tremendous volunteers that help us out all year long, and we love being able to give back and show we care! Keep an eye out for our next volunteer appreciation event this Spring.
Want to become a Wildlands Trust volunteer?
Visit our Volunteer page to learn more.
This year marked the first CommuniTree project in Plymouth in which community non-profit and service organizations created hand-made ornaments to display on the downtown Christmas tree. The only instructions were to make something that represents your organization, and is approximately the size of a toaster, and Wildlands was more than happy to come up with the ornament pictured above. Many thanks to Frank Mand and the many others that made this unique project possible.
Community Garden 2.0
We want your input!
Wildlands Trust hosted a fun and successful Community Garden at our Duxbury office, and we would like to bring the same thing with us here in Plymouth. We are currently working hard to ensure our garden plans are top-notch and fit community needs.
We are asking all our supporters who are interested in having a garden plot or participating in our gardening programs to fill out a survey to make sure we are providing the type of garden you want and the programs that interest you.
Surveys will be accepted through the month of January. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the project, please email us at stewarship@wildlandstrust.org.