Froggy in Action! Click to enlarge!

We think this is a Male Wood Frog, anyone?http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/wood_frog.htm

Happy Spring!

Here he is the first Frog of Spring! Seen tonight in Holbrook, making his way across Pond Street! A sign that the future looks bright!

Cranberry Brook ACEC on a Recent Snowy Morning

Friends of the Holbrook Town Forest seek sign making supplies

WHAT WE NEED Most of all:
Clean smooth boards:
1 x 6, or 1 x 8 -48” and also shorter lengths
Paint: Ben Moore Chrome Green “Moorglo/soft gloss”
Bright white acrylic exterior enamel
A couple of paint brushes.
Also we need Deckmate plus evercote 8 x 3” Phillips square Drive screws (or similar)
Rags
Scotch-brite green scrubbies
1” foam brushes
Muralo Waterbourne Acrylic (1700 series)in Safety Blue/Safety Red/Safety Orange and Safety Yellow for markers, but this is not an immediate need.
We hope to make a few larger signs/ or kiosks, and will need plans, and supplies for them.
Always can use work gloves, too, and the infamous blue bags.

Holbrook's Wetland Bylaw

Forested Wetlands (as is much of Holbrook Town Forest) are highly valued for there contribution to clean water.
Here is a little information about the wetland bylaws, which Holbrook adopted in 1994.

http://maccweb.org/bylaws/holbrook_bylaw.doc

No person shall remove, fill, dredge, build upon, degrade, or otherwise alter resource areas protected by this by-law, or cause, suffer, or allow such activity to continue or allow such fill or other alteration to be left in place, without the required authorization pursuant to this by-law.

The term “alter” means to change the conditions of any area subject to protection by this by-law and shall include but not be limited to one or more of the following actions upon areas described in this by-law:

(a) the removal, excavation or dredging of soil, sand, gravel or aggregate material of any kind;

(b) the changing of pre-existing drainage characteristics, flushing characteristics, salinity distribution, sedimentation patterns, flow patterns and flood storage retention areas;

(c) the drainage, disturbance or lowering of the water level or water table;

(d) the dumping, discharging or filling with any material which could degrade the water quality;

(e) the driving of piling, erection of buildings or structures of any kind;

(f) the dumping, discharging or filling with any material which may degrade water quality;

(g) the placing of any object or obstruction whether or not it interferes with the flow of water;

(h) the destruction of plant life, including the cutting of trees;

(i) the changing of water temperature, biochemical oxygen demand and other natural characteristics of the receiving water;

(j) any activities, changes or work which pollutes any body of water or groundwater;

(k) the application of pesticides or herbicides in a freshwater wetland or within the 100’ buffer zone of the freshwater wetland.

Any person who violates any provision of this by-law, or regulations, permits, or administrative orders issued thereunder shall be punished by a fine of not more than $300, upon approval by the Board of Selectmen. Each day or portion thereof during which a violation continues, or unauthorized fill or other alteration remains in place, shall constitute a separate offense, and each provision of the by-law, constitute a separate offense.