Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Town Forest Walk this Saturday
Monday, April 18, 2011
Forest Committee to meet
The Town Forest Committee continues to meet on the 3rd Wed of each month at Town Hall at 7:30 pm. All are welcome :)
Thursday, April 7, 2011
This is the 2nd Saturday!
Saturday please join us for a hike in the Town Forest. We will leave from Park Dr at noon and hope to see some frog eggs! It's vernal pool season, after all! Bring water and a snack, and DO wear bug spray!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Printable Vernal Pool Field Guide
Here is a great resource for those of you who will be out looking for Frogs and "Sallies"(Salamanders)
You can print it two sided and laminate it to bring out in the warm spring rain!
http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/regions_pdf/hrepwpwid.pdf
Also check this out: the Vernal Pool Association is on facebook !
www.facebook.com/VernalPoolAssociation
You can print it two sided and laminate it to bring out in the warm spring rain!
http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/regions_pdf/hrepwpwid.pdf
Also check this out: the Vernal Pool Association is on facebook !
www.facebook.com/VernalPoolAssociation
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Snow Hike is on !
Come on out for a hike today in the Town Forest!
High NOON- Park Drive
See post below for details!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Inspirational and About Trees
A Nobel Peace Prize winner finds spiritual values in planting trees
Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement, says spiritual values are the key to healing ourselves and our environment.
From the Christian Science Monitor by Gregory M. Lamb, / Staff writer / January 24, 2011
New York
On a visit to Japan, Wangari Maathai learned the story of the hummingbird and the forest fire. While the other animals run in fear or hang their heads in despair, the hummingbird flies above the fire time and again, releasing a few drops of water from its tiny beak.
In 2004 Maathai was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for her work founding the Green Belt Movement, which enlists villagers, and especially women, to improve their local environment.
Since then, she's concluded that people's values are what motivate them. If the values are good ones, good actions will follow. Hence it's importance for people to tap their spiritual traditions for guidance in caring for the environment, she says.
"I saw that if people have [good] values, they can sustain what they are doing," says Maathai in a recent interview at a New York City hotel not far from the United Nations, where she's addressed the General Assembly in the past.
"If you don't have good values, you'll embrace vices," she says. And if we give in to the vices, "We destroy ourselves. We destroy the environment. If we can embrace [good] values, we also heal ourselves. And in the process we heal the environment."
That's the message of her new book, "Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World."
People learn these values from their parents, their teachers, and their religious leaders, says Maathai, whose own background is Christian.
In the 1970s, her call for African villagers to plant trees may have seemed like a simplistic response to complex environmental problems. But she realized trees hold both symbolic and practical value.
"People use trees for so many things. It was easy to get into a community to talk about trees," Maathai recalls. They provide immediate practical resources: food, firewood, and shelter. They fight soil erosion.
Today, her Billion Tree Campaign has resulted in more than 11 billion trees being planted worldwide.
Her Green Belt Movement embraces four key values: love for the environment, gratitude and respect for Earth's resources, self-empowerment and self-betterment, and the spirit of service and volunteerism.
The Green Belt followers, many of them women, take simple actions in their communities, such as tending tree nurseries, terracing their fields to curb erosion, collecting rainwater, planting home gardens, and building low-tech sand dams.Maathai attributes her ideas as having come from "the Source" or, in a Christian context, God. But listening for ideas must also be accompanied by "an attitude that allows you to take advantage of that awakening," she writes in "Replenishing the Earth." "This entails keeping your mind, eyes, and ears open, so that when an idea arrives you'll be ready for it."
Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement, says spiritual values are the key to healing ourselves and our environment.
From the Christian Science Monitor by Gregory M. Lamb, / Staff writer / January 24, 2011
New York
On a visit to Japan, Wangari Maathai learned the story of the hummingbird and the forest fire. While the other animals run in fear or hang their heads in despair, the hummingbird flies above the fire time and again, releasing a few drops of water from its tiny beak.
In 2004 Maathai was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for her work founding the Green Belt Movement, which enlists villagers, and especially women, to improve their local environment.
Since then, she's concluded that people's values are what motivate them. If the values are good ones, good actions will follow. Hence it's importance for people to tap their spiritual traditions for guidance in caring for the environment, she says.
"I saw that if people have [good] values, they can sustain what they are doing," says Maathai in a recent interview at a New York City hotel not far from the United Nations, where she's addressed the General Assembly in the past.
"If you don't have good values, you'll embrace vices," she says. And if we give in to the vices, "We destroy ourselves. We destroy the environment. If we can embrace [good] values, we also heal ourselves. And in the process we heal the environment."
That's the message of her new book, "Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World."
People learn these values from their parents, their teachers, and their religious leaders, says Maathai, whose own background is Christian.
In the 1970s, her call for African villagers to plant trees may have seemed like a simplistic response to complex environmental problems. But she realized trees hold both symbolic and practical value.
"People use trees for so many things. It was easy to get into a community to talk about trees," Maathai recalls. They provide immediate practical resources: food, firewood, and shelter. They fight soil erosion.
Today, her Billion Tree Campaign has resulted in more than 11 billion trees being planted worldwide.
Her Green Belt Movement embraces four key values: love for the environment, gratitude and respect for Earth's resources, self-empowerment and self-betterment, and the spirit of service and volunteerism.
The Green Belt followers, many of them women, take simple actions in their communities, such as tending tree nurseries, terracing their fields to curb erosion, collecting rainwater, planting home gardens, and building low-tech sand dams.Maathai attributes her ideas as having come from "the Source" or, in a Christian context, God. But listening for ideas must also be accompanied by "an attitude that allows you to take advantage of that awakening," she writes in "Replenishing the Earth." "This entails keeping your mind, eyes, and ears open, so that when an idea arrives you'll be ready for it."
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Bundle up!
Snow Hike in the Holbrook Town Forest
Please join us on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at high noon
Dress warm in layers!
Including snow pants, boots, hats and gloves.
While this is a hike, you are can bring your ski poles, snow shoes or cross country skis! (Skiers can go first)
Bring water and a snack. We will meet at Park Dr entrance, at the giant mountain of snow. Please carpool if possible.
PS You won’t need bug spray!
Sponsored by the Friends of the Holbrook Town Forest & the Holbrook Town Forest Committee.
Please join us on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at high noon
Dress warm in layers!
Including snow pants, boots, hats and gloves.
While this is a hike, you are can bring your ski poles, snow shoes or cross country skis! (Skiers can go first)
Bring water and a snack. We will meet at Park Dr entrance, at the giant mountain of snow. Please carpool if possible.
PS You won’t need bug spray!
Sponsored by the Friends of the Holbrook Town Forest & the Holbrook Town Forest Committee.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Our National Bird: We told you we saw a bald eagle!
Look what the friends of Blue Hills saw: "Former FBH Board member and avid birder, Andrew Joslin, spotted a bald eagle at the Blue Hills flying between Houghton's Pond and Tucker Hill."
In recent years Bald Eagle has been spotted at the Great Weymouth Resevoir, and near the Dalton Club/Hallamore area.
Of course they need trees to nest in! Another reaon why we need to protect forested public land!
In recent years Bald Eagle has been spotted at the Great Weymouth Resevoir, and near the Dalton Club/Hallamore area.
Of course they need trees to nest in! Another reaon why we need to protect forested public land!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Please join us for Forest events in 2011
Save the dates, details to follow!
Second Saturday of each month:
February 12th
March 12th
April 9th
May 14th
June 11th
July 9th
August 13th
September 10th
October 8th
November 12th
December 10th
Second Saturday of each month:
February 12th
March 12th
April 9th
May 14th
June 11th
July 9th
August 13th
September 10th
October 8th
November 12th
December 10th
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