The Pascommuck Conservation Trust
Preserving our past. Protecting our future.
The plant sale was held on a cool cloudy Saturday. Perhaps because of the opening of the Big E as well as a very wet summer the number of people attending the plant sale was not as numerous as previous plant sales during the fall.
Despite the lower number of people attending the sales from plants, t-shirts, and memberships totaled $1,064 and raffle ticket sales totaled $295. The grand total came to $1,359.
Thanks to all who attended and contributed!
Updated signage was installed this week along East Street and the bike path. The sign includes new acquired property The Old Bed- Fish & Wildlife area which abuts the Old Pascommuck property and is still in development for access trails.
This years Easthampton High School student recipient of the Pascommuck Conservation Trust Scholarship, given in memory of Ed Dwyer, is Karina Patterson. Karina Patterson plans to study marine biology.
Congratulations Karina!
Pascommuck Trust members Marty Klein and Gerrit Stover were featured in a Daily Hampshire Gazette article published on Monday March 13th. They both gave a detailed description of how the proposed project would have an environmental impact and propose an alternate plan that would balance the need for affordable housing and conservation. Here is a link to the full article.
The annual meeting held on March 7th at City Space was attended by around 40 people this year as well as some attending via Zoom. During the first half of the meeting Marty Klein, longtime board member, rose to give tribute to John Bator, who this year stepped down as president. After extolling all his efforts and accomplishments as President, John was presented with a chainsaw lamp fashioned by Kevin Mulligan, a longtime member and main land and trail maintenance person for the Trust. A YouTube video of the first half of the meeting can be accessed through this link.
The second half of the meeting was a presentation by Wayne Feiden, former long-time Northampton Director of Planning. The theme of his talk was “How Development and Conservation Can Coexist”. He gave many examples of developments that were revised after many meetings and discussions that led to more balanced development projects. The YouTube video of his presentation can be accessed through this link.
