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PCT founder estate sale a success!

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For the two days that the estate sale took place the efforts of the Pascommuck board and membership in sorting, tagging and displaying a number of items paid off. The sale resulted in a little over $5000 dollars being raised. Thanks to all those that came out to support the Trust and find a bargain in the process! By the way the canoe pictured below in the gallery is still available (without the skeleton). If anyone is interested please use our contact form available here.

Just a reminder that an ice cream social and raffle will be held on October 13th from 10 AM to 2 PM at John Bator Park.

Raffle First Prize
Raffle – Second, Third and Fourth Prizes

2024 Spring Plant Sale Results

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The Saturday Spring Plant sale was held on a very cloudy Saturday. The City hall parking lot was also filled with numerous cars for people attending the fishing derby at Nashawannuck Pond. Despite this, the plant sale took in an impressive $1,793.81 from plant sales as well as $366 for the raffle tickets for a total of $2,159.81. Sixteen new PCT members were also signed up. Thanks to everyone that participated to make the plant sale a success!!

Guided walks held at various sites in Easthampton

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On March 26th PCT hosted a guided walk of Old Pascommuck as well as the Mount Tom North Trailhead as part of the Mass Land Trust coalitions annual meeting. And on May 4th Marty Klein and Tom Lautzenheiser gave a guided tour of the Dwyer conservation area that was attended by 14 participants.

Mass. Land Trust coalition tour – Old Pascommuck
Dwyer tour May 4th

Activities to do outside with your children.

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Below is a link to a number of resources sent to us from a representative from Stop Nature Deficit Disorder (website link – Stopndd.org). The document lists a number of resource links to various activities to keep your children busy outside and connecting with nature during these trying times.

https://pctland.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Overcoming-nature-deficit-disorder.pdf

2024 Annual Meeting

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The 2024 annual meeting was attended by approximately 35 people. During the business part of the meeting there was some discussion regarding dogs and dog owners on the properties as there have been problems with unleashed dogs. Members indicated that they noticed more wildlife on properties where dogs were not allowed versus those where they were.

Marty Klein, board member, presented an informative talk and slide show about wild mushrooms through the seasons during the second half of the meeting.
Thanks to all who participated.

For those who missed the meeting there are two separate links for the business part and the wild mushroom presentation:
*Link to the 2024 business meeting.
*Link to the wild mushroom presentation.