Over 15 people attended both the guided walk at Pomeroy Meadow led by Roger Anderson on June 20th and the Firefly watch led by Sean Abbott of the BEES (Biodiversity, Environment, and Ecological Sustainability Committee. The scent of Milkweed hung in the air in the Pomeroy Meadows. At Old Trolley Line an abundance of Fireflies was set against an almost full moon rising.

The first guided walk as part of the Easthampton City Nature Challenge/Bioblitz event on Sunday April 26th at Dwyer was attended by approximately 25 people who participated with identifying flora in the area utilizing iNaturalist on their smart phones as part of the Nature Challenge.

The next guided walk will be on June 6th at the White Brook Plains Conservation area. Please park along Crestview and Bayberry Drives. Please be advised that there are no established trails at this conservation area. Be prepared to traverse through tall vegetation and thus increased risk of ticks.

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.

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

Molly Goodwin, board member, recently took these pictures at Old Trolley line.