August 18, 2019
On Saturday 17 August, Bob and Alice Roemer removed 3 fallen trees from the Sawyer Mill Trail, which is accessible from the Philips Trail. See the south section of the Rattlesnake Map.
August 17, 2019
On Thursday August 15 and Saturday August 17 Larry Kunz organized a group to clear bittersweet and cut back low hanging branches at Bowers Springs. Bittersweet is a big problem. It is killing some of the impressive trees in many Read more…
August 11, 2019
August 4; A group of walkers risked the rain to take a walk and look at the preservation of Philips Land. This was led by Rebecca Longvall (Bolton Conservation Agent), Betsy Taylor-Kennedy (former Board Member of Bolton Conservation Trust), Christa Read more…
On Friday August 2 Bob Roemer led a team of Rebecca, Betsy, Alice and Gordon to remove two dangerous trees on the Bob Horton Trail. These trees had been seriously damaged because of a micro burst during one of the Read more…
August 9, 2019
Larry, Ethan( Larry’s grandson) and Jeff went out and cleared the blowdown on the trails. There were several trees blown down after storms or wind. Larry was attack by several thousand bees, and sustain many stings. Despite that, the team Read more…
August 4, 2019
New signs put in place by Gordon and Winslow and the trail is open. You can walk from Sawyer Road almost to Fyfeshire without needing to use Wattaquadock Hill Road.
June 17, 2019
Steve, Larry and Gordon finished clearing the trail on Monday 17 June. There were a number of small trees and shrubs to be cleared. Also a few dead mid-size pine trees were removed from the route. The placement of arrows Read more…
June 11, 2019
Steve, Larry and Gordon started work on a clearing the undergrowth, fallen trees, etc. on new trail that will parallel Wattaquadock Hill Road across the Town-owned Haynes Wheeler Land. This new trail will connect Sawyer Road with the Fyfeshire Conservation Read more…
Larry alerted the Steering Committee to a large fallen tree on the Kettle Hole Trail. This tree was forcing trail users to walk around the blockage off the marked routes and potentially on to private land. So on Saturday June Read more…
A well-attended group met on Sunday, May 19th, at the Lime Kiln parking lot to take part in a guided walk through the lower half of the Bob Horton Trail to better understand the botany of that area of Bolton. Read more…
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