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Want to Decrease Stress & Boost Your Immune System? Try Forest Bathing!

Nadine, reclining in the woods

by Nadine Mazzola, Award-Winning Author of Forest Bathing with your Dog and Certified Forest Therapy Guide Around me the trees stir in their leavesand call out, ‘Stay awhile.’ -“When I am among the trees,” poem by Mary Oliver It is difficult to explain forest bathing in words alone. It is experiential and sensory. It is […]

Solar Development Webinar Video

solar array behind fence

For those of you who missed last week’s webinar on the state solar incentives program and municipal solar planning, you can watch the recording below. This webinar covers an overview of solar development in MA, explains the basics of the newly updated state solar incentive program (SMART), and discusses how the program interacts with municipal […]

Local Conservation Network Success!

Two people in discussion, in front of a map

In our Fall/Winter newsletter, Sally wrote about Hilltown Land Trust’s upcoming workshops to facilitate local dialogue about conservation. Having not held events quite like this in the past, we weren’t sure how many people to expect. This winter, we held two public events: in Goshen and Shelburne Falls. Over 70 town leaders, landowners, foresters, students, […]

The Bears in Our Woods

Wildlife camera photo of mother bear and three cubs walking along the edge of a pond

By Andrew Madden, HLT Board Member The American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) is part of life in the Hilltowns. But it wasn’t always so. Longtime Hilltown residents might remember back to the 1960’s and 70’s when a bear sighting was still a rare occurrence. Massachusetts has been undergoing a wildlife resurgence in recent decades and […]

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