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Northwest FRAMINGHAM's RURAL LANDSCAPE BENEFITS WINTER NEWSLETTER THE WREN February 2012 Northwest Meet Our New AmeriCorps MassLIFT Framingham’s Rural Members Landscape Benefits SVT would like to introduce the two new AmeriCorps MassLIFT (Massachusetts Land Initiative for from Harrington Tomorrow) members that joined the SVT team last September for an Conservation 11-month service term. Ashley Davies is serving as a Regional Conservationist Restriction for the Land Protection program, and Audra Valaitis is serving as a Land By Christa Collins, Director of Land Protection Steward for the Stewardship program. Ashley is from Dartmouth, George and DD Harrington of Framingham are familiar faces Massachusetts and is now a permanent around SVT, in part because George is a past board member and resident of Northborough. Ashley president, and now serves as a regular office volunteer; in part studied Law, Policy, and Society at Ashley Davies and Audra because the number of conservation donations they have made are Northeastern University and has a J.D. Valaitis: SVT appreciates almost too numerous to count on one hand. from Roger Williams University School the experience, knowledge, Between 1983 and 2000, the Harringtons donated three parcels of Law. Ashley has worked at and vol- and conviviality that they unteered with several environmental and bring to our Wolbach of land along scenic Edmands Road in Framingham, now known Farm office. as Harrington Fields. In 2007, the Harringtons made a gift of a land conservation organizations, includ- conservation restriction on their 80-acre Baiting Brook Meadow ing the Aquidneck Land Trust, MA Department of Environmental Farm on Nixon Road, where they grow and sell Christmas trees. Protection, and the Buzzards Bay Coalition. Ashley’s main focus (continued on page 4) is getting to know the communities in the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord watersheds and assisting towns, local land trusts, and Sudbury Valley Trustees in their land conservation efforts. Audra has a Master’s degree in Environmental Management from Duke University and studied Environmental Science and Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She has worked throughout New England and the U.S. on a wide vari- ety of wildlife monitoring and management projects, including work with several declining or endangered bird species. During her year at SVT, Audra is focusing her attention on land stew- ardship and management. She will be completing management plans, baseline documentation, and monitoring activities on a number of different properties. She will also facilitate regional meetings and land management initiatives for the West Suburban Conservation Council. Both Ashley and Audra have contributed articles to the cur- rent edition of The Wren. Our readers can look forward to hear- ing more about what they are working on in the months ahead. The Harrington land includes pastoral views such as this, as well as wooded wetlands. Board of Directors Colin Anderson, Sudbury, President Iryna Priester, Wayland Vice President NOTES FROM RON Bruce Osterling, Sudbury, Treasurer Susan Crane, SVT Staff, Clerk Jamie Bemis, Concord Brian Clew, Framingham Sherill Cline, Sudbury I joined Sudbury Valley Trustees in 1985 when Allen Morgan was Executive Director. Richard Dinjian, Shrewsbury The people I met through this organization reinforced the impression I had from its Marylynn Gentry, Wayland Chris Jenny, Wayland publications, that SVT stood for something important to me. True, SVT was willing to Richard Johnson, Concord roll up its sleeves to find workable ways to protect key parcels of natural land in Concord Robert Kamen, Sudbury River Basin communities. And SVT was serious about taking good care of its properties. Peter Martin, Northborough This twin core of our mission remains fundamental to our decisions and underlies our Deirdre Menoyo, Sudbury strategic plan. But there has always been something else in the air here. I notice it every Arthur Milliken, Concord day in my interactions with volunteers and staff members. It’s the belief that contact with David Moore, Framingham Richard Perkins, Stow nature is important to people. Pam Resor, Acton It is fitting that SVT should be that way. Here we are, at the heart of New England. Stephen Richmond, Sudbury Our service area includes the Old Manse, beside the Concord River where Emerson Stephen Winthrop, Wayland wrote Nature. When Thoreau remarked that he had “travelled extensively in Concord,” STAFF he meant that he had taken a close look at, and measured with his feet, the land that we Ron McAdow and others work to conserve. Executive Director Yes, Sudbury Valley Trustees is a land trust, staffed and governed as professional land Ellen Byrne trusts across the country are staffed and governed, and subject to the rigors of our nation- Business Manager al Standards and Practices. Yes, our day-to-day concerns are with the practical challenges Christa Hawryluk Collins Director of Land Protection of saving land that ought to be saved and looking after land under our responsibility. Susan J. Crane And yes, when we request support, we point to our achievements in land protection and Land Protection Specialist stewardship to make our case. That said, I think our joint loyalty to SVT stems from a Ashley Davies shared deep feeling for the beauty and comfort of nature. We want to preserve the diver- AmeriCorps Member sity of our plants and animals, not just for their own sake but also for ourselves, our chil- Nancy Hallen dren, and our neighbors. We’re glad there is a Sudbury Valley Trustees because that gives Office Manager us a way to achieve a purpose dear to our hearts. As Emerson wrote: Ellie Johnson Office Assistant Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. Not the Laura Mattei sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute Director of Stewardship of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a Michael Sanders different state of mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. Director of Membership To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and Dan Stimson Assistant Director of Stewardship in the same field it beholds every hour a picture which was never seen Audra Valaitis before and which shall never be seen again. The tribes of birds and AmeriCorps Member insects, like the plants punctual to their time, follow each other, and Chris Wilson the year has room for all. Caretaker As we begin yet another new year, we at SVT wish you all the best and look forward to The Wren fostering our shared commitment to the natural and nurturing beauty that surrounds us. Nancy Hallen, Editor Joyce Dwyer & Gordon Morrison, Illustrators Jason Fairchild, The Truesdale Group, Designer Sudbury Valley Trustees Ron McAdow, Executive Director 18 Wolbach Road Sudbury, MA 01776 Tel: 978/443-5588 • Fax: 978/443-2333 E-mail: [email protected] Sudbury Valley Trustees is a regional land trust, founded Website: www.svtweb.org in 1953. For over 50 years, SVT has been dedicated to conserving land and protecting wildlife habitat of the Concord, Assabet, Sudbury river basin. This is one of the most scenic, culturally rich, and historically significant regions in the United States. Guided by a well thought-out strategic plan, SVT carries out its mission for the benefit of present and future generations. 2 / SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES / WINTER 2012 Monitoring Our Lands and Our Deer By Audra Valaitis, AmeriCorps Land Steward With greater public attention to issues native species, such as lady’s slippers such as Lyme disease, forest and land- and trilliums. These plants have the scape overbrowsing, and vehicle colli- bad luck of being very palatable to sions, our region’s deer population has Puliafico Dawn deer. When deer numbers are low been in the spotlight in recent years. to moderate, the plants can afford Much of the focus has been on the to lose some of their flowers to deer impacts of a growing deer herd – but every spring. But as the deer popu- with just how many deer do we share lation grows, enough of the flowers our watershed? Currently deer densi- can be bitten off that the plants ties in SVT’s service area are estimated have trouble keeping up their num- to be from 10 to 30 per square mile bers. Ultimately, the area grows – but biologists from MassWildlife, less diverse. the state wildlife agency, recommend Wildlife communities are also a target density of six to eight deer per impacted when deer populations square mile, a level that is based on the grow large. For example, some of land’s physical carrying capacity as well our native songbird species tuck their as minimizing conflicts with humans. nests into vegetation on the ground Why is the deer herd growing? One reason is a lack of predators, or in low-growing shrubs and tree saplings. A habitat that has been and another is an increase in suitable habitat. Historical checks on “mowed” of its low plants by a large deer herd can leave these birds the deer population included wolves, mountain lions, and human with fewer places to nest. Thrushes and ovenbirds are particularly hunters. With the elimination of those native predators, and a vulnerable to this impact. decline in the number In the coming months, SVT will strive to develop a program to of people who hunt monitor deer impacts on our properties. As stewards of the land, in Massachusetts, we want to stay informed about what’s going on in our fields Ron McAdow Ron deer in some areas are and forests. Are our plant and wildlife communities showing the now kept in check impacts of too many deer? If so, can we get a sense of how exten- by factors such as the sive the problem is? amount of food they There are several can find, disease, and possible ways that we collisions with vehicles.
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