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Tag: Aja Lippincott

  • Friday, July 20, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Invasive Plant Workshop

    Elizabeth Farnsworth is Senior Research Ecologist at the New England Wild Flower Society and Research Associate at Harvard Forest. On Friday, July 20, from 2 – 4, she will introduce Go Botany, a brand new interactive, online plant sharing and identification tool, at Harvard Forest, 324 Main Street in Petersham.  Part of the training will also take place in the field, identifying flora around Harvard Forest. Participants are encouraged to bring laptops, iPods and iphones for easy identification. Participants will also be asked to continue stewardship work on conservation land in their area by identifying invasives and reporting them to the Go Botany blog. Whether you have photographs, sketches, stories about using the Go Botany tool or recipes for cooking with invasives your experiences will help track invasive plants in the North Quabbin region.  The program is free.

    Please RSVP to Aja Lippincott, AmeriCorps Outreach Coordinator, Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust: 978-248-2055 ext. 21, or by email at outreach_americorps@mountgrace.org.

  • Saturday, June 9, 7:30 am – 5:00 pm – BioBlitz at the Northfield Town Forest

    Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust is joining with the Town of Northfield to host a BioBlitz on Saturday, June 9th, at the Northfield Town Forest. Volunteers are invited to come down and join the BioBlitz—an event in which people gather to survey a property and compile an extensive list of species, both plants and animals, present in the area.

    Volunteers of every level of outdoor experience are encouraged to attend. Trained experts in a variety of fields will be on hand to make final identifications of species found. The BioBlitz will have two shifts. A morning walk for bird species will be led by birders Bill and Jay Rasku and by Mount Grace Stewardship Biologist Tom Wansleben from 7:30-9:30 am.

    In the afternoon, from 1-5pm, volunteers will gather to catalog plants, fungi, and signs of animals. Participating team leaders include biologists Kasey Rolih and Brad Compton from UMass, Foresters Helen Johnson and Mike Barry, outdoor educators Clare Green and Ted Watt, tracker David Brown, and Mount Grace’s MassLIFT-AmeriCorps Land Steward Meghan Cornwall.

    There will be an arts and crafts table for children which will be led by Mount Grace’s MassLIFT-AmeriCorps Outreach Coordinator Aja Lippincott. Kids will be able to draw what they have found, help create a logo for the Town Forest and more. Kids of all ages are welcome to assist on the walk and create nature art.

    The information gathered at this event will be used to help plan future stewardship at the Northfield Town Forest, a 151-acre property protected in 2011 with assistance from Mount Grace. Come help discover the town forest on Saturday June 9th at the Northfield Town Forest trail head on Gulf Road.

    Directions to the Northfield Town Forest are as follows: From the Northfield Town Hall, head south on 63, turn east (left) onto Maple St. Continue onto Gulf Rd for about 2.2 miles. The event headquarters will be at the parking area for the Brush Mountain Conservation Area. Volunteers will be helping to direct parking. Please carpool, if possible.

    For more information or to RSVP to this event please contact Meghan Cornwall, at (978) 248-2055 x 14 or steward_americorps@mountgrace.org.