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Tag: bird habitat

  • Wednesdays, May 26, June 2, & June 9, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm – 2021 Massachusetts Town Forest Webinar Series: Enhancing Bird Habitat and Climate Adaptation in Your Community

    This three-part Massachusetts Town Forest Webinar series focuses on managing community forests for bird habitat and climate resilience. Join conservation and forestry professionals to learn how communities across the Commonwealth are managing town forests for carbon, climate resilience, and wildlife habitat. This webinar series is hosted by the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation with funding from the Working Forest Initiative. Visit the Massachusetts Woodlands Institute website to register or click the links below. 

    Bird Habitat & Climate Resiliency in Your Community
    May 26, 2021
    6:30pm-9:00pm

    Habitat for Birds and other wildlife remain one of the primary management objectives for both municipalities and private forest landowners across the commonwealth.  Please join us for an introduction to DCR’s Foresters for the Birds Program; assessing habitat for forest birds; and silvicultural approaches to create desired habitat conditions. Case studies on landscape and stand-level planning and management to improve forest habitat diversity and climate resiliency will also be explored in this webinar.

    Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C6Mk2IowQLq17xvaOkxVFg
    Climate Adaptation & Resiliency in Your Community
    June 2, 2021
    6:30pm-9:00pm

    Forestland has significant carbon sequestration and storage capabilities, which can be used to offset greenhouse gas emissions. As forests face increasing threats, forestry professionals are working to identify community needs and explore how evolving scientific knowledge could support climate-informed community forest management. Please join us for an introduction to the role of carbon in our forests and forest management options, as well as a case study on the Tri-City Carbon Project.

    Registration Link:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1zkbsdsdT9a8GCNuQ4RFj Funding for Enhanced Habitat, Climate Adaptation & Resiliency 
    June 9, 2021
    6:30pm-9:00pm

    Communities across the Commonwealth are finding creative ways to integrate climate science into on-the-ground decision making regarding community forests and management. Community forests benefit all of us by providing a myriad of environmental, health and economic benefits. However, these forests are experiencing a multitude of stressors stemming from climate change. Please join us for information on funding strategies to respond to forest conservation, habitat, and climate challenges in your community. Recently completed habitat and climate-informed community forest management projects will be explored through case studies.

    Registration Link:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_elENPSZERXe3JI0FVbtkKQ

  • Friday, August 26, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Nesting Project: Connecting Nature with Art

    Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road in Stockbridge, is branching out.  Consider the great outdoors your artist studio and learn how to make sculpture using twigs, sticks, string, leaves, moss, and other natural materials. The project: think like a bird and use imagination and creative engineering to build a nest for your yard or garden. The project focuses on constructing natural materials without glue, tape, staples or hammer and nails, rather like a bird. Take a tour of the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Bird Habitat Exhibition, watch a demonstration, collect materials on the ground of the garden and then join artist Ann Kremers for a delightful nest building exploration. Take home your nests and the skills to construct other environmental art projects in your own back yard. This workshop is appropriate for adults or children 10 and up accompanied by an adult.  The program will be held Friday, August 26, from 10 – noon.

    Ann Kremers is an artist living in Bennington, Vermont. She focuses on watercolor, drawing and teaches environmental art to all age groups. She has led many workshops thorough out northern Berkshire County connecting people with nature through art and has taught at the Clark Museum and in area schools. BBG member price $25, nonmembers $35.  Register online at www.berkshirebotanical.org.  Below is artist Laura Ellen Bacon’s sculpture Fallen Nest, copyright Laura Ellen Bacon.  This woven artwork was commissioned by the Charnwood Museum and created on site.

  • Massachusetts Christmas Tree Association

    The goal of Massachusetts Christmas tree growers is to produce a quality “Real Christmas Tree” for the retail and wholesale markets.  While visiting their member farms, they encourage you to enjoy “the experience,” create memories, and develop cherished family holiday traditions. To find a local farm near you, log on to www.christmas-trees.org and click “Find a Local Tree Farm.”  You may also call 978-365-5818, or email info@christmas-trees.org.  All the information—location of farm, how to select and care for your Christmas tree, and the environmental benefits of choosing a “real” tree—is at your fingertips.  Find the nearest spot to cut your own, as well.

    Nearly all Massachusetts Christmas trees are grown as a farm crop for the primary purpose of harvest.  Your choice of a fresh-cut tree continues the natural cycle of planting, nurturing, and harvesting trees in our state.

    Growing Christmas trees properly can be ecologically beneficial—one acre of Christmas trees provides enough fresh oxygen for 18 people. Young trees actively cleanse the air we breathe and create green belts in urban areas providing clean air for all of us. In addition, Christmas tree plantations preserve open space and provide homes for bird habitat, insects, and wildlife.

    1. After the holidays, consider giving your tree a second life as compost, mulch or chips to be used later in a garden or at a landscape project.
    2. Clip the branches from the tree and use them as a protective cover on garden plants.
    3. Use the tree as a birdfeeder which can also be a cover shelter and a shield from harsh weather.
    4. If you prefer, transport your tree to a recycling center.

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  • Wednesday, September 23, 10:00 am – Birds of Two Worlds

    The Birds & Beansâ„¢ story began in Toronto in 1998 when Madeleine and David Pritchard opened their Café and Roastery – serving only ‘Bird Friendly’® coffee. Ten years later Scott Weidensaul (Pulitzer prize finalist author and naturalist, ‘Living on the Wind’, ‘Of a Feather’) and Bill Wilson took up the cause to shift coffee drinking behavior of bird lovers in New England and New York.  Bill’s Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC) ‘Bird Friendly’® certification means that Birds & Beans â„¢ coffee is 100%-organic shade-grown, ensuring the conservation of migratory bird habitat in Latin America. Tanagers, thrushes, orioles, warblers, oven-birds and other wonderful birds nesting in Northeast America find sanctuary in the rustic canopy, rain forest-like environments of family coffee farms that carry the SMBC certification. Sun grown coffee – genetically modified and heavily dependent on chemical fertilization, pesticides and herbicides – adds to the destruction of critical bird habitat in Latin America. ‘Birds & Beans the good coffee’ â„¢ is part of the solution. He wants to help add thousands of hectares of shade grown, organic coffee habitat to the farms already producing a truly sustainable and environmentally responsible crop.

    The Birds & Beans team has grown to include three ‘ Voices for the Birds‘ – authors, naturalists, educators and conservationists. Kenn Kaufman (‘Kingbird Highway’, Kaufman Field Guide series) and Bridget Stutchbury (‘Silence of Songbirds’, Professor and Director of The Stutchbury Lab at York University, Toronto) have joined Scott Weidensaul in getting the word out about The Good Coffee. Kenn, Bridget and Scott are touring New England and New York in 2009 and 2010 for The Birds & Beans Talks â„¢, a series of free lectures about the birds we know and love and how our lives and theirs are inexorably connected.   An optional lunch with our speaker will follow the Garden Club of the Back Bay  meeting, which will take place at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.  Guests welcome. Pre-registration required.  Luncheon is $19 per person.  For additional information, email info@bostonflora.com.

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