Boston Flora

Tag: Wachusett Mountain State Reservation

  • Saturday, August 5, 10:00 am – 3:30 pm – Old Growth Forests Walk, Talk, and Book-Signing

    On Saturday, August 5, join Mass Audubon’s Joe Choiniere, Old-Growth Forest Specialist Bob Leverett, and Old Growth Forest Network Director and Author Dr. Joan  Maloof for a morning walk at Wachusett Mountain along the trails that pass through the old growth forest area. In the afternoon, we will gather back at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston for an afternoon presentation by Dr. Joan Maloof followed by discussion and book signing. Joan is the author of Nature’s Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests. Co-sponsored with Mass Audubon.

    For the walk, meet at Tower Hill in Boylston at 9:15 am and van and car pool to Wachusett Mountain or meet at Wachusett Mountain State Reservation Visitor Center on Mountain Rd in Princeton at 9:45 am. For the talk and book-signing, meet at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston at 2:00 pm. You may register for either the talk and book-signing only, or for the walk, talk and book signing, at https://towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org/pages/event-registration-form—old-growth-forests-walk-talk–book-signing

  • Sunday, June 8, 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Old Growth Hike at Mount Wachusett

    Join Joe Choiniere on Sunday, June 8, from 1 – 4:30 for a firsthand look at the Old Growth forest at Wachusett Mountain State Reservation. The mountain provides a living learning laboratory for investigation into how undisturbed forests grow, what biodiversity they support, and how they can provide unique information for forest ecologists, historians, geneticists, and dendro-chronologists. Meet at 1:00 PM at the Wachusett Mountain State Reservation Visitor Center 345 Mountain Road in Princeton.  Co-sponsored with Hubbardston Naturalist Club.  For more information visit www.atholbirdclub.org.