March 2024 Wildlife Column: Spring Arrives Soon

Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com Spring will officially arrive on March 19, the vernal equinox, but we have been hearing and seeing signs of the new season for weeks. Maybe the woodchuck was right on Groundhog Day, predicting an early … Read more

RLF Public Forum Recordings

Recordings are posted here for RLF’s January and February 2024 Public Forums. At the forums, RLF presented preliminary conceptual plans for redevelopment of a portion of the Mall at Lincoln Station.   If you have trouble viewing the link the browser, right click to open link in a new window.

February 2024 Wildlife Column: Winter Wonders

Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com The past month has given us assorted weather, with periods of gloomy penetrating cold but more than one interlude of warmth, getting as high as 60℉ on Feb. 10. After several weeks of looking at … Read more

2024 Seasonal Field Assistant Openings

LCD and LLCT will be hiring two seasonal field assistant positions to support the management of conservation land by controlling invasive species, maintaining trails, participating in Town-wide Pollinator Action Plan projects, and performing various other land use projects. Specific examples include mowing trails, clearing historic stonewalls, planting and maintenance of native pollinator species, and assisting … Read more

January 2024 Wildlife Column: Snow Finally Arrives

Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com Climate change and El Nino have combined to give us unsettled weather and much more than average rainfall over the past month. The ground is saturated and some homeowners are dealing with wet basements, while … Read more

RLF Public Forum January 18 2024

RLF will hold a public forum on Thursday, January 18th at 7pm via Zoom to present preliminary conceptual plans for redevelopment of a portion of the Mall at Lincoln Station. There will be a brief presentation and then questions and feedback welcome. Recording available here. If you have trouble viewing the link the browser, right … Read more

December 2023 Wildlife Column: Winter Landscapes

Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com On December 21, the winter solstice, we shall officially welcome the new season, with the shortest amount of daylight in the year. Thereafter, the hours of daylight will gradually increase. The weather has been varied … Read more

A Letter to the Community Re: Rezoning

Published on November 30th 2023 on Lincoln Talk and submitted to the Lincoln Squirrel.  PDF Letter to the Community November 30, 2023 Dear Lincoln Residents, As the December 2nd Town Meeting approaches, we thought it would be helpful to briefly remind you of who we are, why we think our preliminary proposal to redevelop the … Read more

November 2023 Wildlife Column: Wildlife Activity as Winter Approaches

Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 of gwynloud555@gmail.com The past month has seen wide swings in temperature, with summery days (up to 80℉!) at the end of October and the first hard frost in early November. In my garden it came the night … Read more

FAQs about the RLF

In advance of the HCA community forums and December Town Meeting, RLF has prepared a series of frequently asked questions (and answers) about the organization.   What is the RLF? What is the LLCT? “…let us set out in the hope that our descendants may say it has been not less well with them than … Read more