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 not arrive until the vernal equinox on March 20, but spring is already in the air, with the sun higher each day, the hours of daylight longer, birds singing, and buds swelling. Crocuses … Read more
Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 of gwynloud555@gmail.com Once again, temperatures varied widely over the past month and we have had little snow. Feb. 3 and 4 brought record-breaking cold to New England, but the very next day we were back in the … Read more
Specific Responsibilities and Tasks: 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 … Read more
Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 of gwynloud555@gmail.com In view of the many uncertainties in our world, it is comforting to know that the Earth keeps spinning and making its way around the sun. Now that we have passed the winter solstice, the … Read more
Nearly 180 attendees joined us live for Doug Tallamy’s presentation in early December 2022. Tallamy masterfully weaved the story of insect and bird declines with a thread of hope for the future, if we all take steps to live with nature, instead of outside it. Tallamy shared tips and tricks for increasing backyard biodiversity, and … Read more
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 weather over the past month has vacillated between unusually warm (e.g. 60℉ on Dec. 3) and very cold, causing a skim of ice on ponds. Looking back at December columns for recent years, this … Read more
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 colors of the landscape are more muted now that most leaves have fallen, including the spectacular oranges and reds of sugar maples. Many oaks, however, cling to their leaves in a rich display of … Read more
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 seen considerable sways in temperature, with the thermometer dipping into the thirties sporadically, but also a few summery days in the seventies. We have had some days of welcome rain, but … Read more
Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com. What a difference a year makes: my column for September 2021 described our unusually wet summer! We certainly could have used some of that rain this summer, as we have been in severe or critical … Read more
Patti Cable continued to volunteer for LLCT as a nest box monitor in 2022. She monitored 10 boxes throughout the season, starting in March. The last boxes were cleaned out and closed up in August. There are eight boxes in Chapman Pasture, one box in a small clearing near Twin Pond, and one box in … Read more
