Please Read the Fall 2018 BBC Newsletter

If you were lucky to attend the Broad Brook Annual meeting last Sunday and hear Laurie Sanders excellent talk, you will know the long history of how Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area came into existence and how Broad Brook Coalition and the City of Northampton has made great progress regarding conservation over the past 30 years. BBC did this with the assistance of a dozens and probably hundreds of hands-on Northampton citizens like you.

Please download and read the latest BBC newsletter and catch up with what BBC has been doing this year.

• Read BBC President Bob Zimmermann’s thoughts about the past and future of FLCA.
• There are poems by local poet Kathie Fiveash from her new book, Broad Brook, Poems from Fitzgerald Lake. Kathie read some of her poems at the BBC annual meeting.
• BBC board member Dave Pritchard writes a summary of this year’s walks and talks led by the likes of Pat McDonagh and new BBC board member Brad Timm, among several others, along with a photos.
• Read about the latest stewardship efforts and improvements at Fitzgerald Lake, including a new beginning for American Chestnut trees, the ongoing but successful fight against invasive Water Chestnut, and the low dock extension to the boardwalk to help boaters.
• Long-time BBC volunteer Jim Reis writes about embryonic diapause in Nature.
• There is also a tour of the BBC website which we encourage you to explore.