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
Members of the Trails Committee enjoy the fruits of their labor after building a bench on the dam overlooking Fitzgerald Lake. The volunteers constructed three additional benches: another at the dam, one at the junction of the Marian Street Trail and Boggy Meadow Road, and one on Boggy Meadow Road near the entrance of the Loop Trail
If you search the mass.gov Fisheries and Wildlife website for the best places to fish in western Mass, you won’t find Fitzgerald Lake on the list. But local anglers don’t need the government to tell them that this small body of water is an attractive and convenient spot to take a break from their daily
Preparedness, Pragmatism Are Key This has been banner year for ticks in the woods. The reasons are complicated and not always quantifiable. Along with high humidity and wet conditions, a less intuitive factor was a bumper crop of acorns in 2015, which produced a booming population of the deer tick host, the white-footed mouse. Ironically,