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MAY 2018 - The Little Walk, Bioreserve Walk
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ACTIVITY ALERT - May's Exploring the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve (SMB) Walk. The Little Walk. Did you walk this past Saturday's BIG WALK out in the beautiful SMB? If you did, you might want to walk a little less this coming Saturday, May 12. If you did not, here's an opportunity to take a less arduous trek, the Little Walk, through the springtime forest.
During the warmer time of the year, like now, we meet at 8 a.m. We will meet at The Trustees' parking area at the intersection of Indian Town Road and Yellow Hill Road, Fall River, MA.
Wear appropriate footwear. Water and snack always a good idea. Insect repellent handy to have when walking area woodlands from May through October. Rain cancels walk.
Approximate length of walk 3 1/2 miles.
Here are a few photos from Saturday's BIG WALK. It was a perfect day for a walk in the woods:
    Photos - Liz Garant, Barry French
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ACTIVITY ALERT - May's Little Walk Exploring the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve (SMB) and June's upcoming Turtle Walk This past Saturday morning some may have stayed away because rain was predicted. However, the rain concerns were premature and it didn't start raining until noon after we had finished our walk.
The Little Walk was little in more ways than one. Not only was the walk only 3 miles long, but only five hardy Homo sapiens explorers and one exploring Canis lupus familiaris participated.
Along the way we examined the new signs of spring. Tender young foliage, soft and downy, was emerging in various shades of pastel pink, yellow and green from recently opened buds. Great crested flycatchers were giving their "breep, breep" police whistle calls and tiny ovenbirds were yelling out, "teacher, teacher, teacher" throughout the forest.
Our exploratory walk took us down to view the Bioreserve's colony of blooming daffodils and narcissus. Daffodil/narcissus family members are much beloved signs of spring after a long New England winter. Found around the world today, in thousands of cultivated hybrids and varieties, their original home is Portugal and Spain.
Similar to the Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust's Parson Reserve's spring daffodil spectacle although on a much smaller scale ...the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve contains some long ago plantings by someone who lived in the woods and spent a lot of time planting bulbs. Although now being shaded-out by the returning forest, some still bloom each April and early May. Although the daffodils had already done their thing, the narcissus were in prime condition.
 Feral narcissus poeticus in bloom.  Narcissus possess a wonderful fragrance. Is that a large bumblebee that flower has attracted?
 Four Bioreserve explorers heading back to the trailhead.
June's Exploring the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve will be a turtle walk on June 2. More info in a week or so when we decide where we are going to meet. Watch for it.
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Articles of Interest from our May readers and others
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Bike Fall River - Helmet Giveaway
On May 26th, a beautiful spring day, volunteers from Bike Fall River and Mass In Motion gave away 47 helmets to very happy kids at Father Travassos Park in Fall River, MA.
Photos by Brian Pearson
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ACTION ALERT - A Critical Time - Please consider a donation for Phase Two of our effort to save the Quequechan River Rail Trail We received a photo and a report that Sitec surveyors were recently seen on the Alfred J. Lima Quequechan River Rail Trail (AJLQRRT) along the section of trail that a developer and some of his friends in political office seek to destroy. Unlike in the spring of 2017, when the surveyors told us freely who they were working for and why, this time they refused to answer questions.
 May 2018 photo of surveyor and transit on rail trail The donations solicited by The Alliance To Save The Trail, over the past winter, have gone to pay for legal representation to prevent this private destruction of public parkland from occurring. An amazing amount of time and effort has gone into ferreting-out info through Freedom of Information Act filings and questioning of principals involved reaching all the way back to 2013 down to today. All the taking of parkland chicanery had been done quietly, behind closed doors, hoping to keep the public in the dark. Hopefully, with what we have discovered, we can stop this bold rail trail land grab that the public, that's all of us, already paid 8 million dollars for.
Thanks to all for your earlier donations. Those funds donated for legal representation, at this time, have been greatly diminished. Meetings with our attorneys and state agencies and attorney research and report compilations have taken their toll. Presently, all that material has been turned over to Attorney General Maura Healy's Office. We anticipate action on this important matter very shortly.
As we've said in earlier appeals, experienced legal representation is very expensive. Please donate today, any amount, large or small, to save Fall River's rail trail from destruction. Yes, it is a shame we have to pay again to now defend this tremendous Fall River asset that we already paid for.
At this time, the Alliance consists of Bike Fall River, Green Futures, Friends of the Alfred J. Lima Quequechan Rail Trail, Fall River Park Advocates, and the Flint and Niagara Neighborhood Associations. If your group or association would like to join the Alliance, email us and let us know. We, Green Futures, have been authorized by the Alliance to collect all trail donations to pay the legal firm representing the Alliance to Save the Trail. All donations, large or small, are important to saving the trail. If you choose to donate online go to info@greenfutures.org and follow the instructions. If you choose to donate by check, make it out to Green Futures. On the check's memo line write "The Alliance" or "trail legal fund". Mail to: Green Futures THANK YOU! |
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