Jody Harris

Woodcock Watch

April 12, 2024

If you were driving on Littlefield Road in Boxborough on Monday, April 1st, you may have noticed twenty or so people sitting in the Rolling Meadows field. Not an April Fool’s Day joke, but an Acton Conservation Trust (ACT) woodcock watch! What happens on a “woodcock watch”? Around…

Acton Conservation Trust Encounters “Snakes of the World and New England”

April 1, 2024

by Jody Harris

This article is adapted from an article by Jody Harris on the website of the Acton Conservation Trust. A group of Acton Conservation Trust (ACT) board members waited in the parking lot of Acton Town Hall on Sunday, March 17 for Rick Roth, president of Cape Ann Vernal…

Trackers examining evidence on the ground and on a fallen tree of otter visits.

Winter Tracking Walk

February 7, 2024

by Jody Harris

Adapted by Franny Osman from an article by Jody Harris written for Acton Conservation Trust The last snowfall had been a week before, but as temps all week were low and skies gray, the woods still held plenty of snow for tracking the animals who make their home…

A long table covered with a variety of shapes and sizes of mushrooms

Acton Conservation Trust Hosts Mushroom Experts for Foraging at Wills Hole

October 22, 2023

by Jody Harris

Acton Conservation Trust members and friends enjoyed a beautiful fall day during a joint event with Boston Mycological Club (BMC) on Sunday, October 1. Around 100 people from the two groups gathered at Wills Hole Conservation Land to search for mushrooms. Armed with baskets and special curved fungus…

Woodcock Watch

Acton Conservation Trust Encounters “Snakes of the World and New England”

Winter Tracking Walk

Acton Conservation Trust Hosts Mushroom Experts for Foraging at Wills Hole

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