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| The NRTB invites you to volunteer on Earth Day! Please join citizens from the Towns of Bridgewater and West Bridgewater as well as the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts, BSC staff, students and faculty, the Recreation Commission, Conservation Commission, Forestry Department of West Bridgewater, the Natural Resources Trust of Bridgewater and others. Earth Day will be held Saturday, April 19th. Please meet at 8:30AM (Rain or Shine) on the front steps of the Campus Center where you will be transported to one of the various town parks and conservation areas in need of cleaning and sprucing up. Volunteers will receive an Earth Day T-shirt and a free lunch back at the campus at noon! |
NRTB's 10th Annual Meeting
Friday, March 28 at 7:00 p.m.
Polish Club, 127 Spring St., Bridgewater
Special Guest Speaker
David Flynn with a tribute
to Kitty Doherty
also on the agenda...
- Town River Landing Update
- A Short business meeting
- Silent Auction and Raffle;
- Light appetizers and desserts
All welcome. $10 at the door. |
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NRTB Goes Global
The Bridgewater Parklands System can now be accessed worldwide through Google Earth. We've submitted information about the parklands and they are now available to the world through the internet. Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Better yet, Google Earth can give you directions from your door to any of the parks! Come Explore!
 Download Google Earth
Follow the instructions, and you can download this free program and start exploring this amazing digital world.
NRTB Celebrates the Life of Guy Clifford
Guy was a man so full of vigor and love of life, and all that it contains, that it seemed he would be with us forever. His enthusiasm and support for the NRTB and the Stewards of the Bridgewater Parklands was contagious. Guy led with intelligence and knowledge tempered with kindness and respect for those he worked with.
He was a mentor to all of us involved in the quest to keep Bridgewater a town that loved and respected the beautiful, natural world that surrounds us. He will be sorely missed.
Special Offer from Bridgewater Artist to Benefit NRTB
Bridgewater artist Tom Lowell has painted "Autumn Glow" - a beautiful portrayal of Great Hill in Bridgewater. The artist is making prints of this original acrylic painting available to members of NRTB through a special offer. (To view the print and for information about the artist click here.)
The retail price of the 11" x 15" inch print is $30 matted or $115 framed. Tom and his wife, Brenda, have generously offered to donate 40% of the sale price of each print to NRTB. So anyone purchasing the print at the price of $30 will actually be making a $12 donation to NRTB. (For the framed print, the purchaser will pay $115, with $46 being a donation to NRTB.) If you would like to purchase one of these lovely prints, please call NRTB at 508-697-7317 and leave a message.
A Community Read
Conservation Parkland System Introduction 101
To promote initial awareness of the municipal Conservation Parkland System, NRTB urges the community to read all 6 Conservation Parkland histories and their companion narration, the Town River Shoreline Survey, during the month of January 2007.
These stories are complete with pictures, maps, and folklore, and contain the natural, cultural and historical information for Carver's Pond, Titicut, Wyman Meadow, Tuckerwood, Stiles & Hart, and the Iron Works Parkland, plus the Conservation Commission's approved Action Plan for each site. The Town River story chronicles a canoe trip along the whole 13-mile river.
They are available electronically through links on the www.nrtb.org website, and hard copy is available at the Public Library.
The Community Preservation Act provides cities and towns with a means of accumulating funds for open space protection, historic preservation, and affordable housing. Because the funds are matched at the state level, the program would be a great bargain for Bridgewater. Find out more from the Community Preservation Act Coalition.
Until the Town of Bridgewater finishes an update to it's Open Space & Recreation Plan, it remains ineligible for a variety of state and foundation grants, because our Open Space Plan lapsed in 2001. Find out why renewing this document is important at the EOEA Open Space Plan page.
Local citizens have formed the Natural Resources Trust of Bridgewater as a land trust in order to promote the conservation of land in Bridgewater and adjoining communities. A land trust is important to the future of Bridgewater because of changes in land use that are taking place as the region continues to experience robust economic growth.
Our Vision - We will lead the community in preserving and maintaining our natural environment. Learn more about us and join our mission.
As a private nonprofit organization committed to Land Preservation and Natural Resource Conservation, NRTB's goal in sponsoring these many programs for the municipal CONSERVATION PARKLAND SYSTEM and the PARKLAND STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL is to foster a CONNECTION between the Community and their Open Space Conservation Parklands, to CHALLENGE the Community to UNDERSTAND and take PRIDE in these Special Places, and to ultimately CARE and PROTECT these irreplaceable Conservation Parklands as part of the Town's heritage. |
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