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Budgets, consultant funding, pass at marathon Stockbridge annual town meeting

Budgets, consultant funding, pass at marathon Stockbridge annual town meeting
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Despite length of meeting, Stockbridge voters make quick work of passing budget at annual town meeting

At Stockbridge annual town meeting, a lean budget awaits voter scrutiny

Our Opinion: Ice Glen, iconic natural wonder, faces dire threat

The natural beauty of the Berkshires landscape is the pride of our fair county. What do we do when a precious part of that ecological sublimity is systematically threatened? Unfortunately, Stockbridge now faces that tough question. The hemlocks of Ice Glen, the natural sentinels of a sublime slice of New England woodland, are dying. The town awaits an official report from a forestry expert on the critical damage sustained by the trees — and what can be done to save them. Last month, Ken Gooch, the retired head of forestry for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, led local residents and officials on a walk through the glen for an informal assessment of the situation — and it doesn’t look good. As Mr. Gooch simply put it, “these trees are hurting.”

Ice Glen s famous old-growth hemlocks are dying Can Stockbridge save them before it s too late? | Local News

STOCKBRIDGE — A guru of old-growth forests, Robert T. Leverett recalls first stepping into Ice Glen back in the early 1990s and thinking to himself, “Oh, my God. This is the real deal.” He declared it one of the most spectacular woodland stands in New England. But, today, he speaks with the funereal gloom of this misty-cloaked cleft just south of the village. Quote “It’s sad when an icon of the Northeast forest is lost. That’s what’s at stake here.” — Robert T. Leverett, Florence-based co-founder of the Native Tree Society and co-author of “The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast”

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