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Volunteers planted New England Blazing Star at Bamford Preserve, a rare sandplain grassland on Martha's Vineyard. Sandplain grasslands are biodiversity hotspots found only along the northeast Atlantic Coast.
Nestled between Slough Cove Road and South Beach sits Katama’s Bamford Preserve, a 60-acre parcel of land owned by The Nature Conservancy. On a warm sunny Thursday, a team consisting of members from various conservation organizations and public volunteers were led by conservancy stewardship manager Mike Whittemore, in planting 1,000 rare New England blazingstar plants […]
The Oak Bluffs select board voted 4-0, with one member absent, to approve a tree species change for the Circuit Avenue streetscape project. On the recommendation of Tim Wong of the Waterfield Design Group and Tim Boland, executive director of Polly Hill Arboretum, the board nixed Callery pears (also known as Bradford pears) in favor […]
The West Tisbury select board unanimously approved the formation of a tree advisory committee during a Zoom meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 9. The issue of replacing dangerous trees in West Tisbury was brought up in October. Tim Boland, who is helping to establish the committee and is the executive director of Polly Hill Arboretum, said […]
The recent news of tree cutting and replacement planting raises the question, Do we have a plan for our future treescapes? No, the simple answer is, the Island’s insular town administrators plan and plant without thoughtful consideration of all the options. Poor plant selection without regard for adaptability, or choosing old and inferior (often invasive) […]