By Radha Iyengar
On Saturday, April 26, a day with steady rain, the Belmont Citizens Forum (BCF), in conjunction with the Judy Record Conservation Fund, held its 11th annual Lone Tree Hill Volunteer Day.
The volunteers included Girl Scout Daisy Troop 63278, Cityside Subaru employees, volunteers from Habitat, and citizens from Belmont and the surrounding communities. Many hands made light work. At the Meadow Edge Trail, volunteers removed garlic mustard and planted 50 white pine saplings, 10 eastern red cedar saplings and also replaced five white pine trees that did not survive the planting from last year. Volunteers also transplanted seven white pine saplings from the end of the Pine Allee to replace either dead or missing trees along the Pine Allee. At the other end of the property, the volunteers collected 10 bags of garlic mustard and trash that included four chairs and a table.
Thank You to our Corporate Sponsors
Platinum Level Sponsors: Cityside Subaru and Northland Residential
Gold Level Sponsors: Anne Mahon Realty, Belmont Land Trust, Rockland Trust Bank, and
Watertown Savings Bank
Silver Level Sponsors: Amy Kirsch Leading Edge, Artefact Home and Garden, Cambridge Savings Bank, Juliet Jenkins Leading Edge, and Renaissance Realty
Community Cosponsors: Belmont Conservation Volunteers, Belmont Helps, Clean Green Belmont, Land Management Committee for Lone Tree Hill, Mass Audubon Habitat Sanctuary, Sustainable Belmont
BCF is grateful to David Ropes of Tree Specialists, Inc., and his amazing crew for not only supervising the planting but also helping with the tree planting, and the Judy Record Conservation Fund for funding their ongoing work, purchasing the trees, and funding the forestry mowing of the Meadow Edge Trail by Parterre to prepare the site for the plantings. A big shout-out goes to Joe Hibbard for suggesting this white pine and eastern red cedar planting project and for marking the planting locations ahead of the volunteer day; to Nancy Kougeas for supervising of the pulling of garlic mustard near the Meadow Edge Trail; to Leonard Katz (Belmont Conservation Volunteers) for supervising the removal of the invasive Akebia (chocolate vine); to Vincent Stanton, Jr. for supervising the Cityside Subaru volunteers picking up trash and removing invasives; to Dean Hickman for supervising volunteers picking up trash and removing garlic mustard; to Anna-Marie Lambert for signing in volunteers at the bottom of Coal Road; to Hannah Fletcher of Habitat for sharing some of the Habitat volunteers to help with the tree planting, garlic mustard removal, and for lending us some gardening tools; and to Jay Marcotte and Scott Mosca, DPW Highway Division, and their staff, for picking up the trash. It took a village to have a successful volunteer day especially on a day with constant rain.
Photos below by Jeffrey North, except where noted.
Photo by Anne-Marie Lambert
Radha Iyengar is treasurer of Belmont Citizens Forum and organizer of the BCF Volunteer Day.
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