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July 2025 - We're meeting with the Mayor!
Our Save Notch Forest group has a meeting scheduled with the Mayor of North Adams for July 9th. This is our chance to show her what we...
devinqraber
5 days ago1 min read
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Drought
It's not uncommon to see drastic weather patterns in your weather app, or reported like this recent iBerkshires article, Berkshire County...
devinqraber
Mar 172 min read
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Preservation of Notch Forest North Adams -- A Case Statement
by Walter Cudnohufsky 9.09.24 Proposed for use with land trusts and conservation organizations and city officials to solicit protection...
devinqraber
Dec 11, 20246 min read
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In the Words of a Forester
Opinion piece in the Greenfield Recorder by Bruce Spencer, retired Quabbin head forester. Wed 12/11/2024 MY TURN Are these the ‘King’s...
devinqraber
Dec 11, 20243 min read
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Letter: I Don't Like the Notch Reservoir Forestry Plan
To the editor: We have in our diverse, healthy, Notch Reservoir forest the best possible intact, resilient, tested and fully functional...
devinqraber
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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Letter to the Editor: North Adams Deserves Better
Have you heard about the proposed industrial-logging project at our forested public-drinking-water reservoir in North Adams? In the late...
devinqraber
Dec 10, 20241 min read
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Letter to the Editor: Drinking Water
12 .08.24 We have in our diverse, healthy, Notch Reservoir Forest; the best possible intact, resilient, tested, and fully functional...
devinqraber
Dec 8, 20242 min read
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Letter to the Editor: Save the Eagles
I'm writing in regards to the Save Notch Forest signs that I have seen. As a proud Masshole native from North Adams, that has...
devinqraber
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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Massachusetts Forest Watch
History of recent logging in Massachusetts. Photos are worth a thousand words. This is what is at risk. Savoy State Forest, “Shelterwood...
devinqraber
Dec 1, 20241 min read
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We Can't Log Our Way Out of Climate Change
​P lanting trees is a poor substitute for protecting existing forests when it comes to solving the climate crisis. " [W]e all support the...
devinqraber
Dec 1, 20241 min read
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Young Trees Don't Sequester More
By Robert T. Leverett - Cofounder, the Native Tree Society; The Sierra Club Guide to Ancient Forests of the Northeast Chair; MA...
devinqraber
Dec 1, 20241 min read
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Radio Show
What do you think about some questionable entity taking "an exquisite parcel of public land near Mount Greylock, beloved by residents and...
devinqraber
Dec 1, 20241 min read
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Letter to the Editor: Notch Road Beware
I am writing to express deep concern over the proposed logging project near Notch Reservoir and the Bellows Pipe Trailhead. This plan...
devinqraber
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Letter to the Editor: Timberspeak
To the editor: Like every other resident of North Adams, I was until very recently unaware of a sneaky logging plan for a patch of...
devinqraber
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Letter to the Editor: Stop the Notch Logging Project
To the Editor: As a lifelong resident of the Berkshires and current MCLA student, I have come to possess a great fondness for the nature...
devinqraber
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Letter to the Editor: An Avalanche of Concerns
To the editor: I am opposed to the logging plan around the Notch Reservoir. The area that is under consideration for logging, a wetland,...
devinqraber
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Letter to the Editor: A reply to Stevens' column on Notch Reservoir forestry plan
To the editor: My wife and I have been residents of North Adams for 20 years. We have walked Bellows Pipe Trail with our dogs more times...
devinqraber
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Letter to the Editor: Keep Notch Forest Wild
To the editor: Friends of the Notch Reservoir and Bellows Pipe Trail propose permanent, perpetual, irrevocable preservation of the...
devinqraber
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Case for a Forever Forest by Walt
by Walter Cudnohufsky 9.09.24 Proposed for use with land trusts and conservation organizations and city officials to solicit protection...
devinqraber
Nov 22, 20246 min read
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Letter to the Editor: Environmental Justice
To the editor: What does environmental justice mean? North Adams has been designated an environmental justice district. This designation...
devinqraber
Nov 20, 20242 min read
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