(This letter first appeared in the Berkshire Eagle on 4/20/2026) To the editor: We can stand in a grocery checkout next to apparently ordinary people who have contributed heroically to human knowledge. For example: William Moomaw, Tufts University emeritus professor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, prompts us to think more deeply about "proforestation." We can all, likewise, walk down our Bellows Pipe trail and not grasp the outsized role of the Notch Forest in making our Berkshire lives...

Right now, the city of North Adams has the best opportunity to permanently protect the Notch Reservoir and the Williams Reservoir forested areas for this and future generations.

In December 2024, Save Notch Forest, along with thousands of others, helped persuade