Inside/Out: JULY 31, WESTERN MASS. Recreation, Restoration + Community

96 East Street,Easthampton MA 01027

31 July, 2022

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Inside/Out continues!Join landscape architects and designers; clients, advocates, and activists; students and citizens for small group site tours of landscapes throughout our region. Prioritizing issues of climate and health, equity and resilience, each tour will discuss ideas and implementation as we explore these landscapes together. Click here watch a brief video about the whole series that's taking place in locations across Massachusetts and Maine.Join us outdoors! SUNDAY, JULY 31In EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS:1:30pm Mt. Tom North Trailhead Park This newly completed project includes a new parking area, trailhead, and accessible trail with connections to the New England Trail/Mt. Tom and a new hiking trail on Little Mountain. The park is located off of East Street in Easthampton, MA. The project was a collaboration between Easthampton, the Kestrel Land Trust and Pascommuck Conservation Trust. The design team included Dodson & Flinker and GZA Geoenvironmental. Led by Peter Flinker, FASLA, Dodson & Flinker Read the Mt. Tom Trailhead Park community driven design report by Dodson & Flinker Landscape Architects & Planners, and read about the "Trailhead, accessible trail taking shape on Mount Tom" from the Daily Hampshire Gazette. .In EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS:2:45pm Manhan Meadows, Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary Meet at 127 Combs Rd, EasthamptonFrom mass.gov: "The Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration partnered with MassAudubon to restore 15-acres of existing grassland (former agricultural field) to a high-terrace floodplain forest community. The Manhan Meadows Restoration Project, located within MassAudubon’s Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, will ultimately establish an increasingly rare natural community type in Massachusetts and in doing so, re-establish floodplain processes and succession, create habitat for several rare plant and animal species, and improve adjacent grassland habitat. This is the first project of its type for DER, and highlights the Division’s efforts to identify and pursue new restoration opportunities across the State. " Led by Tom Lautzenheiser, Floodplain Forest Project Manager, Mass Audubon Society Read more about unique and vital forest floodplain ecosystems and the first-of-its-kind Manhan Meadows Floodplain Forest Restoration Project at mass.gov, as well as "Keeping up with the culverts: State grants help towns repair vital drainage" from the Daily Hampshire Gazette.. In NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS:4:30pm Summer on Strong Meet at the corner of Strong Ave and Main Street/Route 9, Northamptonincluding Western Mass BSLA Summer Social! From northampton.live: "This recent project of Northampton, called Summer on Strong, is one of the many responses to the pandemic that the city has collaborated on to help encourage people to support our community while remaining safe and adhering to CDC guidelines. Surrounding restaurants of Strong Ave have joined forces to create a beautiful outdoor seating area, which features plenty of dining options and a live music schedule!" Led by Amy Cahillane, Executive Director of the Downtown Northampton Association Read more about Northampton Summer on Strong, and check out "Northampton adding Masonic Street Stage and summer shows to bolster outdoor dining and music scene" at masslive.com.. After the tours, please hang out with us at Summer on Strong! Friends and families, kids and grownups, students and seniors, members and non-members, all are welcome to all parts of this afternoon. Say hi to old friends and meet someone new. Join us outside! . Please join for one or all parts of this day. All are welcome. We look forward to seeing you outside.. Inside/Out is organized by the Boston Society of Landscape Architects in collaboration with the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and the landscape architecture program at Northeastern University, the Boston Architectural College School of Landscape Architecture, UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, and the Portland Society for Architecture. IMAGESat top: View from the top of Mt Tom Trailhead Park. Photo by Nate Burgess, ASLA.above, from top to bottom: View of Summer on Strong (Photo: Jeff Dawson, Affil ASLA). Familiars, Northampton (photos from northampton.live, credit Jackson Cote). Jeff Bagg, Cassie Tragert, and Dan Shaw at Mt. Tom, with Mt. Tom Trailhead Park plans. (Photos from gazettenet.com, credit Kevin Gutting). Floodplain restoration in Manhan Meadows, Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary. (Photos from massaudubon.org and mass.gov, Division of Ecological Restoration). Where else would you like to go? Let us know.Join us outside.