Every year right after Thanksgiving, the ornaments begin to appear on the small trees and larger ones too at intersection 4 in Ogilvie Town Forest. In ones and twos they arrive, and then finally a crate (this year a larger box) shows up. The holiday decorations (while defying a good photo in the three shown here) seemingly fly onto branches
Read moreUpdate December 14: Due to expected weather, this Stewardship Saturday has been postponed to a future date. For the last Stewardship Saturday of 2022 on Saturday, December 17 from 10 am to 12 pm, please join Weston Conservation Staff and WFTA volunteers on the desirable southside (farrrrrrrr southside) and get to know a property known as Cold Brook Stream, a
Read moreIf there is a place in Weston that inspires obsession, it is the ruins of the historic Merriam Barn (circa 1876). The Owl has written about it a number of times and can be found walking around it at least once a week. The vastness of the ruins, the gigantic ramp now to nowhere, and the ancient sugar maples standing
Read moreLet it be known (as if it isn’t already) that the Owl has always been biased towards the conservation efforts in this town. Full disclosure is that the Owl is in her second term as an executive board member with Weston Forest & Trail Association, the 501c3 which works with the Conservation Department to preserve and protect Weston’s open space
Read moreIf you were waiting with bated breath for what shenanigans the Owl was going to report on this morning, please know that the Owl is having an exceptionally bad weekend that has flowed quite literally into Monday. Yes, apparently some pipe or drain or something in Owl headquarters has simply given up, or perhaps, if I want to look at
Read moreJoin Weston Forest & Trail Association trustees this Sunday, October 2, at 2 PM for the first WFTA Sunday Walk of the new season, a 65-year tradition. The walk will start behind Lamson Park near the Town Green, hike through woods down to the Rail Trail, under Concord Road passing by the murals painted by high school students, and dip
Read moreFolks, the Owl is waaaaaaay behind on event listings, postings, charitable giving and everything else. So, this post is a hat trick of calendar mentions so that I can actually swan off to my other day job, also known as the WFTA. If you have sent a calendar list/event mention to the Owl more than a few days ago and
Read moreJoin the Weston Forest & Trail Association and Weston Conservation for this month’s Stewardship Saturday as they continue the Hundred Years War against Japanese knotweed in our fair town. After a spring attack on the knotweed infiltrators at Dickson Ring and Jericho Forest, the Conservation Department and WFTA are taking on a new phalanx at the Woodland central Weston location.
Read moreHappy Owl Awareness Day! A holiday celebrated by a small subset of the world, especially by those of us who really really like cake. Look it up–it really is a Hallmark holiday. And no, it’s not the Weston Owl Awareness Day which is when you send me random accolades and words of praise, also money. Today is about actual living
Read moreJoin Weston Conservation Staff and Weston Forest & Trail Association volunteers for Japanese Knotweed cutting at the Dickson Riding Ring at Jericho Town Forest on Saturday, June 11 from 10 am-12 pm. Not only will you get to pull out, cut, massacrate, stomp and generally annihilate this pretty and yet terrible invasive, but you will learn actually valuable things that you
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