Beaver Brook Land Purchase

Projects

The City of Northampton, Massachusetts currently seeks to purchase 44.7 acres of land in Leeds located north of Beaver Brook between Haydenville Road and the Leeds bike path. The acquisition will expand the current Beaver Brook conservation area and connect the Mill River Greenway to the Beaver Brook/Broad Brook Greenway and Broad Brook/Fitzgerald Lake Greenway.

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Documenting Wildlife at FLCA

Projects,

A research project using cameras to document wildlife at the Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area earned its author, Virginia Sowers, second place in Best in Show at the University of Massachusetts Annual Geographic Information Systems Poster Conference. The UMass senior in the Department of Environmental Conservation wanted to gauge the influence of human visitors on wildlife

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