This page will have an assortment of announcements and links concerning events of interest. Some of the region's finest nature writers along with a group of community activists will share their thoughts and experiences on landscapes close to home and the forces that change them.
Space is limited.
So much of our natural landscape has been shaped and reshaped by human civilization. Speaking from her book, Reflections in Bullough's Pond, Economy and Ecosystem in New England, Ms. Muir weighs our imprint on the landscape as hunters and gatherers, as farmers and as industrialists. At the time Thoreau inhabited a self-built cabin in the pristine Walden Woods, deforestation was at its peak. Today, fields and pastures abandoned by farmers have grown over into forests, leaving toppled stone walls and root cellars as reminders of our agricultural history. An urban historian and Meyerhoff Professor of Environmental Studies Emeritus at Brandeis University, Sam Bass Warner has documented the success of these gardens in his book, To Dwell is to Garden, A History of Boston's Community Gardens.