MIDDLEBURY Middlebury Area Land Trust Executive Director Jamie Brookside is more likely to be found on cloud nine these days than on any of her organization’s 4,700 acres of conserved lands.
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BENNINGTON â The townâs designation as the 49th Appalachian Trail Community along the 2,193.1-mile hiking trail became official Thursday evening during an online ceremony.
Keynote speaker U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., congratulated the local committee that worked since the fall of 2019 with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, which oversees the trail community program; representatives from the Green Mountain Club, which maintains the trail and Vermontâs Long Trail; the National Park Service, the Green Mountain National Forest, local officials and others to secure the designation.
âAll of you have been A.T. champions,â Welch said.
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I think the automatic response people have is, This is devastation, this is apocalypse, Henry Art said. Yet, it s not. It s part of what that system is adapted to do. For me, it s part of nature. I think it s entirely appropriate to make fire lines around Mass Avenue where the fire could really do some harm. But deep in the woods of East Mountain and Pine Cobble, where firefighters battled a wildland fire for four days this month, fire can be restorative to the ecosystem and beneficial to a particular species of pine tree. Art, an emeritus professor of biology and environmental studies and a longtime member of the Williamstown Conservation Commission, was not criticizing the efforts of those firefighters and was as thankful as anyone for their efforts to keep the fire from encroaching on inhabited areas, like Massachusetts Avenue in North Adams.