SouthCoast Volunteers Remove Trash, Plant Trees at Area Reserves
Mother Nature doesn t get just one day of celebration; She gets seven! In honor of Earth Week, dozens of volunteers got active with the Buzzards Bay Coalition on Saturday, helping clean up the SouthCoast and make it a better place to live.
Photo Courtesy of Buzzards Bay Coalition
40 volunteers showed up on what turned out to be a beautiful spring day. The group split up to cover The Bogs and the New Boston Trail on the Mattapoisett River Reserve, The Sawmill on the Acushnet River Reserve and Horseshoe Mill in Wareham. Once at their cleanup locations, volunteers removed a total of more than 30 bags of garbage, including four TVs and five tires.
Editor s note: Seth Chitwood is The Standard-Times new special projects reporter, and he s trying to learn his way around the SouthCoast.
Two weeks ago, I set out to explore a few fun places to walk in greater Dartmouth. I had been asked to check out a place called The Acushnet Sawmill and when I was in the area, I saw Acushnet Sawmill Wildlife Management and assumed this was the same place boy, was I wrong.
I was hit with “You went to the wrong place!” e-mails from a few of you including an e-mail from the communications director of the Buzzards Bay Coalition, Michael Graca. In an effort to redeem myself, this week I headed to the correct Sawmill.