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Berkshire Edge The Housatonic Stream Restoration for Regional Flood Resilience Project spans the City of Pittsfield and the Towns of Lenox, Stockbridge, and New Marlborough. A recent grant will allow the communities to complete road-stream crossing assessment for all their bridges and culverts. LENOX — If you see a crew of young Berkshire youth studying […]

NewsTimes When we look at the woods, we think of them as something that’s always been there and always will be. But always is always the opposite — the woods are always changing. Trees die and new ones — not always the same ones — grow back. In the 18th and 19th century, the colonials […]

Photo credit: Steep Rock Association HVA recently joined several organizations, local land trusts, community members, and State Representatives Maria Horn and Cindy Harrison for a “Conservation Conversation” held in Washington, Connecticut. Co-hosted by Steep Rock Association (Steep Rock), Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative (Greenprint), Connecticut Farmland Trust (CFT), and Connecticut Land Conservation Council (CLCC), the event […]

Berkshire Eagle   To the editor: This past Saturday, I joined a group of determined local folks to remove trash from the west branch of the Housatonic River in Pittsfield. This well-organized effort was spearheaded by two leaders: Jane Winn of the Berkshire Environmental Action Team and Alison Dixon of the Housatonic Valley Association. There […]

REGISTER CITIZEN GOSHEN — United States Senator Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, is holding a Highlands Reauthorization Roundtable in Goshen June 28. The meeting will be held at 12:30 p.m. at 65 Beach Hill Road, at the site of the state’s largest and most recent conservation project to leverage funding from the federal Highlands Conservation Act, according […]