HomeMy WebLinkAbout1970-11-24 Town Forest Committee Minutes 46
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The future control of snowmobiles, mini-bikes and trail
bikes in the Town Forest was considered. Chairman Perry
has discussed this with Massachusetts Registry Inspector
Carl Wood for his thoughts .
Mark Stockwell, Boy Scout of Troop 702 Reading, has made
and installed Wood Duck house in, or near, the Ipswich
River. This is a fine conservation project,
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 PM.
June 15, 1990 and June 22, 1970
A Speo#A1 Town Meeting, which ran two nights, discussed
and voted Article No. 15 giving the Tarn a Flood Plain
Zoning Law. Three 'minor amendments were added.
The area surrounding the north and northeast side of
Scrub Oak Hill now carry the restriction of a ..:oontonr line
at seventy-five (75) feet below which no building may be
constructed,. This new zoning law helps protect the present
Town Forest from. construetion which might damage the
water shed.
Other areas covered by the new law include : Cedar Swamp,
Bear Meadow and the headwaters of the Abarjona River,
August 9, 1970 _
Michael Ormsby, Boy Scout of Troop 702 Reading,and
Benjamin Nichols cleared brush which had been crowding the
saplings planted by other Boy Spouts on May 14, 1966
and October 12 , 1963 on the westerly side of the Ordway Pit .
August 24, 1970
Chairman James S . Perry and B. E. Nichols met with the
Selectmen and Town Counsel, James %illam III, stating plans
of the Town Forest Committee to close the Forest to prevent
potential fires and physioal harm to persons . Recently
there have ..been groups which appear undesirable having
campfires , leaving their refuse and refreshment pans and
bottles in the Forest . There is also the weekly cost to the
Town to pay for the removal of this refuse.
Ohuirmun Perry will ask duet . itoger louenia of the Board of
Public dorks if his men will put large stones. in the road at
Point Otte , and Chairman Perry will arrange to install a chain,
or cable, barrierbetween two poste which are already in the
ground at the easterly end of the causeway.
November 24 , 1970 7:30 PM
A formal posted meeting was held in the Town Building.
bembers Present : James S. -terry, Chairman
Benjamin E . Richols, Secretary
Irving E . Dickey
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The balance of the 1970 account is 11,017.30 as of now.
The Finance Committee included the budget of the Town
Forest Committee for 1970 with the Forest Department
Expenses. In previous years the budget of the Town Forest
Committee has been kept in its own name , and we will request
that it be kept the same way for 1971.
It was voted that Irving Dickey will purchase the material
to make seven picnic tables, and the men of the Tree Dept .
will manufacture them during the winter. These will be
distributed in the Town Forest for the use of picnic groups ,
in the following locations :
1 at the Old Council Ring
3 at the Campfire Girls Council Ring
2 at point One parking lot .
1 at the Grove where road from Point One
joins the main wood road .
The Tree Department will collect logs which cLn be used
for seats around the Campfire Girls Council Ring. Mr . Dickey
will bring these to the area when the leaders request them.
It was voted to hire men to handle the usual Christmas Tree
,latch from December 12th through December 24th to protect
the Forest from theft anc vandalism.
4he Budget for 1971 was considered , and was set at ."2 ,000.00.
Campfire Firl Leaders came to this meeting at 8 :00 PEI
to discuss the problems involved with the use of the new
Council Ring in the Nichols 'Woodlot Area. Leadeas present
included:
Mrs.. Robert (Leslie) Fuller
Mrs. i7illiam (Virginia) H. Bridge ,Jr.
Mrs. Gerald (Carol) Publicover
Problems considered included:
Three picnic tables will be installed in the spring.
Camp fires as previously used are illegal , but
Fire Chief Perry ruled that a Small cooking fire '..
will be legal.
parking of cars for annual gathering for awards night
would more than fill Fox Run Lane . Perhaps the "apple
orchard" in the potential school site may be used .
At the present , the.e are about fifty Campfire Girl
unite in heading. The leaders would like to have each
unit plant one tree around the perimeter of the
Council Ring.
Rules and regulations for the use of their area will
be written similar to those of the Boy Scouts .
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The leaders asked if the girls could have permission
to take mase, or other growing plants , from the Forest .
The laws of Massachusetts were discussed as appearing
in the General Laws Chapter 266, Sections 113 and 118A.
Copies of the General Laws, were given to the leaders
present for their guidance .
The meeting was adjourned at 9 :25 PM.
December 31, 1970
David V. Galvin, 20 Fairmount Road , Reading reports the
following eighty birds were seen in the Reading Two Forest
during the year 1970.
1. rallard :ruby-crowned ringlet
Black Duck Starling
Green-winged Teal Solitary Vireo
'Mood Duck Red-eyed Vireo
5. Broad-winged Hawk 45. ',garbling Vireo
Sparrow Hawk Black and White ':Varbler
Ruffed Grouse Golden-winged Warbler
Ring-necked Pheasant Nashville Plarbler
Killdeer Parula Warbler
10.3potted Sandpiper 50. Yellow Warbler
Greater Yellowlegs Magnolia di roler
Herring Gull Myrtle Warbler
Tiourning Dove Black-thr. Green Warbler
Chimney Swift Chestnut-aided Warbler
15.Yellow-shafted Flicker 55. Blackpoll -;7arbler
Yellow-bel. Sapsucker Prairie Warbler
Hairy Woodpecker Palm Warbler
D01,11my Woodpecker Ovenbird
Eastern Kingbird Yellowthroat
20.Eastern. Phoebe 60. American Redstart
Least Flycatcher House Sparrow
Eastern Wood Pewee Redwinged Blackbird
Tree Swallow Baltimore Oriole
Bank Swallow Common Grackle
25 .3arn Swallow 65. Brown-headed Cowbird
Blue Jay Scarlet Tanager
Common Crow Rose-breasted Grosbeak
i3lack-cappea Chickadee Purple Finch
White-br. Nuthatch Common Redpoll
30.Red-br . Nuthatch 70. Pine Siskin
Brown Creeper American Goldfinch
F.ouse S%ren Rufous-sided Towhee
Catbird Savannah Sparrow
Brown Thrasher Slate-colored Junco
35 .2.obin 75 . Tree Sparrow
'7ood Thrush Chipping Sparrow
Hermit Thrush White-throated Sparrow
Swainson 's Thrush Fox Sparrow
Veery Swamp Sparrow
40.Golden-crowned Kinglet 80 . Song Sparrow