HomeMy WebLinkAbout1968-07-29 Town Forest Committee Minutes 26
May 18, 1968
David Galvin , 20 Fairmount Road , Reading has drawn an
excellent map of the Reading Town Fordst . This shows the
Forest and Water Shed as it exists after the purchase of
land voted at the Adjourned Annual Town Meeting on
March 23, 1968 . This map is filed in this log book in
two parte on pages 26-A and 26-B.
David Galvin developed this map from aerial photographs
taken by New England Survey Service,Inc. , 566 Atlantic Ave.,
Boston, Mass. on November 13, 1966, and from "Area Map of
Lands Situated in the Hundred Acre Meadow-Great Island-
Dividence Swamp & Meadow, Reading, Mass. Compiled by
Town of Reading-Board of Public Works-Engineering Division
for Town Forest and Water Supply Development
April, 1966 Seale: 1 in.= 200 ft., in addition to personal
observations mace in the Forest . the detail is interesting
and accurate.
David Galvin is a young man who is most interested in
ornithology, and writes a column in the Reading Chronicle
for bird watchers.
This map is valuable to the Town Forest Committee at the
present time, and will be of great historical value in
the future.
July 29 , 1968 7 :30 PM Room 1, Municipal Building
The formal posted meeting was called to order by
Chairman James S. Perry.
Members present included :
James 6. Perry, Chairman
Benjamin E . Nichols , Secretary
Maurice H. Donegan
James S. Perry was nominated and elected Chairman for
the ensuing year. Benjamin E. Nichols was nominated and
elected Secretary.
Chairman Perry will ask State Forester Estee to make
recommendations to further benefit our Town Forest .
Chairman Perry will talk with Mr. 19ing of the real estate
company which is developing land on Franklin Street
regarding a right of way through their land to the Town
Forest, which might be formally recorded. Chairman Perry
will also get their reaction regarding tis possibility of
selling some low land which nae two small ponds . Tnie is
the headwater of running water which runs through the
Cranberry Dam on its way to the Ipswich River, through a
potential water well field area.
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July 29, 1968 (continued)
Chairman Perry will talk to H. K. Abbott regarding the
drawing of a new tracing of the whole Town Forest and
surrounding area which will show : Lots, roads, tree
plantings , and the line of high and low lands .
The minutes of the previous formal meetings of January 22, 1966 '.
and March 27 , 1966 were read and ep proved.
It was voted to have Chairman Perry make arrangements to remorse
the automobile , which had become mired and later thoroughly
damaged , from the Forest .
The men working in the sorest will cut into shorter lengths
some of tks trees which have previously been felled, and left
where they were cut. The logs will now be in sizes which the
Boy Scouts can remove from the woods to the side of roads.
This will b e Service and Conservationprojects for the
Boy Scoots .
Another suggested Service Project for prospective Eagle
Boy Scouts would be to spread wool chips around the small
saplings which have been planted in the Ordway Pit Area.
These wood chips have been brought to this area by
Maurice H. Donegan , who is Tree Warden, as well as a
member of the Town Forest Committee.
Benjamin E. Nichols moved , Chairman Perry seconded. and it
was voted:
The area now known as the Bancroft Island , and
which was formerly known as Dividens Island,
shall be kept forever as a wilderness area,
the way it now is , in keeping with the wishes
oi' the dancroit family as explained at the
Town Meeting on April 15 , 1967 . Their wishes
are recorded in the Log Book of the Town Forest
Committee on Page"15 in the fourth paragraph, aid
also on Page 21 under date of January 1, 1968."
Benjamin E. Nichols moved, andit was voted, to install a
cable between the posts at the entrance to the Sou;b Oak
Hill Area.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 PM.
July 31 , 1968
Refer to this log book unc:er dates of Larch 27 , 1968
and 1Laroh 30 , 1968.
The first planting of the red pixie saplings in the southern
portion of the Ordway Pit Area was started on April 27 , 1968
and was completed on -'lay 12, 1968. Two thousand saplings
were planted .
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