HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-07-14 Town Forest Committee Minutes Town of Reading RECEIVED
Meeting Minutes TOWN CLERK 3
READING MA.
Board - Committee - Commission - CouncIP211 SEP 17 AM 9: 02
Town Forest Committee
Date: 2020-07-14 Time: 7 PM
Building: Location:
Address:
Purpose: Town Forest Management Session:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Thomas Gardiner, Nancy Docktor, Kurt Habel, Dan Ford, Brian Scouten, Jeff
Lanson, Bill Sullivan
Members - Not Present:
Rick Wetzler
Others Present:
Jane Kinsella, Reading DPW; Bob Holmes, Chronicle
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Bill Sullivan
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting was held by video conference due to the COVID pandemic.
• Doth Anniversary Celebration
o Request submitted to DCR for funding - $500 approved
Reading Celebration Committee will contribute $1,515
• Kurt prepared a video on how to pull buckthorn
• J. Kinsella will upload to Town's webpage
• Try an annual buckthorn pull in Reading?
• Sign-up through TFC, not the Town
• Meet at Council Ring and disperse around the TF to pull buckthorn
o Lecturers have been lined up from Mass Audubon, forester Phil Benjamin,
and bird/animal speakers
o Nancy to draft description of activities for website
o Need volunteers to direct people, provide information and distribute masks
o May need to hold all activities outside due to COVID
o Board of Health will require a COVID Plan
• Concern raised about pine scale on the pine trees in the TF
• Voted unanimously to approve the minutes of the 6/16/20 meeting
• Next Meeting: scheduled for August 18, 2020 at 7:00 pm
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