It's a banner year for bluebirds. SVT's volunteer bird box monitors are sending in their year-end reports, and they have seen dozens of bluebird fledglings!

SVT maintains 58 bird boxes across 11 properties to encourage bluebirds, as well as tree swallows and house wrens, to nest and lay eggs. Our

In this fall's elections, the residents of Framingham and Shrewsbury will have a chance to approve the Community Preservation Act (CPA) and set aside money for various local projects, including open space projects.

When a community approves CPA, a small surcharge is added to municipal property taxes

The Metrowest Conservation Alliance (MCA) has produced a Forest Health Toolkit to help conservation commissions and local land trusts assess the health of their wooded properties and make decisions about land management. Although designed primarily for volunteers who care for public lands, the

Conservationists around the country celebrated when the Great American Outdoors Act was signed into law by the President last week. This act provides full and permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) that underwrites grants for conservation projects at the federal, state

On Thursday, August 7, 2020, SVT's Lisa Vernegaard and OARS' Alison Field-Juma were featured on the 5:30 p.m. news broadcast on WCVB-TV.

Reporter Josh Brogadir interviewed the two Executive Directors about the filamentous green algae that is spreading through local waterways. SVT and OARS both work

The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) has learned that several Massachusetts residents have received unsolicited packages of seeds in the mail. The packages appear to have originated in a foreign country.

The exact types of seeds are unknown, but they are thought to be

UMass Extension needs your help. The Extension has been hearing from people who perceive a decline in the state's butterfly population, but it does not have enough data to either verify or refute that perception. To collect the data, the Extension is asking state residents to take a survey that asks

The Town of Berlin and SVT have opened a public hiking trail at the town’s Peach Hill Conservation Area on Lancaster Road. The new Mountain Laurel Trail runs through the Peach Hill land for about a mile before connecting with trails on the Town of Bolton’s Fyfeshire Conservation Area.

“Volunteers

In another win for conservation, the Town of Upton and the Massaschusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation now co-hold a conservation restriction (CR) on the 48-acre Robertson Property on Fowler Street. The agreement closed earlier this month.

The property, which spans wooded uplands

SVT is taking pre-emptive steps to save the threatened wild lupine at our Memorial Forest Reservation in Sudbury. This native plant, which blooms in shades of blue and white, is uncommon in our local woods, yet it provides good food for pollinators and birds. 

Wild lupine is one of the species that