RESOURCES REPORT
BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL
VOLUME 13 FALL 2005 NO. 1

Become a BNRC steward
BNRC presently owns nearly 6,500 acres of land in Berkshire County. We need people with cameras, chainsaws and binoculars. Help us plan and maintain our trails, learn which animals are using the land, and spread the word about the importance of land conservation.

 

CONSTITUTION HILL
STEVENS GLEN
WILLIAM T. DAY FOREST
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Alice Spatz
Cindy Puccio
Bernie Drew

Alice Spatz, who stewards Constitution Hill with Bill Girard, is a professional musician with an MFA in music composition from Bennington College. Alice has been a long-time volunteer for the Berkshire Music School and for various peace organizations. Most recently, she has chaired the Lanesborough Tree and Forest Committee and now brings her interest in forest and conservation issues to her care of Constitution Hill.

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Bill Girard

Bill Girard is a professional logger with 34 years of experience running an integrated logging operation that performs residential seasonal tree work. He also operates a sawmill producing native lumber for garages and barns, hardwood for furniture, and cabinet stock. He is currently the town of Lanesborough Tree Warden, a position that makes him the best in the area to help BNRC assess and plan for good forest stewardship at Constitution Hill.

Cindy Puccio lives in Spencertown, New York and is an active supporter of the arts both here and in New York City, where she worked as an English teacher and College Advisor. She is on the Board of Tannery Pond, has served as a Master Gardener for Columbia County Cooperative Extension, and after living in Rome for a number of years, has hiked and traveled throughout Europe, Nepal, Africa and the Galapagos. Now, with clippers in hand she can often be found in Stevens Glen.

Bernie Drew grew up on the property that is now Notchview Reservation in Windsor. A writer and historian of eminence in South Berkshire, he is on the board of the Great Barrington Historical Society and contributes regularly to the Our Berkshires column in The Berkshire Eagle. Bernie recently led a well-attended hike in the William Taylor Day Forest in Great Barrington, once the site of the town's fever house.




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