Green Futures

ACTION ALERT - Respect your elders

Living fossils, our local horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, have been around in their present form for at least 200,000,000 years.

Upstart humans, Homo sapiens, have been around in our present form for perhaps 300,000 years.

Right here, right now horseshoe crabs are in danger due to over harvesting for their blood used in medical device testing, for bait used in eel pots and conch traps, killed for predator control on clam flats and populations, in some areas, suffering effects of continuing pollution and impacted by climate change.

Go here to learn about Horseshoe Crab Bill (H 898) to help protect this amazing prehistoric critter. There will be a hearing on Horseshoe Crab Bill (H 898) on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 1:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. State House Hearing Room A-1, 24 Beacon St., Boston, MA, 02133

Get Crabby! For more info go here - https://www.facebook.com/Horseshoecrabadvocates/

Horseshoe Crab Advocates SE Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance building partnerships to conserve our Coastal Pine Barrens.

ACTIVITY ALERT - Walking in Beauty!

This past Saturday we walked the Copicut forest, within the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve, looking for autumn, We found it. Not peak color yet, maybe by this coming weekend if the predicted nor'easter doesn't intervene and blow the leaves off the trees.

ACTIVITY ALERT - ANNUAL TURTLE WALK this Saturday, June 7, 8:00 A.M. is CANCELLED!

We've just been informed that a large part of the area we were going to walk to observe turtle nesting is currently closed to the public due to a restoration project underway by Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife.

ACTIVITY ALERT - An early spring walk in the forest to Hoot and Howl by the light of the Full Worm Moon.

Meteorological spring arrived on March 1st. Astronomical spring arrives March 20th.

March 15 , Saturday night, 8 p.m. Meet at Blossom Road and Corduroy Trail, Fall River, MA

Directions to trailhead:

Park along the side of Blossom Road at Corduroy Trail, someone will be there to direct you. Blossom Road at Corduroy Trail is approximately 400' north of Fall River Water Department's Watuppa Reservation Headquarters at 2929 Blossom Road.

Due to the extremely poor road conditions north of our meeting location make sure you approach our 2929 Blossom Road meeting location from the Westport, south end, of Blossom Road.

Length of walk approximately 2 miles. We walk by the light of the moon, but bring a flashlight should mischievous clouds hide the moon from view. Wear appropriate shoes/boots for hiking rough woodland paths and trails.

Water and snack always a good idea. Rain cancels walk.

NOTE: Watch for notifications of future specific walks.
State environmental agencies and the private land trust that cooperatively hold land and are responsible for managing the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve (SMB) have ignored their promises made when the SMB was created. Consequently the biodiversity that they promised to protect, nurture and enhance has actually declined since the bioreserve's creation. Some species of native flora and fauna completely extirpated. How sad. What a shame.

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ACTIVITY ALERT - Autumn in our neck of the woods

This past Saturday's walk in beauty and a few photos too.

One couldn't have asked for a better morning for a walk through the fall woods than the morning that greeted us this past Saturday. The weather was bright and sunny and the air cool and crisp enough to keep end of the season mosquitos grounded.
Leaf color was just getting good with lots of yellow birch and black birch leaves letting go of their individual trees and silently wind surfing to the forest floor. Red-leaved tupelo were reflected in local ponds and red maple and sassafras were showing off their bright colors too.

The autumn spectacle should be good for another week or so until rain and wind come along and force the remaining deciduous leaves to the ground.
Take a walk in the woods and see how many different tree species you can identify from the colorful leaves you kick up as you walk along.

Autumn wildflowers are blooming and fall mushrooms are up, looking for attention.


October's Party by George Cooper

October gave a party,
The leaves by the hundreds came.
Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.

The Chestnuts came in yellow,
The Oaks in crimson dressed.
The lovely Misses Maple
In scarlet looked their best.
All balanced to their partners,
And gaily fluttered by.
The sight was like a rainbow
New fallen from the sky.

Then, in the rustic hollow,
At hide-and-seek they played,
The party closed at sundown,
And everybody stayed.
Professor Wind played louder,
They flew along the ground,
And then the party ended
In jolly hands around.