2019 Eco-Film Series Line-up
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![2019 Eco-Film Series Line-up Inconvenient Sequel Truth to power, film logo "Fight like your world depends on it"](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/InconvenientSequel-150x150.jpg)
2019 Eco-Film Series: Check out the selections …
Read More »Changing Forest Study at West Meadow
![Changing Forest Study at West Meadow 2 High school students hang up trail blaze signs in winter at West Meadow](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_3986-150x150.jpg)
This fall, Lowell High students set up a forest plot in West Meadow as part of the Harvard Forest Changing Forest Study. This…
Read More »Concord River Greenway – Final Approval for Next Sections
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![Concord River Greenway – Final Approval for Next Sections Concord River Aerial Map](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Figure-2-Aerial-CRG-150x150.jpg)
The City of Lowell’s Conservation Commission approved the Concord River Greenway’s final stages of construction at its November 2018 meeting, allowing the city…
Read More »Youth Speak at Annual Meeting
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![Youth Speak at Annual Meeting Teenage girl stands at podium with adult staff and uses microphone](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_20181113_201807247-150x150.jpg)
This year’s Annual Meeting (November 13, 2018) focused on climate change. Alexandra Vecchio, Climate Change Program Coordinator with Mass Audubon was our guest…
Read More »Spalding House Second Sundays
![Spalding House Second Sundays Historic mustard yellow house, dark green shutters, white door with a holiday wreath and red bow hanging to the side of the door](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Spalding-wreath-150x150.jpg)
Stop by for a visit and enjoy a cookie & warm beverage as we celebrate the opening of the house during this holiday season.
Read More »2018 Annual Meeting – Demystifying the Changing Climate
![2018 Annual Meeting – Demystifying the Changing Climate 3 buildings behind fog and tree line](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/boston-in-the-fog-150x150.jpg)
Climate change is about you, your family’s health, and your children’s future but what does climate change look like on a local scale? …
Read More »Land Science in Lowell
![Land Science in Lowell 4 teens and one adult woman smile with trees behind, Girls Inc with Staff Emily](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Girls-Inc-at-HVF-e1568310895536-150x150.jpg)
Girls Incorporated of Lowell CITs ( Counselors in Training) explored Hawk Valley Farm, taking in the sights and sounds of this green oasis…
Read More »Local Youth Host Environmental Youth Conference
![Local Youth Host Environmental Youth Conference group of teens in cafeteria doorway holding a sign that says "welcome"](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/EYC-2018-group-150x150.jpg)
Lowell High School TREES & Environmental Adventure students have been hard at work throughout this school year as the organizers and planners of…
Read More »Eco-Mobile Rollout
![Eco-Mobile Rollout small model ambulance with "Eco Mobile, photos of youth and rafting" table decoration. Flowers on top of truck](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DSC_0007-150x150.jpg)
Help us get mobile… out and about the city …
Read More »Cummings Foundation Grant
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We are pleased to be the recipient of a $100K for 100 grant from the Cummings Foundation. This Foundation knows how to walk the talk of philanthropy! More …
Read More »A Rain Garden For All!
![A Rain Garden For All! teen girl paints a "rain garden" sign outdoors](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/amina-rain-garden-150x150.jpg)
For their student-designed service learning project, ninth graders in our COMPASS Program, developed a rain garden to reduce stormwater runoff in the alleyway next…
Read More »NH Chronicle Features Concord River Whitewater Rafting
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![NH Chronicle Features Concord River Whitewater Rafting NH Chronicle webpage event, screen displaying May 2, Urban White water rafting](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/NH-Chronicle-e1526999873762-150x150.jpg)
Local youth raft the Concord and get featured on NH Chronicle…
Read More »A Discussion of The Boatman : Henry David Thoreau’s River Years
![A Discussion of The Boatman : Henry David Thoreau’s River Years Robert M. Thorson The Boatman - Henry David Thoreau's River Years - book cover of greys, browns, and bare branches](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/the-boatman-150x150.jpg)
During his short life, Thoreau’s opinions on the Talbot Mills Dam in North Billerica, and the Middlesex Canal through Lowell, changed back and forth several times. During his “River Years,”…
Read More »Eco-Film Series Celebrates Six Years of Inspiring Films
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![Eco-Film Series Celebrates Six Years of Inspiring Films 2018 Eco film series on top of a film strip graphic with movie posters, "Addicted to sheep", Citizen Jane", A Plastic Ocean, "Wasted"; old film camera graphic in black below](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/website-eco-film-series-pic-e1515610285464-150x132.jpg)
Mark your calendars for the last Tuesday of the month, January – June! Our Eco-Film Series is right around the corner! We are…
Read More »Lowell Open Space Plan Kickoff Meeting
![Lowell Open Space Plan Kickoff Meeting "Lowell Open Space Plan Kickoff Meeting" poster with children playing in waterpark sprinklers](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/lowell-open-mspace-meeting-jan-24-2018-150x150.png)
The City of Lowell is starting the public planning process for the 2018 Open Space and Recreation Plan…
Read More »Maple Sugaring
![Maple Sugaring maple sugaring](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/DSC_1630-e1484156094409-150x150.jpg)
Learn how to create delicious sugaring products in your own backyard…
Read More »Wildlife Tracking at Hawk Valley Farm
![Wildlife Tracking at Hawk Valley Farm a man and child crouch on the snow examining an animal track, the man is pointing to the track adn the young girl is holding an ID brochure](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/winter-tracking-150x150.jpg)
Whose tracks are these..
Read More »Self- Guided Winter Birding at Hawk Valley Farm
![Self- Guided Winter Birding at Hawk Valley Farm a red capped bird with black and white feathers perches vertically on a pine tree](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/DSC_0741-150x150.jpg)
Despite the cold, winter can be an amazing time to go birding…
Read More »Restoring the Past
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![Restoring the Past A mustard yellow house with dark green shutters and a white door, a wooden pole holds a white sign that reads 1760 Spaulding House M. Davis." In the center of the sign is a fish and a river bank](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Front-of-Spalding-House-w.-Moses-Sign-150x150.jpg)
The Methuen Festival of Trees (FOT) powers historic preservation projects all year throughout the Merrimack Valley. We’re grateful that this year, funds from this locally-renowned…
Read More »Constellation at West Meadow
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![Constellation at West Meadow six people stand on a outdoor wooden stair case, pine trees behind them, dirt and snow on ground, they are in winter clothing](https://lowelllandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IMG_20171213_120350670-150x150.jpg)
Volunteers from Constellation improved access to our West Meadow conservation property…
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