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2025 Early Spring Work at River Walk!
April 2, 2025
This spring River Walk engaged a industrious and knowledgeable crew of Greenagers to help with a number of early spring projects. Our long-term horticulturalist Heather Cupo helped to guide our work and included educational lessons as we moved along the trail.
It was great to learn together and get so much early work done!
- Christine Ward, River Walk project director
Help Control Geese Damage at Lake Mansfield - Do not tamper with geese deterrents!
Please support our Parks and Public Works Department in efforts to discourage Canada Geese at Lake Mansfield. In July last year we needed to close the lake due to water quality issues directly related to geese.
This year the town is trying preemptive measures to keep the beach area and lake water clean and open for recreation. Deterrents will be installed soon. These deterrents include lights that discourage geese from sleeping and nesting at the lake, stationary deterrents in the beach area, and an occasional wildlife control noise maker designed to move geese out of the beach and surrounding area. Note: These deterrents do not harm geese
River Beavers at River Walk
In 2024 River Walk and its riverside neighbors experienced an unprecedented impact from beavers. We’ve seen beaver damage on vegetation before, but never on this scale. Many trail visitors expressed surprise and dismay as beavers took trees and saplings from the riverbank, crossed the trail to cut down a red maple in its full autumnal glory, and then went on to consume the fresh saplings used to rebuild the wattle fence around the Bridge Street oak tree.
Pfeiffer Arboretum gets new bog boards!
Through the generosity of our donors, GBLC was fortunate enough to once again hire the team from Greenagers to replace the 184 lineal feet of bog boards that lead down to the observatory overlooking Long Pond.