Our spring newsletter is brimming with information about the power of working side-by-side to care for this treasured space and about our upcoming community programs.
INSIDE:
Improvements
Parks are for Everyone
Community Planting
Greenagers Trail Crew
Grappling with Geese
Community Programs
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
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
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.