MA/RI Chapter Tantasqua Reforestation

Douglas Hutcheson, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Service Forester for eastern Hampshire and Hampden counties, will speak at the Monson Library on Wednesday, October 2nd, 7 p.m., about a unique community forestry project. The project, a collaboration between The Replanting Monson Tree Committee, The Tantasqua Chestnut Project, and The American Chestnut Foundation, aims to improve ecological, historical, and recreational value to a tornado ravaged stretch of public forest land on the slopes of Mt. Ella, in Monson’s Flynt Park, by restoring, historically prolific, American chestnut trees to the re-emergent forest community there.