Jim Lee (left) looks on as Brian McClain shows a group of volunteers how to fasten a landscape fabric and moisture barrier around a chestnut tree seedling placed inside a flexible tube to protect it from animals. The Conservation Commission and the volunteers are creating a nursery orchard for American chestnut seedlings on the Powell conservation land on East Bare Hill Road. Eventually 100 chestnut seedlings will be planted in two plots on the open land where the Boy Scouts once raised Christmas trees. (Photo by Lisa Aciukewicz).
Plann(t)ing for the future
