TIMES RECORD • May 1, 2024
It’s the day before Earth Day 2024. From a late-morning meet-up at Brunswick Town Hall, five of us drive 15 minutes to the parking area beneath the high point in town. Cox Pinnacle hovers. We are here as part of an Earth Day trail cleanup, joining town staff from Parks and Rec with a group of six Bowdoin College students and four of us from the town’s Conservation Commission. We trim overhanging branches, employ the bucksaw to some tilted or fallen medium trees, comb leaves and muck from a few more waterbars. Meanwhile, a nine-person crew at the pine-rich Kate Furbish preserve is finding fuller work. Branches litter the trail and a number of full-sized trees block the way. We’re all here for various experiential reasons and itches, hoping that our little work helps others to take the hundreds of little steps that get them into local wild places. ~ Sandy Stott