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Click on a photo below to see a slideshow of trail building events.
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Bare Meadow Boardwalk, Spring 2010 Trails Committee members and other volunteers are hard at work building a boardwalk in the Bare Meadow Conservation Area. The boardwalk improves a section of the Ipswich River Greenway near Haverhill Street.
Funding for the project is from a state Recreation Trails Grant. Bond Brothers, an Everett-based construction management firm, contributed staff and equipment. Thanks Bond Brothers! |
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Bare Meadow and Mattera Trail Improvements, October 17, 2009. Volunteers completed work on the accessible trail between the Mattera cabin and Bare Meadow wildlife viewing platform. Two benches were installed with the help of volunteers from local non-profit, Understanding Disabilities. Plaques on the benches honor UD founder, Judy LeBlanc.
A second group of volunteers began work under a Recreation Trails Grant filling several low, wet sections of the Ipswich River Greenway in Bare Meadow Conservation Area. |
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Bare Meadow Viewing Platform Railing and Ramp Installation, November 22, 2008. Volunteers added a railing and ramp to the unfinished viewing platform at Bare Meadow. A first batch of Adopt-A-Trail volunteers were trained by Trails Committee members; another batch of volunteers cleared buckthorn from Bare Meadow. Funding was provided by a $5,000 grant from local retailer REI. |
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Bare Meadow Viewing Platform Build, October 18, 2008. In the fall of 2008, 21 volunteers built a wildlife viewing platform in Bare Meadow Conservation Area. Funding was provided by a $5,000 grant from local retailer REI. The platform can be reached from the recently built accessible trail from the Mattera Conservation Area. Low to the ground and wheelchair accessible, it will provide a comfortable vantage point overlooking Bare Meadow. Hikers, bird watchers and star gazers, casual users and organized groups will all enjoy this new amenity.
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Mattera Accessible Trail Build. On National Trails Day, June 7 2008, Recreation Equipment Incorporated (REI), Friends of Reading Recreation, and the Trails Committee co-sponsored a trail building day. Reading DPW prepped the trail prior to the event. On the day of the event, 40 volunteers built a one-tenth mile accessible trail from the parking lot at the Mattera Conservation Area to Bare Meadow, one of the Town's most beautiful conservation
areas. The Mattera Conservation Area is located at 1481 Main Street near the North Reading town line. |
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