Lone Tree Hill Volunteers Clean, Weed, Plant

By Radha Iyengar

On Saturday, April 30, a sunny but cool day, BCF, in conjunction with the Judy Record Conservation Fund, held its eighth annual Lone Tree Hill Volunteer Day. 

At the Pine Allee, volunteers planted 46 white pine saplings of which 40 saplings were store bought and 6 were transplants from Lone Tree Hill. The new plants replaced some of the Allee’s missing trees as well as some of the dead saplings from the 2017-2019 volunteer day plantings. At the other end of the property, the volunteers collected 11 bags of trash, one box of recyclables and six bags of garlic mustard.

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Thank You to Our Sponsors

Platinum level: Belmont Land Trust and Northland Residential

Gold level: Anne Mahon Realty, Artefact Home and Garden, Cityside Subaru, Rockland Trust Bank, and Watertown Savings Bank 

Silver level: Cambridge Savings Bank and Renaissance Realty

Community Cosponsors: Belmont Helps, Clean Green Belmont, Land Management Committee for Lone Tree Hill, Mass Audubon Habitat Sanctuary, and Sustainable Belmont

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The BCF is grateful to David Ropes and Stephen Richards of Tree Specialists, Inc. for supervising the planting, and the Judy Record Conservation Fund for funding their ongoing work and purchasing the trees. A big shout-out goes to Leonard Katz for supervising garlic mustard removal, to Anne-Marie Lambert for directing the volunteers at the bottom of Coal Road, to Sandy Vorce (Habitat) for sending six Boston College volunteers to help with planting, and to Michael Santoro, DPW Highway Division manager, and his staff, for picking up the trash.

Radha Iyengar is treasurer of Belmont Citizens Forum and organizer of BCF Volunteer Day.