Apparently someone at the Village Mall decided it was easier to toss their bags of leaves over the hill onto the trail. These are from the last 2 months or so; they were not there before that. Tim Vermette has been getting out there quite regularly to clean and this kind of thing is disheartening.
ed. The owners of the Village Mall are looking into the clean-up crew who did this.
Today I got a good look at the section of tracks I have been avoiding. Years of casual disposal of industrial and business waste are built up along the embankments everywhere from the back of Granite Ave apartments up through the end of Pine St. The actual ‘wild’ areas are pretty clean by comparison. The sections that abut businesses and homes are the ones most fouled but dumping. topical and individual garbage elements can be removed by hand, but the serious industrial waste will have to be removed with a backhoe and trucked out by dump truck. It is much too dangerous to be handled by humans.
Birding along the rail trail
Before and after sneak peak
