Spring Pond Woods

More meadow/ pine barrens discoveries

These are recent findings of different species and objects found in various places of Spring Pond Woods.

unidentified dragonfly

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

photographer: Leslie C.

Sweet White Clover flora

location: meadows Peabody/ Salem

photographer: Leslie C.

Spicebush Swallowtail

location: Spring Pond Road, Peabody/Lynn

photographer: Leslie C.

unidentified bluet damselfly

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

unidentified black caterpillar

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

unidentified tiny white flora

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

Common Whitetail dragonfly

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

(commonly found in the barrens of Cape Cod)

unidentified white aster flora

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

unidentified yellow flora

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

unidentified moth

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

unidentified dragonfly

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

unidentified purple flora

location: Pine Barrens, Salem

split rock (in many different locations)

garbage bag collector, set by an anonymous person

location: Spring Pond Rd, Lynn

(Thank You!)

LEED please

Back on Sept 30, 2010, a member of the Salem Planning Board made a preference to have a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified project. This seems impossible because the location of the project does not meet the checklist of LEED's Site Selection regarding loss of undeveloped land and wetland, including loss of open space, wildlife habitat, issues of storm water discharge, and so forth.

The planning board member, by this statement, highly expresses a lack of knowledge of the site and project details, to which a judgement was placed upon.

Below is a copy from the meeting minutes w/links to LEED info.

Salem Planning Board
Minutes of Meeting
September 30, 2010
http://salem.com/Pages/SalemMA_PlanMin/2010Minutes/S02CEF103

Copy from meeting minutes (if link breaks above):
"Helen Sides wanted to hear more about sustainability and asked if Lowe’s would receive LEED certification. Rob Jess said no, but it would meet many LEED requirements nonetheless without undergoing certification; Ms. Sides expressed her preference that it be LEED certified, or at least the best possible green design that a Lowe’s can be."

LEED reference: (copy)
Sustainable Sites
"Site selection and development are important components of a building’s sustainability. The Sustainable Sites category discourages development on previously undeveloped land; seeks to minimize a building's impact on ecosystems and waterways; encourages regionally appropriate landscaping; rewards smart transportation choices; controls stormwater runoff; and promotes reduction of erosion, light pollution, heat island effect and construction-related pollution." http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1989

LEED checklist:
http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=1095

Mass Audubon Bird Watch, July

It is unclear where these species listed by the Mass Audubon were sighted. There are many gulls seen at Spring Pond. Here is a report for a Glaucous Gull, roaming the Salem area. There were no observations noted for South Peabody or Lynn near this area in the past month. Perhaps because observers are not generally walking this site?

Link: www.massaudubon.org/Birds_and_Birding/sightings.php?type=archive#eastern

More wetland and meadow discoveries

Recent photos shared by Leslie Courtemanche.

Small amphibian

Two unidentified dragonflies courting

White Swamp Azalea

unidentified Butterfly

Flower

Map: Lion Land Transfers

The black outline in the maps below represent land granted by Elizabeth Trumbull in 1945 to Lynn Lions members, who later created the organization Camp Lion (copy). Property which has been sold off, taken, or under a current sale agreement is shaded in pink. The 'wild woodland' remaining or to remain from this grant is approximately shown in white. Camp Lion of Lynn, Mass, Articles of Declaration state to maintain wild woodland (copy).

Previous Lion land transfers