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It's a critical time for the park NOW with the Sept. 12, '21 parks meeting coming up fast (Please come, details below), and as mountain bike trails continue to be furtively built and used, damaging soil and with at least one report of a hiker jumping out of harm's way of a biker on the hiking path. That's NOT defined as passive use! Please donate asap! You can write checks to the Vincent J. Hebert Arboretum and mail them in care of Elizabeth Kulas, President, PO Box 344, Pittsfield, MA 01202. Please direct questions to sacredgardening@yahoo.com.

A new proposal (whose specifics have yet to be available to the public as of this writing) has received preliminary approval by the City of Pittsfield for a proposed mountain bike training park that will damage some 7 acres directly--and ALL the rest of this park via its underground water, root/soil erosion, inhibition of wildlife and migratory birds attracted by the water--the springs--for which Springside is named. Warblers, insects, rare plants, animals all depend on its being intact. In fact, this disruption affects all of Berkshire County...COME TO THE PARKS meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 21st (prob. time 6 pm in Room 203 or auditorium of Pittsfield MA City Hall). THIS COULD BE THE LAST CHANCE TO STOP THIS ROBBERY OF YOUR PUBLIC PARK FOR THE BENEFIT OF A PRIVATE DEVELOPER HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT BEHIND NEMBA, A NOT-FOR PROFIT, who uses ad hominem and ungrounded claims against Best Friends.