Regional News

Natalia Jacobs is a student at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School (PVPA) and in her first year of serving on the leadership team for the Western Mass Youth Climate Summit.

Thanks to support from the Northampton Education Foundation, Arcadia's educators have brought the Life in a Changing Climate program to more than 1,800 elementary and high school students over the past five years.

In late October, 60 middle and high school students gathered at Arcadia's outdoor pavilion for the 5th Annual Western Mass Youth Climate Summit. As always, the event was organized and planned by a team of student Youth Leaders.

Charlotte Hood and Tom Gregg, Student Conservation Association Interns, are wrapping up their eight-month internship and have lessons and gratitude to share.

More than 50 volunteers turned out in the last days of October 2020 to help restore a floodplain forest at Arcadia. Now, a second round of funding will expand the restoration effort to an additional 5 acres.

With 249 total species reported on eBird, Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary tops the list as the #1 birding hotspot in all of central and western Massachusetts.

Registration for Berkshire Nature Camp in Lenox opens on Thursday, January 20, and we’re looking forward to sunshine, summertime, and days filled with adventure in the great outdoors.  

Old Baldy Mountain gets its name from the open summit. But without active habitat management, trees would overtake the summit's field and thicket within just 20 years.

If you've enjoyed a Mass Audubon naturalist-led hike, school field trip, library program, or summer camp in the Berkshires and Connecticut River Valley area this year, then you've benefited from the work of Dale Abrams.

On July 27, Pleasant Valley was hit by a devastating storm. The microburst it produced uprooted or snapped hundreds of mature trees in a swath across the entrance and trail-laden section of the sanctuary.

Pleasant Valley has officially opened the doors of the brand-new addition to our 18th-century Program Barn! The opening was celebrated with supporters of the project including representatives of the Mass Cultural Council, the Town of Lenox, and several foundations.