Present:

• Matt Boudreau, Chair
• Lisa Bozzuto
• Abby Fredsall via Zoom
• Shelby Marshall via Zoom
• Erik Rasmussen via Zoom

1. Minutes approved as written
2. Chair said the Commission would apply to Community Preservation Committee (CPC) for grants for Town forests as follows:
   1. Treatment of Ice Glen hemlocks
   2. Signs in Ice Glen to direct and inform visitors
3. Discussion of Earth Day, Arbor Day, and Dedication Day (for dedicating Ice Glen as an Old Growth Forest)
   1. Earth Day is April 22, and on April 23rd, in partnership with Austin Riggs, 150 (tree) seedlings with instructions on how to plant a tree written by Fredsall will be distributed
   2. Arbor Day is April 29th
   3. Dedication of Ice Glen will be May 6th (rain date, May 13th)
4. Marshall suggested Laurel Hill Association may stop maintaining Town properties due to cost and liability.
5. Discuss hiring the Forester at next meeting and possibly using a Stewardship grant to pay the Forester
6. Chair met with Mark Faber, Tree Warden, and discussed completing paperwork to become a Tree City as well as planting more trees. Faber said when National Grid takes down a tree or trees, they replace them at no cost to Town. Chair said meeting with Faber went well
7. Bozzuto would like to place ads in Stockbridge Updates for upcoming events and wondered if there was a cost.

Meeting adjourned

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