GWLT Annual Meeting

I attended the annual meeting of the Greater Worcester Land Trust on Sunday night. It was a relatively small gathering but everyone was really nice. The keynote speaker was Olyssa Starry of the Urban Ecology Institute. Olyssa detailed her work in Worcester last summer. She performed rapid ecological assessments of 10 properties in the city and then scored each sight in a number of categories. The sights that scored high are prime targets for preservation either by outright purchase or by entering into conservation agreements with the owners. Olyssa did a great job explaining how she did the surveys and had some great slides showing some of the things she found (who knew that orchids grew wild in Worcester?).