Fresh Pond Master Plan Advisory Board Public Meeting

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Thursday, September 7, 2017

Location:
Walter J. Sullivan Water Treatment Facility
250 Fresh Pond Pkwy.
Cambridge

Neighborhood:
City Wide

Contact:
David Kaplan, 617-349-4799

Sept 7, 2017 Meeting Agenda
Meeting time: 6:00 PM
Location: Water Treatment Facility 250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Meeting Chair: Janice Snow
Meeting minutes: Sam Corda/Jen Letourneau

Item 1: Review Agenda

Item 2: Meeting Minutes
      - March 16, 2017, May 18, 2017 Minutes (D. Kaplan/S. Corda)

Item 3: New Conservation Commission Representative to the Advisory Board 

Item 4: Ecological Study of effect of artificial lighting on Huron Pine Forest habitat

-Sarah Burnum, Ph.D., Senior Wildlife Scientist, Normandeau Associates

- Michael Newhouse, Biologist/Wetland Scientist, Kleinfelder

Item 5: Watershed Manager's Report (D. Kaplan)

      - DCR Greenway Update
      - Drainage and Community Garden Project
      - Landscape Maintenance (V. Falcione)

            Update on fungal threat to white pine stands near Lusitania

Item 6:  Reservation Signage (D. Kaplan, J. Snow)

            At pine forest boundaries of Greenway

            At Drainage and Community Garden

            Other

Item 7: Long Term Master Plan Projects: Annual Update (S. Corda)

Item 8: Fresh Pond Day Report (S. Agger, S. Corda, J.Snow)

Item 9: Preliminary Agenda for November 16, 2017 Advisory Board Meeting

Presentation on the history of function of the Cambridge Conservation Commission; Report on 2017 Cambridge Public Schools Ecology Education projects at the Reservation; Projects Status; Reservation signage.

Item 10: Public Comment