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by Northern Woodlands Winter 2020

Woven Sculpture and Meadow Restoration Go Hand in Hand

Cascades West
Executive Director Colin Novick carries a Norway maple away from Cascades West. Photos courtesy of the Greater Worcester Land Trust.

Community engagement in nature and art takes many forms. A two-decade effort to restore a healthy meadow to an urban forest in Worcester, Massachusetts, also brought a college campus and a world-renowned sculptor together with volunteers from the Greater Worcester Land Trust (GWLT). In 2016, GWLT director Colin Novick received a request from the College of Holy Cross to furnish visiting artist Patrick Dougherty with birch and Norway saplings removed from the Cascades West restoration site. The land trust happily complied, and here we show GWLT and Holy Cross volunteers working together to supply the saplings while enhancing meadow habitat.

You can read the full story about the woven sculpture and view more images of its creation here.

Sculpture and Meadow Restoration Gallery

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