Tree Identification Walk in Lower Bowker's Woods

04:13PM / Friday, August 11, 2023Print Story | Email Story

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) will lead a free tree identification walk on Sunday, Aug. 20, at 9:30 AM.

Participants will meet at the trailhead of Lower Bowker's Woods, a Laurel Hill Association property located near Stockbridge. The walk will last between 1.5 and 2 hours. Anybody is welcome to join, but the number of participants is limited.

Registration is required to join. Register at this link: https://tinyurl.com/August2023-BEAT-Tree-ID

Participants will learn key characteristics of common trees in western Massachusetts and get tips to help identify them by species. The 1-mile trail meanders along the Housatonic River and through a charming upland forest. The trail is typically considered an easy route, but it has uneven terrain in some areas with many roots; it also intersects railroad tracks. Some areas of the trail can be wet and muddy.

This walk is sponsored by Berkshire Environmental Action Team. BEAT is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Pittsfield, MA. They work with the community to protect the environment for wildlife in support of the natural world that sustains us all.

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Grega Leads GB Millers Back to BABL Title Game

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
09:38PM / Saturday, August 15, 2026

DALTON, Mass. – Will Grega struck out nine and allowed just one hit Saturday in pitching the unbeaten Great Barrington Millers to within one one of their third straight Berkshire Adult Baseball League 20-and-over Division Championship.

League batting champion Alex Salazar went 2-for-4 with an RBI, and the Millers scored five times in the top of the seventh to put away a 7-0 win over the Berkshire Thunder in the first game of their best-of-three title series.

The teams will meet again at 10 a.m. Sunday at Memorial Field in Great Barrington. If the Thunder pulls out a win, the teams will play again for all the marbles at about 1 p.m.

On Saturday, the Millers took the lead with two unearned runs against Berkshire’s Jake Barbarotta as he and Grega locked horns in a pitchers’ duel for six innings.

An error in the top of the third allowed Abdiel Cotto to score from third and give the Millers a 1-0 lead.

In the fifth, a pair of errors extended the inning to allow Brian Rodriguez to put a single in right field and bring home Chance O'Niel, who had reached on a one-out single.

The Thunder ended up with five errors in the game, putting extra strain on Barbarotta, who ended up departing with one out during the Millers’ seventh-inning rally.

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