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MassAcorn: A co-operative resource network for the Westfield and Deerfield watersheds of western Massachusetts.
Monthly Update
  • Monthly Highlight

    Our Highlight focuses on the people and organizations in the Deerfield and Westfield watersheds and how they are managing their lands for future generations. 

  • Monthly Poetry Selection

    Each month, we bring you a selection from a Massachusetts poet. 

  • Selection from Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac"

    Excerpts are from "A Sand County Almanac, with essays on conservation from Round River", by Aldo Leopold and published by Oxford University Press (1966). For more information about Aldo Leopold, see www.aldoleopold.org An inexpensive paperback version of Sand County Almanac published by Ballantine Books is widely available at book stores or on-line.