Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 07/06/2026National Weather Service HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. 10:20 is about peak for us #Worcrster #Massachusetts 310
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Spring is here! How many turtles do you see? We are debating in the office just HOW MANY there are!!! On Patch Reservoir in Worcester #Conservation #Worcester #Turtles 010
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Autumn Evening Light Cook's Pond Worcester MA @gwlandtrust.bsky.social 1122
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 10/10/2025"...in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community." Pope Leo XIV Dilexi te, 2025 020
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Cold, breezy with gusts, clear, no clouds overhead, crisp, sunrise. 030
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Went up Mount Wachusett this morning. Clear, light haze, Boston/ Monadnock/ Worcester all clearly visible, gusty wind, up at the top. Princeton MA 020
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025My 2025 Hike Worcester Week: 1. Middle River 2. Parsons 3. Puffer Heninger -> Spring Ledge Farm 4. Holbrook -> Donker 5. KinneyWoods 6. Cascades Falls Loop 7. Coes-> Hadwen 8. Broad Meadow Brk 9. Asnebumskit Briarcliff 10. Moreland Woods 11. Asnebumskit N #hikeworcesterweek @gwlandtrust.bsky.social 030
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Messing about on Commonwealth Ave. and enjoying the area on a beautiful morning. Boston MA 010
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Taking the girls out to Pasture C this morning at Donker Farm, a Worcester MA conservation area managed by @gwlandtrust.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Colin NovickGWLT @gwlandtrust.bsky.social · 20/09/2025The next Hike of GWLT's Hike Worcester Week is at 525 Salisbury St Holden at the White Oak Land Conservation Society sign & hiking to Spring Ledge Farm! These wilder woods will be good fun & will be led by Colin Novick. To officially sign up for #hikeworcesterweek go to www.gwlt.org/hike-worcest... 011
Reposted by Colin NovickGWLT @gwlandtrust.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Hike Worcester Week kicks off Fri Sept 19th @ 5pm with a hike on the Middle River Boardwalk! Led hike starts at the Blackstone Visitor Center, 3 Paul Clancy Way, Worc MA 01607. Support GWLT's trail stewardship by officially registering at: www.gwlt.org/hike-worcest... 045
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I had always wondered, assuming the time, weather, energy, all lined up perfectly, would I be willing to take on The Knifes Edge on Mt Katahdin? The odds against everything lining up to find out were long, but they happened, and we did! It was definitely a wild stretch, but I'm glad we did it! 010
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Got to enjoy the Trails End Festival in Millinocket Maine Saturday morning, complete with a parade, live music, and cool booths of vendors and organizations! Totally loved it! 030
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 14/09/2025For those of you who knew about Ryan & my trip north to Baxter State Park to climb Katahdin and reach Baxter Peak, yup, we summited Friday and in a blue bird blue sky day! Perfect! 010
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Ducks at dusk on Cook's Pond Cook's Pond Conservation Area Worcester MA 062
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Sunset atop Pakachoag Hill for an outdoor viewing of "Pakachoag: Where the River Bends" at the College of the Holy Cross, projected on the side of the Prior Center for the Performing Arts. 010
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Happy Wilderness Day! 9/3/64 Pres Johnson signed Wilderness Act “A wilderness, in contrast w those areas where man & his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth & its commnty of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain” 000
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Worcester Massachusetts Municipal Preliminary Election Beth Israel Ward 1 Precinct 4 City Council At-Large Elimination Let's do this Worcester! Vote! 000
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Yesterday Boston, Worcester, & Monadnock were all clear as a bell! Not much of a breeze, but the lack of haze is beautiful! From the summit of Mount Wachusett in Princeton MA 010
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Tatnuck Square view of the double rainbow this evening! 010
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Climate Change & Sea Level Rise in MA The Inquirer & Mirror: "Frequent southerly storms, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation will relocate its ranger shack to higher ground this fall to protect the structure & ensure the continued stewardship of the Coatue barrier beach www.ack.net/news/ncf-to-...ack.netNCF to relocate Coatue Ranger Shack due to erosion threats(Aug. 26, 2025) Due to increasing sea level rise and more frequent southerly storms, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation will relocate its ranger shack to higher ground this fall to protect 011
Reposted by Colin NovickTracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 07/07/2025ICYMI: Donker Farm (and @colinnovick.bsky.social in his guise as shepherd) www.telegram.com/story/lifest...telegram.comWorcester County Wonders: Worcester's only working farm remains wonderful and wildThe farm dates back to 1888 and remains the only working farm within city limits. 041
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Conservation is a Team Sport, and a lot of that coordination is supported by MLTC 3/3 010
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 08/07/2025More than that, they talk, share, and jointly approach this work with state staff as partners and include municipal staff as well. If you ever wonder why land conservation is so robust in Massachusetts you should know that the MLTC is right at the center of a lot of that collaboration 2/3massland.orgOur Team 110
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition is an invaluable group of conservation staff from nonprofits that share technical knowledge, support one another, organize around critical issues, and build a sense of community across the rural places, suburban areas, and cities of our state 1/3 110
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Worcester Natural History Society: 200th Anniversary Lyceum Series "Worcester Women Naturalists: Past and Present" 050
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Worcester from Wachusett Clear skies, light and variable breeze, cool, medium haze. 140
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025The South Wilcox Adirondack shelter on the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts' Beartown State Forest was built in 1933, and the classic lines of the design are still just as awesome today almost a century later! 000
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Appalachian Trail hike in Beartown State Forest with Gene generously acting as support crew for my one-way 8-ish mile hike. Best part, sighting a Bear on Beartown Mountain Rd in Beartown State Forest! So cool! #Tyringham #AppalachianTrail #Massachusetts 000
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 11/05/2025A week of DC by tent at the NPS Greenbelt Park was really great (even if it did rain a lot at night) 020
Reposted by Colin NovickGWLT @gwlandtrust.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Attending Land Trust Alliance #advocacydays in Washington DC to meet w our Federal delegation & agency reps on behalf of the @gwlandtrust.bsky.social ! Staying @ National Park Service Greenbelt campground while local, because a conservationist prefers the forest. Exec Dir @colinnovick.bsky.social 031
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025More from Palm Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Worcester. 000
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Palm Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Worcester MA 100
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Really enjoyed the late season snow storm in Worcester Massachusetts. 021
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 05/04/2025As Lent begins to draw to a close, the images in the church are covered, and in a week we begin Holy Week. The time of preparation is coming to a close. Cathedral of Saint Paul Diocese of Worcester 000
Reposted by Colin NovickGWLT @gwlandtrust.bsky.social · 31/03/2025March 31, 1933: The Emergency Conservation Work Act is signed into law, creating several federal agencies, including the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The first CCC camp would be established on George Washington National Forest in Virginia. 042
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The Fortune article on the 1st org chart is paywalled, but the article, like the chart it shares, is beautiful! It's for a railroad company & it captures the organic nature of the relationships & functions in a way no pyramid or set of stacked boxes could. This isnt just lines of authority I <3 this 030
Reposted by Colin NovickGWLT @gwlandtrust.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Worcester State University Department of Earth, Environment & Physics student, Katie Steeves, captured a field game camera video of an otter at the WSU GWLT Environmental Field Station on Patch Reservoir in Worcester MA! (ignore time & date stamp) Check it out! #conservation #otter #Worcester #WSU 062
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025“So I accept this award in the spirit of humility, stupidity, inanity, irrelevance, fear, self-doubt and profound unceasing silliness, I thank you, it’s the honor of a lifetime.” 000
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025“Twain is funny and important today because his comedy is a hilarious celebration of our fears, our ineptitude and the glorious mess of being human.” If we are to truly celebrate Twain, he said, "We acknowledge our commonality and we move just a little closer together." 100
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025“It has everything to do with comedy. Everything. The comedy I have loved all my life is comedy that’s self-critical, deflating and dedicated to the proposition that we are all flawed, absurd and wallowing in the mud together." 100
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Above all, Twain was a patriot in the best sense of the word. He loved America but knew it was deeply flawed. Twain wrote, ‘Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time & your government when it deserves it.” O’Brien suggested some might ask what does this have to do w comedy, & concluded: 100
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrowmindedness, and many our people need it sorely on these accounts.” “Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the gilded age and any expression of mindless American might or self-importance. 100
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Twain empathized with the powerless in America. Former slaves struggling in reconstruction, immigrant Chinese laborers in California and European Jews fleeing antisemitism.” Noting Twain’s remedy for ignorance was to travel the world, O’Brien quoted his words: 100
Colin Novick @colinnovick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025He punched up, not down & he deeply, deeply empathized with the weak.” O’Brien continued, “Twain was allergic to hypocrisy and he loathed racism. Twain wrote, ‘There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.’ 100
