Celebrate the Winter Solstice, Dec. 21, from 1 to 4 p.m. with the Bass River State Forest volunteers as they hike the burn zone of the Spring Hill Wildfire in Bass River State Forest “North.” The 5-mile hike is through the West Pine Plains Natural Area and the “Pygmy Pines” – the world’s largest acreage of this globally rare forest community. Several sections of the hike will be through places where the mature trees are scarcely taller than the hikers themselves.
The hike will also go through portions of the forest that was burned in the wildfire; you will be able to see first…
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