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Owl snared in fishing line. Photo courtesy of Carin Macnamara / Advanced Imaging ©2024

Great Horned Owl Entangled: How You Can Help Wildlife at Lake Quannapowitt

January 11, 2024 8:29 am Published by Comments Off on Great Horned Owl Entangled: How You Can Help Wildlife at Lake Quannapowitt

You may have heard about the Great Horned Owl at Lake Quannapowitt earlier this month. Here’s more info on how to enjoy “Owl Season” at Lake Q and how to keep wildlife safe. “January is owl season in Massachusetts,” according to Mass Audubon in a recent WBUR interview, with many of the birds courting and nesting this time of year....


Laurel Perkins, Gertrude Spaulding Award Winner

2023 Gertrude Spaulding Award: Laurel Perkins

November 30, 2023 8:33 am Published by Comments Off on 2023 Gertrude Spaulding Award: Laurel Perkins

Congratulations to this year’s Gertrude Spaulding award winner, Laurel Perkins, who has been a member of FOLQ’s Col. Connelly Park Committee. In particular, Laurel’s incredibly hard work on the program to install memorial bricks around the Connelly Park Flagpole has made a lasting impression on our Lake and our organization. Thank you, Laurel! Learn more about the Bricks by the...


FOLQ’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Water Quality Presentation

June 17, 2023 8:59 am Published by Comments Off on FOLQ’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Water Quality Presentation

In 2023, FOLQ invited Dominic Meringolo, Environmental Engineer for Solitude Lake Management, Inc., to our annual business meeting to present and discuss possible in-lake solutions being used to reduce persistent algae blooms and improve water quality in lakes and ponds. These solutions would complement and provide additional impact to the Town’s current efforts to limit nutrients and pollutants from entering...