Over a hundred hikers, including a number of Fall River residents, joined Trustees superintendent Mike Labossiere on a 4.5-mile walk from Slocum's River to the Buzzards Bay Brewery in Westport on Super Bowl Sunday, 2008. Formerly known as Island View Farm, Slocum's River Reserve includes mature woodlands, agricultural fields, and pastures that slope down to the western bank of the Slocum's River. Two miles of trails cross the Reservation and connect to trail easements over an adjoining sixty acres of private land. The Reservation protects more than 3,000 feet of frontage along the Slocum's River (named for Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world) . Adjoining private farmland and pastures produce alfalfa and horticultural nursery stock and are used to graze livestock. The Trustees of Reservations and Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust (DNRT) jointly own and manage the property. Other heart healthy walks by the Trustees have included animal tracking, cedar swamp, the Go Deep Walk, the Mowry Path, the Promised Land, a, trailbuilding walk, a cross-country ski trip, a walk through Interlachen, a stone wall walk, and a 13-mile Big Walk. For directions or information on programs, please call 508.679.2115 x10 or e-mail them at bioreserve@ttor.org.
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(Top row) Property Manager Michael Labossiere of Trustees of Reservations leads the group of over 100 people along an easement near Slocum's River in Westport and then through woods. (Middle row, left) Nilsa Garcia-Ray, President of Gallery X in New Bedford who lives and works in Fall River, is helped across a stream by Tom Ryden, a member of the Paskamansett Pizza and Paddlers Club. (Middle row, right) Doug Tweedy, host of the Abbey Grill in Fall River, walks with the group through the nearby woods. (Bottom row) Erica Sahlin, right, Director of Ambulatory Services at Stanley Street Treatment and Resources looks at a bird's nest that Nilsa  Garcia-Ray found on the walk. (Bottom row, center) Hikers get a chance to see some farm animals up close while crossing the Ernie Waite farm in Westport before reaching the Buzzards Bay Brewery nearby. (Bottom row, right) Jim and Joan Hornsby of Fall River debark the bus that returned the group to the parking lot on Horseneck Road.