Members of Green Futures led a group of about a dozen walkers walk through the Copicut Woods on an beautiful April 14th, 2012 The 13,600 acre Copicut Woods Bioreserve was established and is managed cooperatively by The Trustees of Reservations, the City of Fall River, and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Department of Environmental Management, and Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. Copicut, a Wampanog word meaning "Deep Woods", is one of the largest areas of undisturbed forest in Massachusetts and serves as a gateway to the wilderness from the City of Fall River. "Not many people in Fall River realize that this is part of the City," noted Green Futures Education Director Everett Castro, who led the group along with Roger Garant. "A lot of the early history of Fall River took place on the farms that once occupied this land," he added. Click here for an eleven-minute video of the walk. For more information about Green Futures, contact them.
 

(Top row, left) Stefani Koorey of the Fall River History Club points to the area on the map of the Bioreserve that the group will walk. (Top row, center and right) Green Futures Education Director Everett Castro talks about the history of the area and points out some of its natural features. (Middle row, left) Manny Leite passes Stefani a mayflower that Mr. Castro found earlier in the day. (Middle row, center and right) Roger Garant leads the group to the trail as Dan Howard takes up the rear of the group. (Bottom row) Mr. Castro talks about the early history of the area as the group walks through the former farmland.