Only You Can Protect the rare species here. Once gone, they are gone forever...We urge you to join in our opposing the NEMBA mountain bike proposal for altering the decades-old use of some seven acres of this pristine park...Noise, traffic, disruption to this precious habitat and wetlands.

Cornell conservation experts have toured the park and declare it is ALL wetlands, even if some is invisible--because underground. COME TO THE PARKS MEETING AT PITTSFIELD CITY HALL ON SEPT. 21ST AT 6 PM. JOIN US IN STOPPING THIS TRAVESTY.

All this water is connected, flows from higher elevations down both to the east and west, into tributaries that go into the Housatonic River. ALL Berkshire County is affected.

Please join us in stopping this catastrophic intrusion. (Mountain biking advocates may say this is "contained" by a fence, but water doesn't recognize such boundaries, no do the animals or plants that exist because of this water!) Attend parks and consevation committee meetings, write your representatives and local press. Check the Pittsfield City web site and join the Best Friends of Springside.

Springside is a migratory drop and fly zone...If it's noisy or intruded upon, the birds will not come. Birds and bikes don't mix. Please enjoy walking your dog elsewhere during migration season.

Bike trails DO affect the whole park's balance. Please bike on one of the nine trails already available in the Berkshires. Why not improve a blighted area for biking, not rob the city of this treasure?

Let's teach our grandchildren how nurturing it is to nurture nature! They'll thank us long after we're gone.