Massachusetts’ smallest city takes on a big fight: saving forests from climate change

Massachusetts’ smallest city takes on a big fight: saving forests from climate change

In North Adams, a recovering mill town in Massachusetts, a stream runs through white pines that are 90 years old. Michaela Lapointe enjoys listening to the sound of the water. Once, she saw the quick, sleek movement of an otter diving a few feet away. For eight years, she has walked the Bellows Pipe Trail almost daily. She first came to the woods at a difficult time, when her father was dying of cancer. Now she comes to remember him. Lapointe an…