Kristina Bezanson Celebrates Western MA Foliage in 'Boston Magazine'
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For Bostonians and other Bay Staters out east, driving west just to see the leaves change might sound unnecessary. But while Boston’s trees do their best, the real spectacle happens beyond the city, closer to UMass Amherst.
Kristina Bezanson—associate of science program coordinator of Arboriculture and Community Forest Management and a senior lecturer in arboriculture and urban forestry in the College of Natural Sciences's Stockbridge School of Agriculture—explains to Boston Magazine why the western half of Massachusetts simply outshines the rest:
"Just ask Kristina Bezanson...at UMass Amherst, who [appreciates] leaves and drives weekly into the city. Her verdict? It’s not even close. The west rules, and deep down, we know it. Sure, we put on a show with our Norway maples and honey locusts that no one knows the names of, and they do give off colors. 'Yellow, brown, and bleh,' she says."
— Boston Magazine
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