Students from Lesley University worked with Friends of Alewife Reservation to set up an experiment seeing how a native seed mix grows in different combinations of soil and enrichment products, including biochar. Biochar is a carbon-rich soil additive that provides nutrients for plants as well as habitat for beneficial fungus that grow in association with plant roots ('mycorrhizae'). Thanks to Sierra Club and Green Cambridge for providing the Biochar!
Students from Leslie University prepare the experimental plots. First, they pull existing weeds.
Next, any rocks, dried plants and other materials are raked away to expose bare ground.
Students then load biochar into a wheelbarrow to bring it to the planting site.
Students begin scattering seeds once the biochar has been placed.
One of the biochar planting areas with nearly all the seeds scattered.
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- An Urban Gem - Alewife Reservation Nature Preserve
- Envisioning The Silver Maple Forest
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(front, back) - Technical Analysis of Upper Alewife Basin
- Watershed: An Excursion in Four Parts
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Assessment of Silver Maple forest for DEP Adjudicatory hearings and
Patrick Fairbairn, author of the Assessment - Community Native Garden Flora
The
Alewife Reservation
is a unique natural resource for the communities of Belmont, Arlington and Cambridge
and home to hundreds of species, including hawks, coyotes beavers, snapping turtles, wild turkeys and muskrats,
the reservation is a unique natural resource for the community.
Historical information (Powerpoint)
Friends of Alewife Reservation works to protect and restore this wild area and the surrounding area for the water quality, native plants, animals and over 90 bird species with paths for walking, running and biking, recreation, and for classroom education and research. We regularly steward and preserve the Reservation area for wildlife and for the enjoyment of present and future generations.
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Citizen Forester newsletter archive
The Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts
by William Brewster 1906
Nuttal Ornithological Society
Biodiversity Study of Alewife Reservation Area: Species, Habitat, Ecosystems
Inventories by David Brown, wildlife assessor (2003, 2004.) Published by and available from FAR for $10. Write or call for your copy. (sample)
Updated Dave Brown Inventories (2008, 2010)
Inventories of Alewife Reservation Wetland Plants by Walter Kittredge, Botanist (2013)
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