“This beautiful sheet of water, like a sapphire gem set round with emeralds…” Samuel Francis Smith, History of Newton, Massachusetts, 1880
Environment...
The Dam, the Pond & the Forest
NOTICE:
Bullough’s Pond was born when a man named John Spring built a dam across Smelt Brook in 1664 to power a grist mill. As a mill pond, Bullough’s Pond has always been shaped by the hand of man, and the plant life around and in the pond reflects human influence. T
Invasive wetland plants like orange jewelweed, purple loosestrife and especially the yellow flag irises are very pretty, but crowd out native wetland plants like cattails and Joe-pie-weed. They also impede waterflow, and have a very negative impact on biodiversity. |
Similarly, along the banks of the pond, helpful native plants like interrupted fern, cinnamon fern and turtlehead are displaced by aggressive, invasives like Japanese knotweed, bull clover, buckthorn and multiflora rose.
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The Bullough’s Pond Association is committed to consulting with experts in wetland species management a |