The Trustees of Reservations’ Grassland Restoration project at Ward Reservation has recently come to near-full fruition. According to ecologist Russell Hopping, “The main work is done, but we will be in a restoration phase for many years to bring back the habitat.”
It was in 2010 that The Trustees commenced the restoration of the property’s natural habitat. They began by clearing wooded areas on Boston Hill, and have since moved on to Holt Hill, a drumlin that hosts a community of fire-adapted plants. Over the years, successional forest had displaced native plant and wildlife species, thereby disrupting the entire e
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