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To compensate for injuries to natural resources caused by the Charles George Reclamation Trust Landfill, the Trustees transferred settlement funds to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) to purchase the 113-acre Larter property in Dunstable, MA. Located across Dunstable Road from the Charles George Landfill, the Larter property contains diverse wildlife habitat inclu. . . read more!
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To compensate for injuries to natural resources caused by the Charles George Reclamation Trust Landfill, the Trustees provided settlement funds to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) to purchase the 75-acre Greene property in Tyngsborough, MA. Located along the Tyngsborough/Dunstable Town line, the property is mainly forested with some open shrubland habitats. The p. . . read more!
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To compensate for injuries to natural resources, the Nyanza Natural Resource Trustees transferred $1,047,500 to the Sudbury-Assabet-Concord River Watershed Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (SuAsCo CISMA) to control invasive plants in the Sudbury River watershed. SuAsCo CISMA collaborated with the Massachusetts Audubon Society (Mass Audubon) to map purple loosestrife in wetlands along t. . . read more!
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To compensate for injuries to diadromous fish, the Nyanza Natural Resource Trustees provided funding to conduct a feasibility study to examine the actions necessary to improve fish passage in the Concord River. Diadromous fish, such as alewives, American eels, American shad, blueback herring, and sea lampreys, historically migrated through the streams and rivers of the Sudbury-Assabet-Concord (SuA. . . read more!
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In 2013, the Nyanza Natural Resource Trustees provided funding to the Massachusetts Audubon Society (Mass Audubon) to establish a program of educational field trips and classroom visits for students to learn about the ecological significance of the Sudbury River. Based on a successful watershed education program developed and run by Mass Audubon, the Sudbury RiverSchools Program partnered with eig. . . read more!
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Located in Westborough, MA, Jackstraw Brook is a small headwater stream in the Sudbury-Assabet-Concord (SuAsCo) River Watershed. The brook is an important tributary of the Cedar Swamp, the first Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) designated in the Commonwealth, and has been afforded Outstanding Resource Water (ORW) protections under MA Surface Water Quality Standards. Though residential. . . read more!
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The 124-acre Greenways Conservation Area is located along the Sudbury River in Wayland, MA. Adjacent to a segment of the Sudbury that is designated as a National Wild & Scenic River, the conservation area contains property owned by the non-profit Sudbury Valley Trustees (SVT) and the Town of Wayland. In this conservation area, 88 acres are protected in perpetuity and the other 36 acres are managed. . . read more!
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The Nyanza Natural Resource Trustees utilized a portion of the settlement funding to acquire and protect several parcels along the Sudbury River that were threatened by development. Three properties in Sudbury, MA, totaling about 18.1 acres, were acquired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and added to the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (GMNWR). The Trustees also transferred fun. . . read more!
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Located in Framingham and Ashland, MA, Stearns and Brackett Reservoirs are the two southern-most reservoirs within the South Basin of the Sudbury Reservoir System. Water flows from Brackett Reservoir into Stearns Reservoir, then continues to north into the Sudbury River. The South Basin has not provided water to Boston or the city's western suburbs since 1930. When the Nyanza Chemical Waste Dump w. . . read more!
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To compensate for the loss of recreational uses caused by the Nyanza Chemical Waste Dump, the Trustees will provide $145,000 to create a boat launch on the Sudbury River in Ashland, MA. Located off Aikens Road, this will provide public access to launch canoes, kayaks and other small, car top boats. Currently, fishing and boating access to the upper Sudbury River is limited, the next formal river a. . . read more!
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To compensate for the loss of recreational uses, the Nyanza Trustees allocated $168,000 in settlement funds to improve pedestrian access along the Red Maple Trail, a popular walking trail at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (GMNWR) that overlooks the Sudbury River and its associated wetlands. To make the trail compliant with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards, six inches of . . . read more!
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The Nyanza Natural Resource Trustees provided funding to the non-profit New England Wild Flower Society (renamed the Native Plant Trust in 2019) to restore native wild rice populations in the the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord (SuAsCo) River Watershed. Wild rice is an important food source for waterfowl, moose, muskrats and other organisms. The dense stalks provide roosting areas, brood cover and n. . . read more!
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The Merrimack River is the fourth largest river system in New England. In 2016, the river herring (alewife and blueback herring) spawning run consisted of over 400,000 fish, representing the largest run in a time series spanning over 30 years since data has been collected at fishways in Lowell and Lawrence, MA. These increases were likely due to stocking efforts and other natural fluctuations in t. . . read more!
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To compensate for natural resources injured as a result of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) released from the General Electric (GE) facility in Pittsfield, MA, the Connecticut SubCouncil of the Housatonic River Natural Resource Trustees awarded $557,810.00 to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to acquire permanent Conservation Restrictions (CRs) on riparian agricultural and floodplain forest land along . . . read more!
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