List of National Natural Landmarks in Massachusetts information
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The National Park Service has designated eleven National Natural Landmarks in Massachusetts. Most of these are bogs, swamps, wetlands and old-growth forest.
Acushnet Cedar Swamp
Aquinnah, Massachusetts
Bartholomew's Cobble
Cold River Virgin Forest
Mt. Greylock Old Growth Spruce
Muskeget Island
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Massachusetts National Natural Landmarks (clickable map)
Name
Image
Date
Location
County
Ownership
Description
Acushnet Cedar Swamp
June 1972
New Bedford
41°41′32″N70°57′35″W / 41.692222°N 70.959722°W / 41.692222; -70.959722 (Acushnet Cedar Swamp)
Bristol
state
One of the state's largest, wildest and most impenetrable swamps, and an outstanding example of the diversity of conditions and species in the glaciated section of the oak-chestnut forest.[1]
The area contains the only sizeable example of Connecticut River flood plain under preservation, exhibiting many successional stages including upland and flood plain forest, swamp, marsh, ponds, and meadows.[4]
Gay Head Cliffs
October 1975
Aquinnah
41°20′04″N70°47′45″W / 41.334444°N 70.795833°W / 41.334444; -70.795833 (Gay Head Cliffs)
Dukes
native lands (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head)
An unusual cross section of Raritan and Magothy sediments of Cretaceous age and fossil-bearing sands of Miocene and either Pliocene or Pleistocene ages that rise as much as 150 feet (46 m) above sea level, resting on the continental shelf and detached from the mainland. The center of Wampanoag native culture.[5]
Unspoiled cold northern boreal sphagnum-heath bog occupying an old shallow glacial lake basin which demonstrates bog succession from the central open water pond to the surrounding spruce-fir forest.[6]
This site contains three separate stands of undisturbed old growth red spruce on the northwest slopes of Mount Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts. These stands have been undisturbed for at least 150–180 years, and may be virgin. No other old growth red spruce stands are known in southern New England, while only a few comparable or better sites occur in northern New England.[7]
The only known locality where the Muskeget beach vole is found, and southernmost station where the gray seal breeds. The area supports an enormous nesting population of herring gulls and black-backed gulls.[8]
North and South Rivers
May 1977
Norwell
42°09′37″N70°42′51″W / 42.1604°N 70.7141°W / 42.1604; -70.7141 (North and South Rivers)
Plymouth
state, municipal, private
Classic examples of drowned river-mouth estuaries, supporting at least 45 species of fish and many species of birds. The site contains salt marsh, brackish marsh, and freshwater marsh areas.[9]
An undisturbed sphagnum-heath bog in southern New England, illustrating ecological succession from open water in a glacial depression to upland forest.[10]
Reedy Meadow (was Lynnfield Marsh)
June 1972
Between Wakefield and South Lynnfield
Essex
municipal,
The largest freshwater cattail marsh in Massachusetts. The area preserves the habitat requirements of many bird species and serves as a breeding ground for the king rail and least bittern, rare species in the region.[11]
^"Acushnet Cedar Swamp National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"Bartholomew's Cobble National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"Cold River Virgin Forest National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"Fannie Stebbins Refuge National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"Gay Head Cliffs National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"Hawley Bog National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"Mt. Greylock Old Growth Spruce National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"Muskeget Island National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"North and South Rivers National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"Poutwater Pond National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
^"Lynnfield Marsh National Natural Landmark". National Park Service. US Gov. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
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