| Click here to learn about vernal pools and their importance! Want even more info? Click here - MA Audubon |
| Below are some pictures of a Certified Vernal Pool near our home. If you do not know what a vernal pool is, click on the link below for more information. We will just say that they are an important environment that should be protected and maintained. Per Mass Audubon: “Vernal pools are a severely threatened resource in the state...Acquisition of vernal pools and surrounding habitat as conservation areas should be a priority for local open space protection efforts." Saving only the pool itself is not enough, though, because, "amphibians that breed in vernal pools live in the surrounding forest for much of the year. A 100-foot buffer is insufficient to maintain viable populations of amphibians in the local area around a vernal pool. Therefore, citizens and conservation commissions should target forested uplands around known vernal pools as priorities for land protection through acquisition, conservation restrictions, or voluntary landowner land management agreements." (Mass Audubon) |
| Vernal Pool Spring 2006 |
| Vernal Pool - Turned in to an area of ORV recreation Picture above left - you can see where dirt was being pulled into the pool from ORV riders. |
| Vernal Pool January 2007 More deterioration of a side bank from ORV use. |
| Vernal Pools |
| Vernal Pool taken February 2008 after just one or two passes |
| Tires discarded in Vernal Pool |
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