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Conservation Books
Trail and Other Guidebooks
Newton Conservators Almanac
Spend 12 months getting to know Newton's parks with the Newton Conservators Almanac.
Walking Trails
in Newton's Park & Conservation Lands
A 56-page guide containing detailed trail maps
of 27 conservation areas in Newton, featuring parks, ponds, gardens,
trails, canoe launches, nature guides, rock climbing, scenic views,
handicapped access, geological features, and bird watching areas.
The guide also contains photos, driving directions, interesting
historical details, and an overall map of showing the locations
of the 27 natural areas.
AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Boston
Descriptions and maps of 50 day hikes in Eastern Massachusetts, mostly within I-495. (Most of the destinations are listed on this page.)
WalkBoston:
Walking Tours of Boston's Unique Neighborhoods
This book describes walking tours in Boston
and many surrounding communities, including three trips in Newton.
The Newton walks are Newton Center, Hemlock
Gorge and Upper Falls, and the Upper Charles River Reservation
(including Charles River Path -- Bemis
Dam).
Massachusetts Trail Guide
This book describes hiking trails in Cutler
Park and Webster Conservation Area.
Exploring
in and around Boston on Bike and Foot
This
book includes a 2-mile walk in Webster Conservation
Area as well as a 17-mile bike ride in Newton and Brookline.
More
Nature Walks in Eastern Massachusetts
This
book includes a 1-mile walk in Hemlock Gorge.
Exploring
the Hidden Charles
This
book provides information about canoing the Charles River, and hiking
and biking near its banks.
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Boston
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by Helen Weatherall
American Hiking Society, 2008
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The title says it all. Includes several hikes in Newton park and conservation areas, including Houghton Garden and Hemlock Gorge.
Walks in Wellesley
by Margaret Klein Wilson
Wellesley Conservation Council, 1991
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This book (and enclosed map) describes 19 open space areas in and around Wellesley, including Hemlock Gorge and the Fyffe Footbridge. The book is for sale at Wellesley Booksmith or from the Wellesley Conservation Council.
The
Charles River:
Exploring Nature and History on Foot and by Canoe
This
book also provides information about canoing the Charles
River and hiking near its banks. It includes USGS maps of the entire
length of the Charles.
Short
Bike Rides in Eastern Massachusetts
by Howard Stone
Globe Pequot Press, 1999
The book contains a 19-mile tour of Newton and
Brookline.
Bike
Paths of Massachusetts
by Stuart A. Johnstone
Active Publications, 1997
This book contains a description of the Charles
River bike path from Waltham to Boston.
Science, Natural History, History, etc.
Inventing the Charles River
by Karl Haglund
MIT Press, 2002
This history of the creation of the Charles River basin was the subject of the guest speaker at the 2004 Conservators annual dinner.
Stone by
Stone
The Magnificent History in New England's
Stone Walls
by Robert Thorson
Walker & Company, 2002
This book was the subject of the Fall
2002 lecture.
Roadside Geology
of Massachusetts
by James W. Skehan
Mountain Press, 2001.
This book was the subject of the Spring
2002 lecture.
Conserving Earth's
Biodiversity CD-ROM
by Dan Perlman and E. O. Wilson
Island Press, 2000
Dan Perlman, biologist and photographer, created
this CD with Professor E.O. Wilson of Harvard University. The CD
is ideal for older students and adult learners who wish togain a
deeper appreciation for conservation biology and environmental science.
It is hailed by one by one scientist as "
a
breakthrough in science teaching through interactive multimedia.
The combination of E.O. Wilson's on-screen narration, and Dan Perlman's
educational design and content make this production a must for science
students and teachers."
This CD-ROM was featured in the Fall
2001 lecture.
National
Audubon Society Field Guide to New England
by Peter Alden
Knopf, 1998
The author gave the Spring
2001 lecture.
Reflections
in Bullough's Pond
Economy and Ecosystem in New England
by Diana Muir
University Press of New England, 2000
The Boston Globe said this book about Bullough's
Pond is "an extraordinary book, a combination of polemic
and all-encompassing scholarship."
Birds
of Massachusetts
By Richard R. Veit and Wayne R. Petersen
Drawings by Barry Van Dusen.
Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1993
A
Season in Utopia
By Doris M. Curtis
Russell & Russell, 1971 (out of print)
Newton Public Library: 335.973 C94S 1961
This book is a history of Brook
Farm.
The
Blithedale Romance
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
first published in 1852; many current editions
This book is set in a utopian community and
was written after Hawthorne lived at Brook
Farm.
Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia
By Sterling Delano
Belknap Press, 2004
A recently published history of Brook Farm. Booklist called it "a compelling look at the history of progressive social movements in America and the failure of one of the best-known experiments."
Echoes
in Hemlock Gorge
Poems by Douglas Worth
Higganum Hill Books, 2003
The publisher's blurb says this:
This book of poetry ranges back through history
to the 1600s and pleads with mankind to attend to the massive damage
technological advancement is bringing to the biosphere. The poems
warn that blindness to these changes, which wantonly destroy that
understructure upon which life depends, will make the future of
man a wasteland and a devastation. A single locale, Hemlock
Gorge, a bypassed island of natural beauty immersed in the head-on
rush of modern technological culture, is used to illustrate these
dangers.
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