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Article: Comeback for the Boston Harbor Islands.(volunteer group restores natural vegetation on islands in harbor of Boston, Massachusetts)
- Article from:
- Children's Digest
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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Do you know what happens to an island if people bully it for many years, cutting down the trees so cattle can graze or shoving the soil around with construction equipment? The natural forest cycle completely changes! After all the mistreatment, many trees and plants disappear, and the island becomes bleak and barren.
This is what happened to the islands in the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts.
About 300 years ago, the thirty Boston Harbor Islands were forested with tall trees and diverse plant life. But that changed when the first settlers from Europe arrived. The colonists did not respect the islands' natural state. Farmers cut down the big trees to make ...