. Alewife Reservation & Alewife Brook master plan. Wetlands; Wetland conservation. Introduction A. The Need for a Master Plan B. The Setting for the Master Plan C. The Master Planning Process A, .lewife Reservation and the Alewife Brook Parkway are part of the Metropolitan Park System, the first regional park system in the country. Established in 1893, the system today comprises almost 20,000 acres of woodlands, rivers, coastline, wetlands, and urban parklands. The Alewife Brook and its adjacent Parkway are important linear connec- tions within the Metropolitan District Commission's park s
. Alewife Reservation & Alewife Brook master plan. Wetlands; Wetland conservation. Introduction A. The Need for a Master Plan B. The Setting for the Master Plan C. The Master Planning Process A, .lewife Reservation and the Alewife Brook Parkway are part of the Metropolitan Park System, the first regional park system in the country. Established in 1893, the system today comprises almost 20,000 acres of woodlands, rivers, coastline, wetlands, and urban parklands. The Alewife Brook and its adjacent Parkway are important linear connec- tions within the Metropolitan District Commission's park system. Near the end of the 19th century, the visionary landscape architect Charles Eliot planned the Alewife Brook Parkway as one link in his network of car- riageway parks winding their way through the suburbs of Boston. Such carriageways, and later parkways for automobiles, were a synthesis of road and adjacent landscape designed for driving as a leisurely, recreational, and aesthetically enjoyable activity. Increased traffic and other development pressures have obscured the parkland component so that the road now dominates public perception of many historic parkways. The Alewife Reservation, which has existed since the early 20th century, was purchased with the intent to fulfill Eliot's desire to connect the Mystic River with Fresh Pond. The intrinsic ecological value of the Alewife area was not recognized at the time. Today the Reservation is one of Boston's largest urban wilds, a remnant of the Great Swamp that once stretched from Fresh Pond to Spy Pond. This relic of the former expanse of wetlands still provides valuable ecological functions such as wildlife habitat and filtering stormwater runoff. It also ALEWIFE MASTER PLAN m. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bioengineering Group; Mass
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