Lyman Reserve
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Lyman Reserve
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| location | Massachusetts , United States | |
| surface | 85 ha | |
| Geographical location | 41 ° 46 ' N , 70 ° 38' W | |
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| Setup date | 2001 | |
| administration | The Trustees of Reservations | |
Lyman Reserve is a 210 acres (0.8 km² ) nature reserve in the urban areas of Bourne , Plymouth and Wareham in the state of Massachusetts in the United States , administered by The Trustees of Reservations .
history
The Red Brook , which flows through the area, is colored reddish by the iron-bearing rock at its source and has been used by humans for almost 2000 years. Archaeological research has shown that there about 1,800 years, important settlements of the Wampanoag - Indians were. They used clay saucepans and made sharp stone blades that they used for hunting marine and wildlife.
The European settlers, on the other hand, used the land far more intensively. Pitch pines were made into tar , and herrings and alewife were caught in large quantities. Iron ore was dug in the swamps and the excavation area was then planted with cranberries . Last in the 1830s, Uriah Nickerson settled in the area, who built the Lyman House , which can still be visited today, in the 1840s .
However, the name of the house and sanctuary goes back to Theodore Lyman , who visited the area in 1867 for the Massachusetts Board of Inland Fisheries . Over the next 30 years, he gradually bought lots along the Red Brook from its source to its estuary until his property finally covered 638 acres (2.6 km²). His family used the area as a fishing area for six generations and in 2001 gave it to the Trustees of Reservations to protect it permanently.
Lyman's legacy includes what is now the Red Brook Reserve , which is divided into 210 acres (0.8 km²) by the Trustees and 428 acres (1.7 km²) owned by the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife is located.
Protected area
The reserve is located on the to Buzzards Bay belonging Buttermilk Bay ( Buttermilk Bay ) at the mouth of 4.5 mi (7.2 km ) long Red Brook . It is particularly popular with anglers and is particularly used for fly fishing . However, due to the protection regulations, every caught fish must be released into the wild.
The river flows from White Island Pond into Buttermilk Bay and is the ecological, cultural and scenic unique selling point of the reserve. The Red Brook is one of the few rivers in Massachusetts that has migratory fish , making it one of the last remaining natural trout fishing opportunities in the eastern United States .
In addition to the Red Brook, the sanctuary has wetlands , forests, a sandy beach and a stretch of coast along the bay. While pitch pines , oaks and bush oaks mainly grow in the forests , red maples mainly thrive in the floodplains . The varied landscape provides a habitat for a variety of plants and animals, some of which are rare.
A 1.5 mi (2.4 km) long circular hiking trail leads through the reserve.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Property History. (No longer available online.) The Trustees of Reservations , archived from the original on February 13, 2014 ; accessed on February 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ About Lyman Reserve. (No longer available online.) The Trustees of Reservations , archived from the original on February 13, 2014 ; accessed on February 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
