Description
The Natural History of the Cornelia Warren Estate:
Camp Cedar Hill, Girl Scouts of Eastern North America
by Lesley Sneddon
Coming Soon!
Camp Cedar Hill is a portion of the former estate of Cornelia Warren. In keeping with her desire to maintain the land for public benefit, Ms. Warren wished to carry this tradition beyond her life by stating so in her will. After her death, the Trustees of Cedar Hill deeded five parcels of the estate among several beneficiaries, including the Massachusetts Girl Scouts (now the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts). To this day, Cornelia Warren’s legacy of philanthropy and social welfare continue to benefit the residents of Waltham and beyond.
During the summer, there are hundreds of Girl Scouts engaging in daily activities throughout the camp. Despite such intensive use of the camp, the land supports many native trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses, and wildflowers that have formed recognizable plant communities – groups of plants naturally occurring together in the same environmental setting in a repeating pattern across the landscape. This book describes the plant communities found at the camp, and includes photos of the most prominent plants in them, thus providing an approach to learning botany and ecology without overwhelming the budding naturalist.
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