Founded in 2002, the Northeast Wilderness Trust conserves forever-wild landscapes for nature and people across New England and the Adirondacks. The Wilderness Trust owns Wilderness Preserves and Sanctuaries, and also protects land through legal means such as conservation easements. The organization currently safeguards more than 100,000 acres of wildlands in six states.

Northeast Wilderness Trust

Learn more about Muddy Pond Wilderness Preserve here. Located in Kingston, MA, about 30 minutes south of Boston, Muddy Pond is a rare, undeveloped Coastal Plain Pond surrounded by Atlantic Pine Barrens protected as forever-wild by Northeast Wilderness Trust. In this rewilding photopoint, an extension of Muddy Pond was once converted to a cranberry bog after European settlement. Today, it is returning to a natural state, and the water fluctuates as the Coastal Plain Pond rises and falls in accordance with rainfall and drought. Your photos help tell the story of seasonal changes in this dynamic ecosystem as well as documenting nature returning to wilderness in real time.

Muddy Pond Wilderness Preserve

Learn more about Alder Stream Wilderness Preserve here. 

This meadow, adjacent to the Preserve's parking area, was formerly a town sand and salt site. With time, it is slowly rewilding and will eventually become a forest once again. In 2019 and 2020, Northeast Wilderness Trust added berms and mulch and planted native shrubs and flowers to jump-start the reforestation process.

Alder Stream Wilderness Preserve

Learn more about Eagle Mountain Wilderness Preserve here. 

Here you'll find one of several wetlands at Eagle Mountain Wilderness Preserve. This small pond is actively changed by beavers. Beavers are ecosystem engineers whose dams create conditions for a diversity of plant, insect, and bird life to thrive. Yet because their activities often damage or inconvenience human infrastructure, they can often be removed or killed. Here at Eagle Mountain, beavers are free to engineer this ecosystem as they please.

Eagle Mountain Wilderness Preserve

Learn more about Binney Hill Wilderness Preserve here.
 
This rewilding meadow was a former log landing. After planting a few trees and wildflower seeds in 2019, the meadow has a jump-start on its way to becoming forested again. The meadow lies within the southern portion of a 1,963-acre wilderness protected by Northeast Wilderness Trust. Every acre of forest within this block will someday be an ancient or old-growth forest for future generations of people and wildlife. Watch the landscape change over time as nature's dance unfolds!

Northeast Wilderness Trust

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Maine

4 chronologs managed by Northeast Wilderness Trust

Muddy Pond Wilderness Preserve

Binney Hill Wilderness Preserve

Eagle Mountain Wilderness Preserve

Alder Stream Wilderness Preserve

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