Belle Isle Marsh Reservation
IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape
Landscape of the Belle Isle Marsh Reservation
The area Belle Isle Marsh Reservation is a 152 acre ( approx. 615,000 m²) large state park in Boston's South Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. The park is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.
Description
The boundaries of the protected area include 152 acres about 63 % of the total of 241 acres measured area of the Belle Isle Marsh, the last remaining salt marsh in Boston. At present, from the intense colonization very often came salt marshes along the coast in front of the Massachusetts Bay. In the reserve there are a variety of typical for this landscape plants, fish and shellfish, which is highly rare for a metropolitan area. The park landscape near roads and paths, benches and an observation tower. Part of the Boston Harborwalk also runs through the reserve.
History
The area was once actually an island, and was called next to Belle Isle also Hog's Iceland and later Breeds Iceland. A part of the original island is now Orient Heights.
Recreation and leisure activities
Especially popular are in this reserve hiking, nature observation and study of the local flora and fauna.