Dry Hill

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

Hiking trail in the reserve

Dry Hill is a 206 acre ( 0.8 km ²) large nature reserve around the same, 1,742 ft (531 m) high mountain near the town of New Marlborough, Massachusetts in the United States and is managed by the organization The Trustees of Reservations.

History

It was originally operated on the site of today's Reserve Agriculture, Forestry, and there were marble quarries, where the yield was mainly used for the foundations of local buildings. Recently there was a private school.

The reserve was created in 2000 through a donation to the Trustees, who acquired additional land for sale.

Sanctuary

The system called Dry Hill area consists of rocky peaks and valleys and is part of a larger contiguous forest area, which serves as an important habitat for large mammals as well as many species of forest birds ( here especially the blue back - Warbler ).

Through the Reserve leads a 1.5 mi ( 2.4 km ) long and winds past red maples, hemlock and oak forests. Sealing heathery areas alternate with open land on which to grow among other cultivated blueberries, borage, Uvularia and shade flowers.