Dan Burgess introduces us to Boston's "urban wilds" - spots of land throughout the city that aim to preserve what's left of Boston from pre-European days:
... Recently, I had the opportunity to spend a day sprucing up an Urban Wild site. Puddingstone Garden is located on a small hill in Roxbury on the corner of Normandy Street and Sea Street, near the Franklin Park Zoo. This Urban Wild is named after the Roxbury Puddingstone rock formations prevalent in the park that literally look like pudding with stones sprinkled throughout. ...
Meanwhile, Fabulously Out There goes for a walk along the Chelsea River Urban Wildlife Area and finds something pretty wild, if not exactly a natural, pre-1620s vista.
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