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[Name]: Reedy Meadow was Lynnfield Marsh
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[Date]: June 1972
[Location]: Between Wakefield and South Lynnfield
[County]: Essex
[Ownership]: municipal,
[Description]: The largest freshwater cattail marsh in Massachusetts. The area preserves the habitat requirements of many bird species and serves as a breeding ground for the king rail and least bittern, rare species in the region. -
[Name]: Gay Head Cliffs
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[Date]: October 1975
[Location]: Aquinnah41°20′04″N 70°47′45″W / 41.334444°N 70.795833°W / 41.334444; -70.795833 (Gay Head Cliffs)
[County]: Dukes
[Ownership]: native lands (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head)
[Description]: An unusual cross section of Raritan and Magothy sediments of Cretaceous age and fossil-bearing sands of Miocene and either Pliocene or Pleistocene ages that rise as much as 150 feet (46 m) above sea level, resting on the continental shelf and detached from the mainland. The center of Wampanoag native culture. -
[Name]: Fannie Stebbins Refuge
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[Date]: June 1972
[Location]: Longmeadow42°02′22″N 72°36′09″W / 42.039468°N 72.602584°W / 42.039468; -72.602584 (Fannie Stebbins Refuge)
[County]: Hampden
[Ownership]: municipal
[Description]: The area contains the only sizeable example of Connecticut River flood plain under preservation, exhibiting many successional stages including upland and flood plain forest, swamp, marsh, ponds, and meadows. -
[Name]: Cold River Virgin Forest
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[Date]: April 1980
[Location]: Mohawk Trail State Forest42°38′48″N 72°56′47″W / 42.646667°N 72.946389°W / 42.646667; -72.946389 (Cold River Virgin Forest)
[County]: Berkshire, Franklin
[Ownership]: state
[Description]: Probably the only virgin hemlock-northern hardwood forest in New England, with the hemlocks and sugar maples exceeding 400 years in age. -
[Name]: Muskeget Island
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[Date]: April 1980
[Location]: west of Tuckernuck and Nantucket Islands41°20′07″N 70°18′15″W / 41.335278°N 70.304167°W / 41.335278; -70.304167 (Muskeget Island)
[County]: Nantucket
[Ownership]: municipal, private
[Description]: The only known locality where the Muskeget beach vole is found, and southernmost station where the gray seal breeds. The area supports an enormous nesting population of herring gulls and black-backed gulls. -
[Name]: Acushnet Cedar Swamp
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[Date]: June 1972
[Location]: New Bedford41°41′32″N 70°57′35″W / 41.692222°N 70.959722°W / 41.692222; -70.959722 (Acushnet Cedar Swamp)
[County]: Bristol
[Ownership]: state
[Description]: One of the state's largest, wildest and most impenetrable swamps, and an outstanding example of the diversity of conditions and species in the glaciated section of the oak-chestnut forest.
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