Virtual Tours
Experience Greenbelt Reservations & Programs
Learn about Ospreys, vernal pools, beavers, pollinators, sea level rise, and Greenbelt’s climate partnerships. Take a virtual tour with drone video, photographs, and the history of our properties.
Sea Level Rise & Coastal Flooding
Over the past 50 years, Essex County has experienced 16 declared flood events, the most of any county in Massachusetts.
Climate Partnerships
To maximize our efforts, Greenbelt partners with agencies and environmental organizations who are also actively working on climate change issues.
Osprey Program
Greenbelt monitoring Osprey activity north of Boston almost 20 years ago. To date, more than 115 individual nesting sites have been documented, many located on wooden platforms installed by Greenbelt, others on buildings, utility poles, channel markers, and in trees.
Castle Neck River Reservation
The 32-acre reservation in Ipswich features an all-access trail that leads to sweeping vistas from the scenic viewpoint.
Pollinators
Land conservation is a powerful way to support pollinators. Maintaining open space and protecting it from development ensures pollinators have a place to nest, feed, and thrive.
Beavers in Essex County
Beaver activity is beneficial to the ecosystem. Beaver dams can act as natural filters for the water flowing through them, improving water quality in the streams and larger bodies of water downstream.
Allyn Cox Reservation
The Cox Reservation in Essex is nestled within The Great Marsh, New England’s largest salt marsh ecosystem.
The Importance of Vernal Pools
They may look like big puddles, but the seasonal pools of water that fill with snowmelt, rain, and spring’s rising groundwater play an almost magical role in the cycles of life.
Cox Reservation Resilience Planning
As our climate is rapidly changing and sea levels are rising, the Cox Reservation faces many threats; the worst being flooding.