Bowen’s Pond — an unhappy neighbor
While Mass Audubon pats itself on the back for helping biodiversity, what does it have to say for the many turtles, amphibians, and aquatic insects brumating under the waters of Bowen’s Pond? The loss of the water as a temperature buffer will subject them to freezing temperatures and death. What becomes of the beavers in the two lodges on the pond? They too have lost the water that moderates the temperature inside their lodges (underwater entrance — water buffers the temperature inside the lodge). They will no longer have a source of winter food, because their underwater log stash is now exposed to the elements.
Reports of large amounts of silty water rushing down Osgood Brook will certainly be detrimental to the native brook trout who reside down near Kentfield Road. Was this really the grand plan? I am disgusted with Mass Audubon, and I am not alone.
Gerda Swedowsky
Wendell