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Updates to Ells biodiversity bibliography through Apr. 2, 2004.

The following new items have been incorporated in the web version of the bibliography. They are in addition to those in the printed version. The URL of the full bibliography is <http://homepage.mac.com/sfe/henry/biodiv_bib/index.html>.

Sec. 1, page 10. Cook, H.O. [Mass. Chief Forester]. 1950. "Forest conditions." Appendix in Report of the Sudbury Valley Commission relative to the Sudbury River and its environs under chapter 34 of the Resolves of 1949 of the General Court [Legislature] of Massachusetts, (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1950) p. 120-22. (A summary of 1925 forest survey.)

Sec. 1, page 10: Update to Davis, Steven C. "Ecological analysis of the White Pond Watershed..." This Davis item may be the report that is described in an article in Concord Journal of Nov. 2, 1972, though Steve Davis's name is not mentioned in the Journal. The article was written by Gerald Friedman, chair of the Concord Redevelopment Authority and describes a study done for the town by "Ecosystems of Wellesley."  The article apparently quotes the "Findings & Recommendations" sections of the report.

Sec. 1, page 10: Add Dame, L. L. and F. S. Collins. 1888. Flora of Middlesex Country, Massachusetts (Malden: Middlesex Institute) incorporates, among other local references, the species introduced to Concord by Minot Pratt, "an enthusiastic botanist [who] throughout a period of forty years sought to naturalize within the limits of Concord plants from all section of the United States," and discusses introduced species in general. Includes too-small "A Topographical Reference Map of Middlesex Country" (1885) by Edward P. Adams, showing ponds, swamps, etc. [At Lincoln PL Hist. Room 581.974.] [Added April 2, 2004.]

Sec. 1, page 11. Amend Eaton (1947) to reflect that it was also published as an appendix in Report of the Sudbury Valley Commission relative to the Sudbury River and its environs under chapter 34 of the Resolves of 1949 of the General Court [Legislature] of Massachusetts, (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1950), page 97-105.

Sec. 1, page 12. Add: Eaton, Richard J. and Ludlow Griscom. n.d. "Potomogeton panormitanus in the Sudbury River." Rhodora 36:312-313.

Sec. 1, page 13. Add: Forman, Richard T.T. et al. 2002. "Road traffic and nearby grassland bird patterns in a suburbanizing landscape." Environmental Management, 26(6); 782-800. Species behavior along Route 2 corridor, which bisects the valley.

Sec. 1, page 14. Add: Bulletin citation: Griscom, Ludlow. n.d. "Massachusetts Rails." Bulletin of the Massachusetts Audubon Society 28:73-84.

Sec. 1, page 15. Add: Hardy, Christopher (Mass. Audubon). 1998. "Swamp things: a journey through Gowing's Swamp," The Concord Journal, Nov. 5, 1998. A naturalist's interesting description of the swamp.

Sec. 1, page 15. Add to Hemond (1980) and Hemond (1983): "Copy in CFPL."

Sec. 1, page 15. Add: Hoar, Samuel. 1950. "A fresh-water marsh." An appendix in  Report of the Sudbury Valley Commission relative to the Sudbury River and its environs under chapter 34 of the Resolves of 1949 of the General Court [Legislature] of Massachusetts, (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1950) p. 129-33. Initially appeared in Sept-Oct 1949 issue of Your Field Sports, a publication of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Association. (Very interesting brief land use history of Concord Great Meadows in 20th century before and after the creation of the impoundments.)

Sec. 1, page 18. Add: Mason, C. Russell [exec. dir., Mass. Audubon].1950. "The Importance of Birds in the Sudbury Valley." An appendix in  Report of the Sudbury Valley Commission relative to the Sudbury River and its environs under chapter 34 of the Resolves of 1949 of the General Court [Legislature] of Massachusetts, (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1950) p 133-34 (A generalized supplementary statement.)

Sec. 1, page 19. Allen Morgan's MS journals have been located at Mass. Audubon's facility in Canton, Mass., where they may or may not remain, reports Stephen Johnson of Sudbury Valley Trustees (April 28, 2002).

Sec. 1, page 20. Add: Nightingale, Gordon T., and Winston S. Saville. [Field Agents, Dept. of Conservation.] 1950. "Wildlife Values and Potentials." An appendix in  Report of the Sudbury Valley Commission relative to the Sudbury River and its environs under chapter 34 of the Resolves of 1949 of the General Court [Legislature] of Massachusetts, (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1950) p. 124-28. Interesting supplement.

Sec. 1, page 21. Change author from : ------. 2001. "A Quadding 2000 Diary." Bird Observer, 29(1): 15-21. to: Rines, Marjorie. 2001. "A Quadding 2000 Diary." ... etc.

Sec. 1, page 21. Add: Rines, Marjorie. 2002. "Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge." Bird Observer, 30(6): 385-6. Personal appreciation of birding GMNWR.

Sec. 1, page 22. Add: Stroud, Richard A. [Aquatic biologist, Dept. of  Conservation]. 1950. "Fish populations." An appendix in  Report of the Sudbury Valley Commission relative to the Sudbury River and its environs under chapter 34 of the Resolves of 1949 of the General Court [Legislature] of Massachusetts, (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1950) p. 122-24 (A generalized supplementary statement. Very general. Article suggests that agency knew nothing specific about the fish conditions at that time, which is understandable for this warm-water fishery.)

Sec. 1,  page 23. Add: US Department of Defense and Massachusetts Audubon Society (Ronald Lockwood?). No date (ca. 1998). "Checklist of  Birds, Hanscom Air Force Base. Department of Defense Partners in Flight." Unpaginated. (Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center.) Posted at. <http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/chekbird/r5/Hanscom.htm> (Version 18JUL00.)

Sec. 1, page 24. Add: US Fish and Wildlife Service. [No date.] "Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Concord Unit--Dike Trail." Map and basic wildlife information. 2 pp.

Sec. 1, page 24. Add: US Fish and Wildlife Service. 2001. "Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge." Pamphlet with map.

Sec. 1, page 24. Add: US Fish and Wildlife Service. 2003. Eastern Mass. National Wildlife Refuge Complex Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment [incl. Great Meadows NWR] . Ca. 440 p.  Plus Executive Summary & CD. Proposed management plan until year 2019, includes status of monitoring, and species lists in App. F for birds, butterflies, invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and plants.

Sec. 1, page 25. Add: Walker, Mary M. 1997. "Plants in Bloom." Illustrated monthly series in web-zine Concord Magazine: "April" at <concordma.com/features/apr97.html>. "May" at <.../dogwood.html>. "Mid-June" at <.../plant.html>. "Mid-July" at <.../plant2.html>. "Early September" at <.../plant3.html>. "October's Trees" at <.../octtrees.html>.

Sec. 1, page 25. Add: Walker, Mary M. 2003. "History of the New England Wildflower Society Herbarium." 2 pp. MS on file at New England Wildflower Society Library. The herbarium collection consisting of between 3000-4000 specimens was started ca. 1973 at the MCZ's Concord Field Station. It was maintained there, with help of volunteers, until in 1998 the Field Station (now mainly devoted to animal physiology studies at the lab in Bedford) stated it no longer wanted the herbarium. The collection is now widely used in classes at NEWFS, and the teaching purpose which the original curators at CFS had in mind has finally been fully realized, but elsewhere.

Sec. 1, page 25. Add: Walton, Richard K. 1985-1998. Birds of Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Massachusetts. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Unpaginated. (Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center) Posted at <http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/chekbird/r5/meadows.htm>  (Version 22MAY98)

Estabrook Woods

Sec. 2, page 27. Re Abrahamson (1973). To supplement information on this herbarium, see Sec. 1, page 25. Walker, Mary M. 2003. "History of the New England Wild Flower Society Herbarium." 2 pp. MS on file at New England Wildflower Society Library.

Walden Pond and Walden Woods

Sec. 3,  page 33. Add: Brain, J. Walter. 1993. "The Glacial Channel at [Jacob] Baker Farm in Lincoln, Massachusetts." Typescript, 3 pp. The geology, plants and birds of a glacial meltwater breakout channel between the Flint Pond area and Baker Farm. Copy at Lincoln conservation office in Isis Fund CR file. See below.

Sec. 3, page 33. Add: Brain, J. Walter. 1994. "Lincoln's Jacob Baker Farm has 'glacial' link to Thoreau legacy." (Brain prefers the title "Thoreau's Beech Spring Still Flows in Walden Woods' Jacob Baker Farm.")  Concord Journal and  Lincoln Journal, July 7, 1994. Reprinted in Thoreau Society Bulletin 211 (spring-summer 1995). (The physiography, natural history, and historic significance of Thoreau's Beech Spring, the Beech Grove, and the glacial meltwater channel east of Pine Hill.) See above.

Sec. 3, page 33. Add: Brain, J. Walter (2003). "The Lure of Grape Cliff," CLCT Newsletter (Concord Land Conservation Trust) (Winter 2003) p. 3-4. A gentle exploration of a little-frequented portion of the Sudbury River frontage in Walden Woods, with careful identification of predominant species in different habitats.

Sec. 3, page 34. Friescz and Colman (2001). The document number should be WRIR 01-4153, not 01-4133.

Sec. 3, page 34. Goddard-Taylor, Gayle. (2002). "All the world in a gram of soil: what you see in the soil isn't half the story." Sanctuary, 42 (1, autumn): 6-7. Non-technical description of interactions of fungi, forest, and soil, purportedly at DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA (also known as Thoreau's "Three Friends Hill" ).

Sec. 3, page 34. Add: Hales, John G. 1819. "A Map of Boston and Its Vicinity..." This may be the earliest documentation of of the extent of the vegetated Walden Woods in post-colonial period. These would have been the woods of Emerson's and Thoreau's earliest memory. (At NEHGS, State Library (Special Collections), and Amherst College.)

Sec. 3, page 36. Stewart, Melissa. (2002). "A different sort of salamander: unlike most animals, marbled salamanders live life in reverse." Sanctuary, 42 (1, autumn): 16-17. Non-technical description of life cycle of marbled salamander, purportedly in vicinity of Walden Pond.

Sec. 3, page 36. Add: US National Park Service (2002). Walden Pond and Woods, Special Resource Study: Reconnaissance Survey. (Boston: NPS Boston Support office, Sept. 2002) 56 pp. Accepts definition of Walden Woods as "a distinct 2,680-acre ecosystem and cultural landscape, recognized and celebrated by Thoreau, as described by Blanding and Schofield. Its underlying geology permits definition of the Woods with unusual clarity." The study concludes that Walden Woods is of national significance under four natural history themes (landforms of the present, geologic history, land ecosystems, and aquatic ecosystems) and under six historical themes. Thus, it meets criteria for inclusion in the national park system but for lack of support by local governments and for difficulties of land acquisition. For these reasons, no further NPS action is proposed.

Sec. 3, page 36. Re Walker, Eugene H. 1971. A portion of "Walden's Way Revealed" is at the web-zine Concord Magazine  <www.concordma.com/magazine/july1998/walden.html>.

Sec. 3, page 36. Wood, Albert E., surveyor. 1895. "Plan of Walden Woods...." Edmund Schofield in e-mails says he followed up on a clue Richard O'Connor provided and went to Carlisle, where he found the map rolled up in the office there. He said he very probably never would have known to look in Carlisle for the map had Mr. O'Connor not told him what he knew.