This fall, as part of an extensive Landscape Improvement Project, The Trustees have secured a National Park Service grant to enhance World’s End, focusing on its historic carriage roads and tree canopy. Plans include renovating more than a mile and a half of carriage roads, removing deteriorating trees, and renewing the canopy by planting over 140 new trees. Selected species like Tulip, Sweet Birch, Silver Linden, and Magnolia are aimed at boosting diversity and building resilience against rising temperatures.
World’s End’s carriage roads, integral to the Olmsted-designed landscape, serve as primary pathways for visitors exploring the property. To better handle stormwater amid increasingly severe weather linked to climate change, the project includes re-grading roadside swales and replacing drainage pipes. Additionally, dense-graded gravel has been added to sections of the roads, improving the surface for walkers.
Senior Regional Stewardship Manager Wayne Ciullo, who has overseen World’s End for nine years, expressed pride in the project’s lasting impact. Reflecting on his work, he said, “When I think that my three-year-old daughter Clara will bring her grandchildren to see these trees in sixty or seventy years, it makes me enormously proud of our work. This is my legacy.”
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