BOSTON Globe online article July 2024
Park statistics show that nearly 600,000 people visit
the National Historic Landmark every year since 1962.
Torrential rains that hit in spring and early summer in
2023 and 2024 submerged the beach right up to the
pond's stone retaining wall. Between Memorial Day and
Labor Day, Walden's beach is typically teeming, Coney
Island-style, with visitors.
Walden and the nearby Minute Man National Historical
Site are on the National Trust for Historical Preservation's
list of 11 most endangered sites. It is threatened by an
expansion of Hanscom Field Airport, which could
significantly increase the private jet traffic, leading to
increased noise, vehicular traffic, along with negative
environmental and climate impacts. Walden Pond is a
462 - acre park established in 1970s is more forested in
2024 than it was in 1854. Its famously crystalline waters
are stocked with trout and contain trophy bass. . .
Erosion has become such a problem, wire fencing now
keeps hikers from straying off the main road leading to
around the pond.
Walden's great depth - 102 feet is keeping it keep at bay
the 2 centuries' worth of nutrient-rich sediment now locked
on its bottom . . . Climate change is going to complicate
everything that's happening there; the pond is at risk.
bostonglobe.com/2024/07/22/magazine/at-walden-pond-tensions-can-overtake-tranquility
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