Jane’s Walks 2025: Changing Landscapes – July 18, 2025
Date: July 18, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Meeting Point: Oxen Pond Road Pedestrian Bridge
Changing Landscapes traces the relationship between humans and the Leary’s Brook and Long Pond watershed over time. Throughout this walk, we will examine how development pressures from increased agriculture, housing, and industrialization have exerted influence on the natural landscape, resulting in the channelization and confinement of Leary’s Brook and significant disruption to the area’s wetlands. As climate change increases extreme weather patterns, wetland management can serve as either a buffer or an accelerant of two key threats to urban areas: flood and fire.
This walk is led by Elizabeth Yeoman and Sal Mathews, two urban history and ecology enthusiasts. The walk starts at the Oxen Pond Road Pedestrian Bridge and ends at the Fluvarium parking lot. We have the capacity to transport a small number of participants back to the starting point after the walk if needed – please message us if you’d like a ride! The walk will last approximately 2 hours. Please dress for weather and bring water.
This walk is based on a virtual Jane’s Walk created by Scott Osmond.
Oxen Pond Road Pedestrian Bridge is that the bridge that takes one to The Parkway.
Hi Joseph, yes, it’s the bridge at the end of Oxen Pond Road that connects to Prince Phillip Drive, between Wicklow St. and Thorburn Road. Street parking is available on several of the residential streets on the Oxen Pond Road side. Hope this answers your question!