This small wetland and forested upland area is sandwiched between the playing field of a local elementary school and a housing development along Hilburn and Seymour Streets. As a result of these adjacent development projects, a considerable amount of the wetland has been subject to fill and dumping. A fence currently surrounds the site preventing access. The upland portion of the site contains the foundations of a building that once perched above the wetland. As a functioning wetland, this area provides flood storage, water filtration, and wildlife habitat. Although the area is highly degraded and overrun with invasives, native wetland plants, such as cattails, and a decent canopy of oaks, red maple, and elm do persist. Birds extensively utilize the site for nesting and feeding purposes. However, in its present, fenced condition, the wetland provides little benefit to the neighboring community.

The Eldon Street I urban wild is located to the east of the Arnold Arboretum and is roughly bordered by Hazelmere Road, Weld Street, Robken Road, Selwyn Street, and the Eldon Street II Urban Wild. The area is generally surrounded by the backyards of abutters; however, several obscure entrance points do exist into the urban wild. In an area of low topography, the Eldon Street urban wild serves primarily as a catch basin for the area's storm water and is thus dominated by a forested wetland habitat. The area has been overrun by non-native, invasive species, especially multi-flora rose and buckthorn. At one time, a boardwalk permitted entrance into the wetter sections of the wild from Eldon Street. However, the overwhelming presence of multi-flora rose now makes this entry impossible.

The Eldon Street II Urban Wild is located to the east and contiguous with Eldon Street I. The site is bordered by Walter Street, Selwyn Street, and Coniston Road. Like Eldon Street I, this area is surrounded by the backyards of abutters. However, two vacant lots do provide access into the urban wild. Although containing some higher topography than Eldon Street I, this urban wild still serves primarily as a catch basin for the area's storm water, and is dominated by a forested wetland habitat.

Between Farquhar St. and Hewlett St.

St. Michael was founded in 1905 as a perpetual care cemetery. Today it continues to serve Boston families as a non denominational cemetery. St. Michael has now developed an additional 14-acre site along Walk Hill Street and American Legion Highway. This land, consecrated for burial many years ago, includes wooded borders, a flowing brook and a 16-foot-tall shrouded cross that has become our signature piece. Services Offered:

• Traditional below-ground burial.
• Below-ground burial in lawn crypts.
• Below-ground burial of cremated remains in family graves or in a new Cremation Urn Garden.
• Above-ground entombment in our Community Mausoleums.
• Above-ground entombment in family mausoleums.
• Above-ground inurnment of cremated remains in an individual remembrance niche in the new Garden of Peace and Remembrance, and Resurrection Chapel Columbarium