• Lush vegetation on the top of Spectacle Island's North drumlin dominates the foreground. Boston's skyline can be seen in the distance. The park's logo with tag line minutes away, worlds apart empashises the stark contrast between the city and islands.

    Boston Harbor Islands

    National Recreation Area Massachusetts

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  • Ruins of Julia Arthur's summer mansion on Calf Island. (Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation Boston Harbor Islands Cultural Landscape Report.)
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Milkweed Beetle

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area has undertaken an All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) in order to catalogue and research all life in the park, starting with the invertebrates that make the islands their home. More...