October 31, 2024 By The Trustees
As part of a Landscape Improvement Project at World’s End this fall, The Trustees have received a grant from the National Park Service to renovate over a mile and a half of carriage roads, remove dead and declining trees, and renew the canopy throughout the property by planting over 140 trees. Replacement trees, like Tulip, Sweetbirch, Silver Linden, and Magnolia, have been chosen to improve species diversity and provide climate resiliency as temperatures rise.
The World’s End carriage roads are a key feature of the Olmstead-designed landscape and are primary visitor pathways throughout the property. With increasingly violent weather events caused by climate change, the renovations improve capacity for storm water by re-grading roadside swales and replacing drainage pipes. Sections of the roadway have also been re-
surfaced with dense graded gravel which provides visitors with an improved walking surface. Senior Regional Stewardship Manager, Wayne Ciullo, who has cared for the landscape at World’s End for the last nine years, says, "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.”
