MA NFC's Work on Cold Spring Brook Recognized by Local Stewards...

MA NFC board member Jeff Moore with an American eel captured in Cold Spring Brook in Cold Spring Park…

“Thanks to the work of Native Fish Coalition (NFC), we now know that native golden shiners and American eels, as well as frogs and ducks, call [Cold Spring Brook] home...”

NFC has been working at Cold Spring Brook in Cold Spring Park in Newton, Massachusetts, for more than a year. Long thought to be fishless, and notably altered and badly degraded, NFC was able to confirm the presence of wild native golden shiner and American eel.

The result of our efforts was an extensive status report, and a series of short-term and long-term recommendations. Some of those recommendations are now coming to fruiting thanks to support from Friends of Cold Spring Park and Newton Conservators.

“NFC won the Charles Johnson Maynard Award from Newton Conservators earlier this month for their outstanding work helping to improve the health of Newton streams...”

Wooden debris accumulated in Cold Spring Brook over the years…