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Photograph © Tyler Stone (2007)

Photograph © Tyler Stone (2007)

Photograph © Tyler Stone (2007)

The beautiful Forbes wetlands, which will soon be laid to concrete in order to build unwanted and unnecessary town home additions. The City of Cambridge should have chosen to protect the nearly 1000 acres of natural habitat and wetlands, instead of negotiating a mere $8,850 on the private market for all that land! Making it easy for corporate development firms to obtain and control the fate of the wetlands, rather than the people who wished to save it.

Photograph taken in Forbes wetlands, Hespeler, Ontario, Canada.

Photograph © Tyler Stone (2007)

The name serviceberry comes from the similarity of the fruit to the related European Service Tree, Sorbus domestica, a name that in turn is derived via the French sorbier from the Latin name for the tree sorbus, recorded by Pliny the Elder. A widespread folk etymology states that plant's flowering time signaled to early American pioneers that the ground had thawed enough in spring for the burial of the winter's dead.

Photograph © Tyler Stone (2007)