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Broderick and Broderick-Olsen properties |
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The Broderick property and Broderick-Olsen property contain a total of 86 acres of land in the Town of Grafton, adjoining the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center on the west. A network of two miles of marked trails connect to trails on the Center property. The public are permitted on this property subject to the rules and regulations of the Dyken Pond Center. In addition, horses and mountain bikes are not permitted.
Teal Brook flows through this property and a vernal pool, red maple-hardwood swamp, and part of a spruce-fir swamp are found here as well. Most of the land is covered with "northern" type forest, including some spruce-northern hardwood forest and spruce flats, forest types known primarily from the Adirondacks. A spring is found on the property as well as a cistern and an abandoned family cemetery dating from the early 1800s. The most unusual plants found on this property are the Rattlesnake-plantain, Goodyera tesselata and the Bog aster, Aster nemoralis.



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