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Imagine Abenaki hunters quietly stalking a white-tailed
deer as it stops to drink here. For more than 8,000 years
before European settlement, Native Americans lived in
Vermont. Because of lower lake levels, Burton Island
was a peninsula for much of this time. The small marsh here is also undergoing a succession. It is gradually filling in with sediments. Soon, small shrubs and trees will grow here, and the site will no longer be a wetland. Earlier, when the Abenaki occupied this area, the wetland was probably an open pond. |
Vermont State Parks - Burton Island - Trail Head
