of the Norway maples and other invasive spe- 
cies that we removed, hundreds of native trees 
and shrubs and thousands of ferns and woodland 
groundcovers now provide a valuable habitat for 
the birds, salamanders, and other wildlife resi- 
dents of Mount Auburn. And yes, the magnifi- 
cent stewartia remains as well. I like to think 
that the landscape looks just like “the hill 
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Consecration Dell represents a nearly two-hundred-year-old vision for the naturalistic landscape at Mount Auburn Cemetery. 
PHOTO BY THE AUTHOR; MAP FROM HARVARD MAP COLLECTION, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
and the valley, the still, silent dell, and the deep 
forest” that Joseph Story described so long ago. 
David Barnett was appointed president and CEO of Mount 
Auburn Cemetery in 2008. He retired from that position 
in 2021 confident that the course has been charted for 
a bright and successful future as an active cemetery, a 
historically significant cultural landscape, and a model of 
environmental stewardship. 
