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Dartmouth Natural Resource Trust (DNRT) preserves and protects Dartmouth's incredible scenic, historic and natural resources. This month, the annual and beautiful yellow and white daffodils will be sprouting at Parson's Reserve, and attracting record numbers of visitors over the next four week period.

The thrust of visitors has nearly tripled recently, and as a result, the DNRT has had to implement new changes, including: a $2 donation per person for non-members, wider paths to hopefully eliminate the trampling of daffodils by people who wander off the narrow paths, prohibiting professional photographers and their equipment and limiting the parking at the Town Landing.

The changes this year also will include additional signage posting information about the new rules and regulations. Daffodils are very fragile flowers as William Wordsworth reminds us, "A host of golden daffodils, beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

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