by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jul 28, 2012 | Preservation Campaigns
A canopy tour proposal has been approved by the Quincy City Council. This approval starts a process with the City of Quincy and the Department of Conservation and Recreation to review the proposal and evaluate the environmental impacts and its affect on current...
by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jul 1, 2012 | Preservation Campaigns
Posted July, 2012 In 2011, Friends of the Blue Hills collaborated with the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to make sure all park visitors and people who care about the park could participate in setting priorities for maintenance, repair and...
by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jun 4, 2012 | Preservation Campaigns
In 2003 the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority began developing plans to convert the eastern half of the Blue Hills Reservoir into two 10 million gallon buried drinking water storage tanks. The reservoir, built in the 1950’s had been inactive as a public...
by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jun 4, 2012 | Preservation Campaigns
As part of our continuing efforts to keep our members informed and our political leaders responsive, Friends of the Blue Hills held a forum for candidates running in 2010 for the position of State Senate. About 100 Blue Hills advocates attended the forum to meet...
by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Apr 13, 2012 | Preservation Campaigns
One reason for the dramatic increase in Lyme disease is that we’ve created ideal habitat for deer; forests like the Blue Hills are crisscrossed with roads and spotted with houses, creating ‘edge habitat’ where deer thrive. Unfortunately, we’ve also removed many of...
by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Mar 1, 2010 | Preservation Campaigns
Updated March, 2010 Milton Zoning Board Votes to Deny Cell Tower: Progress that you can’t see During the summer of 2009, Green Mountain Communications (GMC) of New Hampshire proposed building a 140-foot cell tower on the triangular parcel of land on the...
