Preservation Campaigns | Friends of the Blue Hills

New Interpretive Sign in the Blue Hills Reservation Honoring the 1930’s Civilian Conservation Corps

by Friends of the Blue Hills | Jan 21, 2021 | Blog, Preservation Campaigns

Photo by Ryan Hutton/DCR From left, DCR Visitor Services Supervisor Maggi Brown, DCR Ecologist Ale Echandi, State Senator Walter Timility, DCR Commissioner Jim Montgomery, Friends of the Blue Hills Board President Matt Panucci, Friends of the Blue Hills Executive...

Help Protect Skyline Trail Hikers

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog, Preservation Campaigns

Please sign our petition if you care about making the Blue Hills safe and the trails accessible for everyone who wants to hike the Skyline Trail. Anyone who has tried to follow the Skyline Trail across Routes 28 and 138 knows how dangerous it is to cross these...

Action Alert for Trailside, Observatory and all State Parks

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jun 5, 2017 | Blog, Preservation Campaigns

Please take a moment TODAY to make a big difference to the Blue Hills. This week a legislative committee is creating the state budget by comparing the two budgets created by the House and Senate. Significant funding for the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, the Blue Hill...

Action Alert: Call Your Legislator to Support Our Parks

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog, Preservation Campaigns

You can help make sure that our parks – including the Blue Hills – receive the funding that they need. Take Action Please call your legislators and urge them to include the Department of Conservation and Recreation as one of their top budget priorities. To...

Creating a Coalition for a Better Blue Hills

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Mar 19, 2015 | Preservation Campaigns

Historic buildings crumbling, no lease security and inadequate funding… these are the issues that we will work to address with other Blue Hills organizations as part of the new Coalition for a Better Blue Hills. The Friends of the Blue Hills has brought together Blue...

Protecting Conservation Land from a Hotel

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Mar 19, 2015 | Preservation Campaigns

You probably don’t think of a hotel when you think of parkland, but that didn’t stop an individual from proposing to build a hotel on DCR conservation land near Little Blue Hill. Luckily, Friends of the Blue Hills worked with local and state officials to oppose the...