Preservation Campaigns | Friends of the Blue Hills

Hotel on Park Land? Not Happening!

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

Proposal to build a hotel on Little Blue Hill conservation land: thwarted! 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,...

Cleaning the Park by Updating the Bottle Bill

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jul 10, 2014 | Preservation Campaigns

The Friends of the Blue Hills worked with a statewide coalition to update the state bottle bill. Updating the bottle bill would have increased recycling and would have helped clean up the Blue Hills – and all our parks. Unfortunately, despite a statewide effort of...

Advocating for Park Resources

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jul 9, 2014 | Preservation Campaigns

The Friends of the Blue Hills is part of a statewide coalition of environmental groups called the Environmental Collaborative. As part of this coalition, we advocate for statewide policies that help the Blue Hills, such as increased funding for environmental...

Healthy Forests; Healthy People

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jul 3, 2014 | Preservation Campaigns

Updated October 16, 2015 The Friends of the Blue Hills is working to help protect you and your family from a growing problem that faces our community: more and more people are getting sick with Lyme disease. Through our Healthy Forests; Healthy People campaign we are...

Protecting Wetlands in Fowl Meadow from Development

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jul 3, 2014 | Preservation Campaigns

A private company proposed building 276 housing units right next to the portion of the Blue Hills called Fowl Meadow on Brush Hill Road in Milton. The five-story buildings would have severely damaged the sensitive wetland habitat in Fowl Meadow. We are exceedingly...

Balancing Recreational Use with Environmental Concerns: Canopy Tour in the Quarries

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...