Preservation Campaigns | Friends of the Blue Hills

Blue Hills Resource Management Plan

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...

Protecting Wetlands: Blue Hills Reservoir

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...

Demonstrating to Candidates that their Constituents Care about the Blue Hills

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...

Why is the Incidence of Lyme Disease Increasing?

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...

Cell Tower: Milton

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...

Route 95-128 Bridge Project

by Friends of the Blue Hills - Admin | Jan 1, 2010 | Preservation Campaigns

Posted April 2002 ; Updated January 2010 FBH is closely following the progress for the planned reconstruction of the Route 95/128 bridge over the Neponset River by the Massachusetts Highway Department (MHD). MHD recently submitted a Notice of Project Change as part of...