Initiatives

Blue Hills Resource Management Plan

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...

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Cell Tower: Milton

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 Houghton's...

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Route 95-128 Bridge Project

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...

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I-95/I-93/University Avenue Interchange

Posted October, 2002 ; Updated January, 2010 FBH Comments on Major Highway Redesign Project Friends of the Blue Hills has been working with MassHighway on the major redesign of the I-95/I-93/University Avenue interchange and on October 11, 2002 submitted comments on...

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Lantana Land Swap: Anatomy of a Giveaway

Updated April, 2009 The Lantana Land Swap is a scheme intended to convey over three acres of undisturbed Blue Hills Reservation woodlands on High St. in Randolph to a commercial abutter for a 408-space parking lot. Background FBH has vigorously questioned this plan...

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Indian Line Farm

Updated April, 2009 Indian Line Farm, a 44-acre parcel of land within the Blue Hills Reservation, is a historic landscape with enormous cultural and natural value. Yet the open fields and woodlands of this parcel remain at particular risk of development. The Farm is...

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