FBH Newsletter
Current Issue:
July - September 2010: Legislation that would protect the Blue Hills, volunteers learn to track invasive species, cell tower proposed on a conservation restriction
Archive - 2010
April - June: Asian Longhorned Beetle: Keep it out of the Blue Hills! Bird Breeding Atlas; Book review: The End of the Long Summer
January - March: Covered Water Tanks Completed - Opportunities Follow; Welcome new Board members: Hilary Blocker, Deb DaSilva and John Sheehan; Advocacy update: Resource Management Plan, EEA Budget Cuts; The Hard Truth: The Geology of the Blue Hills; Evaluating Biodiversity in the Blue Hills
Archive - 2009
October-December: Senator Joyce at FBH Community Forum; cell tower voted down, Advocacy Committee reports on Blue Hills Resource Management plan; new FBH webpage recommends hikes; and Euonymus alatus... beautiful invader
July-August: Historic Brookwood Farm Barn Dismantled, Carnivorous Plants of Ponkapoag Bog, Some Thoughts on Invasives
April-June: Indian Line Farm, Fighting Purple Loosestrife and other Invasives, Ponkapoag's Flowering Ericads
January-March: A Road Runs Through It, Photo Contest Winners, Houghton's Pond Trail Race
Archive - 2008
October-December: Advocacy updates, Annual Meeting info, The Power of Sphagnum
July-September: Adopt-A-Trail, Photo Contest, Meet Alexandra Echandi
April-June: Renovations at Ponkapoag Dam, Wakefield Estate, Meet Ken Jones
January-March: Adopt-a-Trail Gaining Momentum, Good News on Lantana Land Swap
Archive - 2007
October-December: Reservoir Halved; FBH Resolve Doubled, Wind Turbines Proposed
July-September: Reservoir Destruction, Fires of Spring
April-June: Jeff Dyer on Red Lining the Blue Hills, Encroachment at Ponkapoag Pond
January-March: Irina Kadis on invasive plants, Hugh Stringer on mountain biking
Archive - 2006
October-December: Blue Hills Big Dig, Indian Line Farm
July-September: Randolph votes to pave over Reservation parkland, Pete Jackson: Landscape Architect
April-June: Profile of Mike Vhay, Waiting for walking paths at Quarry Hills, Ayers introduces Reservoir bill
Archive - 2004
October-December: Executive Director Judy Jacobs, Blue Hills place names, Roger Gregg remembered
July-September: Photo Gallery - Flora and Fauna of the Blue Hills, Advocacy Update
April-June: Horses, hikers, and bikes, Interview with DCR Commissioner Kathy Abbott
January-March: Who Founded the Blue Hill Observatory?, Issues Update, Kids Corner
Archive - 2003
November-December: Robert Mussey on hunting wasps, A poem by Iris Gomez
September-October: Endangered Species Protection, Snake Watching, Maggie's Goodbye
July-August: A trip to the Trailside Museum, Blue Hills Bioblitz photos and more!
May-June: Restoring the Neponset River, Pieces of Life
March-April: Will the MDC Survive?, Looking for Sugar, Parks not Parking Lots
January-February: Is the Blue Hills Reservation Protected?, What to do with your Christmas tree
Archive - 2002
November-December: Saving the American Chestnut, Restoring the Ponkapoag Boardwalk
September-October: Reservation Land taken for Lantana Parking Lot, Take a Hike!
July-August: Non-Native Plants and the Blue Hills, Picking the best blueberries, Reservoir update
May-June: Summits of the Blue, Day hiking tips, Meeting with Senator Brian Joyce
March-April: Late winter around the Reservation, Funding crisis at the Trailside Museum
January-February: All about Skijoring, Big Dig dumping at Quarry Hills: an update