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| Dorchester | Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition 1452 Dorchester Avenue, 4th floor Dorchester, MA 02124 Website: http://dehc.org Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Telephone: 617-474-1478 Description: The Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition (DEHC) is a community-led network dedicated to promoting the environmental, social and economic benefits of living sustainably in Boston's largest and oldest neighborhood. DEHC works with its partners to make Dorchester healthier through improving green space resources, raising awareness of local air quality, advocating for biking and walking amenities, and by encouraging active living. |
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| East Boston | Barbara Bishop Friends of Belle Isle Marsh P.P. Box 575 East Boston, MA 02128 Website: http://www.friendsofbelleislemarsh.org Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Telephone: 617-846-7418 Description: Advocates for the preservation of the last remaining salt marsh in the city of Boston |
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| Jamaica Plain | Arnold Arboretum 125 Arborway Boston, MA 02130 Website: http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/ Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Telephone: 617-384-5209 Description: The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is the oldest public arboretum in North America and one of the world‘s leading centers for the study of plants. Administered by the Office of the Provost of Harvard University and a link in Boston's Emerald Necklace of parks, the Arnold Arboretum provides and support world-class research, horticulture, and education programs that foster the understanding, appreciation, and preservation of trees.  |
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| Jamaica Plain | Sarah Freeman Arborway Coalition Jamaica Plain, MA, MA 02130 Website: http://www.arborway.net/coalition/Welcome.html Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Telephone: 617-276-5093 Description: The Arborway Coalition is a collaboration of JP residents & other interested parties working with City and State agencies and local neighborhood associations to preserve the Arborway as a green multi-use parkway connecting three Emerald Necklace parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted: Jamaica Pond Park, Arnold Arboretum and Franklin Park. Our goal is to improve access to these parks for all users and to keep the parkway clean & green.  |
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| Roxbury | Christine Poff Franklin Park Coalition P.O. Box 302333 Boston, MA 02130 Website: http://www.franklinparkcoalition.org Telephone: 617-442-4141 Description: The Franklin Park Coalition (FPC) advocates for the park, runs year-round programs to bring people into the park, and leads a youth jobs program restoring the park‘s 200 acres of forest. FPC sponsors the Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park summer concert series, runs seasonal volunteer days and park tours, and advocates with the city and the Boston Parks Department for resources and improved management and maintenance. |
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| Back Bay | Shirley Kressel 27 Hereford Street Boston, MA 02115 Website: http://www.shirleykressel.com Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Telephone: 617-421-0835 |
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| Jamaica Plain | Bonnie A Rafuse Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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| Jamaica Plain | Carl Lowenberg |
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| Mattapan | Rodney Bender Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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| Roslindale | Doug Mink Friends of Stony Brook Reservation Roslindale, MA 02131 Website: http://www.masspaths.net/stonybrook/ Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Description: We support the DCR in maintining Boston‘s largest urban forest and the trails and bikepaths through it. We encourage its use by conducting periodic hikes and bike rides through the park. |
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| Roxbury | C.M. Grant |
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| Statewide | Andrea Freeman The Trustees of Reservations Website: http://www.urbanparkadvocates.org Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Telephone: 978-840-4446 x1929 |
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| Statewide | Christopher Timmell Urban Ecology Institute Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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