Patriots’ Day Weekend: Help fix our parks and win prizes!
Now that winter is over, get out to a park this Patriot’s Day Weekend, have fun, help fix our parks and maybe win a cash prize from Cambridge4Trees.
Cambridge defies state’s ‘Sunshine Law’ order around releasing documents on park and trees
The city was ordered by the state to release documents about Linear Park three separate times but it continues stalling, creating months of delays.
Testify at Cambridge’s Tuesday budget hearings to add money for trees and an Urban Forest plan
If you know that our climate has already changed, then tell city management and your City Council to plant more trees, hire a professional manager to run the Urban Forest Master Plan and stop wasting money on projects that violate it.
Let’s really take care of our parks and trees
Care of our parks is scattered incoherently across many departments. Tell the city manager to put someone in charge who get the cooperation of all.
Almost one in four trees planted by the city die
A look at seven years of data testing suggests nearly 1 out of 4 saplings experienced “infant mortality” and died. The city should make three easy fixes immediately.
New tree canopy report tells advocates, ‘Move along, nothing to see here’
A tree advocate’s analysis of a city tree canopy assessment says its findings defy common sense and readjust data to paint a better outcome for Cambridge greenery.
Private developer cuts down trees in public park
New tree loss in Linear Park after this summer’s massive losses in Danehy Park are the result of historic top-level mismanagement. The system needs fixing.
Tree rally in Danehy Park: Brownsberger speaks, MIT collaborates for greenery and city should too
More than 60 people gathered in Danehy Park on Tuesday to learn how to help stop tree loss in Cambridge and hear longtime environmental supporter state Sen. Will Brownsberger give an update on current climate change mitigation efforts.
City failed to protect trees in Danehy Park
A visit to Danehy Park in mid-August found 108 trees we categorized in a range from “poor” to “dead.” Of them, 87 were mature and classified as “significant trees” by city law.
How can we protect our crucial ‘urban forest’ when we don’t know why trees are cut down?
The city’s consultants will report some initial data Thursday to the Urban Forest Master Plan Task Force. What will not be included are the hundreds of mature trees cut down just this year and the hundreds more planned to be cut down.
