Blue Hills Reservation gets bigger

By adamg on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 8:56am

Friends of the Blue Hills reports the state recently bought 57 acres of land between the Blue Hill Country Club and Rte. 138 by the Ponkopoag Golf Club - for $198,000:

In a year or so, when construction of a sewer line is complete, you'll be able to explore a new red maple swamp, open marshland and pine-oak upland.

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Canton

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Blue Hills Reservation

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Comments

Why did the build the highway there?

By langmead on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 10:42pm.

This would be on the other side of the southeast expressway, right? I can imagine years from now someone not knowing the history of it will wonder why they allowed a highway to be built in the middle of a nature reserve.

How so?

By Ron Newman on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 9:09am.

The area shown on the map isn't anywhere near the Southeast Expressway.

The new parcel is on the

By boblothrope on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 7:09pm.

The new parcel is on the south side of Route 128 (technically I-93), and isn't contiguous with the rest of the reservation. See http://www.friendsofthebluehills.org/Images/layout... .

Kinda like they did right on

By alex on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 5:22pm.

Kinda like they did right on the other side of Boston in the Middlesex Fells?