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Serving as a resource to help strengthen the ability of friends groups to better protect and enhance Massachusetts’ forests and urban parks.

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Massachusetts forests in need of friends

Critical issues regarding forests and parklands in Massachusetts

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Campaign to stop illegal off-road vehicles from destroying our forests

Report from the Massachusetts Forest and Park Friends Network Meeting at Union Station on October 25, 2008

Workshop Reports from the Partners in Parks Conference, June 2007

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Photo: Mike Ryan

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks—John Muir

 

 

The report from the Massachusetts Forest and Park Friends Network Meeting at Union Station on October 25, 2008 is complete! Click here to view.

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Friends Network Facilitator Mike Ryan introducing the Friends Network concept at the first meeting of the Friends Network, Oct. 25, 2008.  

Anne Gobi, State Representative 5th District, Worcester, discussing the Friends Network with Facilitators, Mike Toomey, Ellen Arnold and Mike Ryan before addressing the group.

The Friends Network would like to thank Lawrence Adams, Executive Director, Central Mass Regional Planning Commission (CMRPC) for lending the Friends Network the lovely and spacious CMRPC offices at Union Station, Worcester; Heidi Ricci, Mass Audubon, for assistance in organizing the meeting; and Trish Settles, CMRPC, for her aid in making the meeting run smoothly. You can visit the CMRPC web site at http://www.cmrpc.org/.

 

Please visit the Critical Issues page for a list issues affecting forests and parks in MA. Click here.

You are invited to join the Yahoo Group, Parks Forests Friends, where friends groups discuss issues affecting forests and parklands statewide.