Tag: Department of Environmental Management
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Governor Romney merges the former MDC into a new Department of Conservation and Recreation
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s proposal to eliminate the Metropolitan District Commission has been accepted by the Legislature and signed into law as part of the fiscal Year 2004 budget. However, the Metropolitan Park Commission’s spirit lives on. A new Department of Conservation and Recreation has been created in the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. It…
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Adelgid Update: December, 2000
On November 9, 2000, the Metropolitan District Commission voted to approve an interagency Service Agreement with the Department of Environmental Management to grow the ladybugs that are the natural predators of the hemlock woolly adelgids that are killing the reservation. Dr. Charles Burnham of DEM has made arrangements to grow up a stock of ladybugs…
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State House News: JAPANESE LADYBUGS FLY TO THE RESCUE OF BELEAGUERED HEMLOCK FORESTS
Reprinted with the permission of the author. By Elisabeth J. BeardsleySTATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE, [email protected] STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, SEPT. 12, 2000 The Bay State’s official bug could soon wing to the rescue of one of the state’s favorite native trees. Under a $60,000 pilot program included in this year’s budget, an army of Japanese ladybugs…
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Simply Wonderful News
The Friends’ efforts to save our hemlocks from the woolly adelgid: We have learned that Governor Paul Cellucci’s veto of the $60,000 budget item we requested to grow and release ladybugs to safely combat the adelgids was overridden late on Monday, July 31, 2000 by the State Legislature! This means that the money needed to…
