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The Bureau of State Parks and Recreation division of Department of Conservation and Recreation (Massachusetts) (DCR) is responsible for the maintenance and management of over 450,000 acres (1,820 sq km) of privately and state-owned forests and parks, nearly 10% of the Commonwealth's total land mass. Within the lands managed by the Bureau of ...
The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, situated in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. It is best known for its parks and parkways. The DCR's mission is "To protect, promote and enhance our common wealth of natural, cultural and ...
The development of the state's heritage parks program began with the allocation of $35 million in 1978 for the creation of eight urban parks throughout Massachusetts. The program's aim was to create quality urban space, celebrate the communities' cultural heritage, and stimulate private economic investment.
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The open spaces of Boston in 1892 and 1902 compared in an illustration from a biography of Charles Eliot. The improvement of areas of undeveloped land, detrimental development, and polluted land in and around Boston for a system of interconnected parks was first conceived and promoted by landscape architects Charles Eliot and Warren H. Manning, as well as Sylvester Baxter, a Boston newspaper ...
Beaver Brook Reservation is a public recreation area covering 303 acres (123 ha) on the dividing line between the town of Belmont and the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. The state park is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation .
The state acquired 100 acres (40 ha) of the ACEC to create the state park in 1991. [4] In its earlier days, the harbor was a busy loading spot for ships taking timber to Boston and for local fishing. [5] The park's reproduction colonial farmstead/tavern property is part of the Department of Conservation and Recreation's Historic Curatorship ...
Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "State agencies of Massachusetts" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.