They paved paradise And put up a parking lot They took all the trees Put ’em in a tree museum And they charged the people A dollar and a half

Conservators Director Mike Clarke took an early-spring paddle around Crystal Lake in a wooden canoe that he built. Watch a video of the trip

In 2018, the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) opened a new $1.5 million footbridge over the Charles River, just upstream from Watertown Dam. The bridge connects the north and

Newton Community Farm is now accepting applications for its high school intern programs: Summer internships are unpaid opportunities for high school age youth to learn about organic and community farming

Online registration is now open for the 58th annual Conservators dinner meeting on Wednesday, May 8th.

The Conservators website has had several different looks over the years. The earliest home page image we can find dates to 2001. Mike Clarke was the website manager. The first

If you subscribe to the Boston Globe, you can help the Conservators by designating us as the recipient of your GRANT voucher.  If enough subscribers choose us, we’ll receive a

The Newton Conservation Commission, with some assistance from the Newton Conservators, has begun a project to greatly improve the mapping and marking of conservation areas in Newton. The project includes

Many years ago, colored blazes were marked on four loop trails that go through portions of Webster Woods and the Hammond Pond Reservation. This map shows the routes of these

In the spring of 2009, a Eurasian teal made a rare visit to Cold Spring park.  Read about the visit in our Summer 2009 newsletter. Click on a photo to

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority owns the Sudbury Aqueduct, which still serves as a backup link in the water supply system for metropolitan Boston. The MWRA is now allowing cities and

The DCR Blue Heron Trail will someday extend from the Charles River Reservation at Watertown Square to Millennium Park in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood. Large portions of the trail are