Blair Pond is a one-acre clay pit dug tucked in a seven-acre reservation. Now part of the DCR’s Alewife Reservation, CP&GC partnered with the small but mighty Friends of Blair Pond and the DCR to develop a plant survey and planting plan for the site.

Since the 1950s, CP&GC has worked to preserve the last remaining piece of marsh in the Charles River Basin, Hell’s Half Acre, which is now 7-1/2 acres of urban wildland administered by the DCR.

Along with other organizations, CP&GC was instrumental in the completion of a $1.4 million project to restore and improve access at Lowell Memorial Park in Cambridge.

CP&GC has been an avid advocate for keeping the iconic London Plane trees as the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) plans to refresh a one-mile stretch of Memorial Drive.

CP&GC began advocating for Longfellow Park in 2015 as we had concern about existing trees, planting around the poet’s monument, crumbling stone steps, non-working light posts, and lack of benches.