Together, we can conserve Crane Ledge Woods - the largest unprotected urban wild remaining in Boston.
Recent Highlights
People’s Forum for Nature-Based Solutions: Wed Oct 18 at 6:00 pm
A widely-inclusive community update meeting and roundtable discussion. We intend this event to help advance our shared Wu Administration community efforts on these critical issues.
Hybrid Meeting!
In person at Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center: 500 Walk Hill St., Mattapan, MA 0212 or MS Teams! Register here.
BPDA Disapproves Proposal TWICE
Read more details on the BLDA’s second decision of disapproval here:
Response from First Disapproval can be read here:
BPDA Disapproves Proposal
On Friday Feb. 3, 2023, the BPDA issued an Adequacy Determination, DISAPPROVING the 990 American Legion development proposal as designed!
This is a conditional decision, and so we have more to do to reach the desired outcome of Full Conservation.
Take Action
Sign the Petition. Currently at 4500+ signatures and growing, so what are you waiting for? Sign your name!
Write to the BPDA. Go here for how.
The June 2022 public comments & letters published with overwhelming support for full conservation: READ HERE
Read about the serious impacts that this development will have on the surrounding neighborhoods.
A Grassroots Environmental Justice Coalition is Born
In response to this imminent threat to our community and local ecology, the Coalition to Save Crane Ledge Woods (the Coalition) - a grassroots-organized group of neighborhood associations, residents and other advocates - rapidly formed and has been growing in size and strength. We are working tirelessly to protect our neighborhoods, which the city of Boston designated Environmental Justice populations due to our already inequitable access to public green space and the disproportionate impacts of climate change we experience. Crane Ledge Woods provides the surrounding community with clean air, protects our homes against increasing and intensifying flooding, shields us from worsening heat island effect, and mitigates climate-related health risks like asthma, among other benefits. As a protected urban wild and public park, under the care of the city’s Conservation Commission and local residents, Crane Ledge Woods could enhance quality of life and environmental equity for our neighborhoods and benefit the entire city!
For decades, a 24-acre forest, known locally as Crane Ledge Woods and designated as an urban wild, has been inaccessible and mostly unknown to the surrounding neighborhoods of southwest Boston - Hyde Park, Roslindale and Mattapan. Now a multinational property company intends to construct 10 buildings containing 270 rental units, 415 parking spaces and several roads on this land. From a beautiful green space of crucial wildlife habitats - shady forest, flower-filled meadows, rocky alcoves and vernal pools - the proposed project would turn Crane Ledge Woods into an immense urban heat island of impervious asphalt and concrete. This ecological devastation would rob our local wildlife of their homes, and its gentrifying effect would force many of us and our neighbors out of ours.