April 3, 2013 - Boston Flora

Saturday, May 18 – Sunday, May 19, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm – What’s Out There Weekend: Philadelphia

April 3, 2013 by Boston Flora

The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s Whatâ€™s Out There Weekend, scheduled for May 18 and 19, features free, expert-led tours at more than two-dozen significant examples of Philadelphiaâ€™s landscape architecture, including hidden gems in Fairmount Park (below,)Â the Beaux Arts grounds of the Rodin Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Colonial Revival design near Independence Hall, the groundbreaking Modernist expressions of Society Hill, and the Postmodernist plazas of Venturi Scott Brown. The tours reveal the back story about city shaping, landscape architecture and the design history of significant landscapes all over the city. Many are places people pass daily, but do we know their background stories?

Whatâ€™s Out There Weekend dovetails with the Web-based Whatâ€™s Out There, the nationâ€™s most comprehensive searchable database of historic designed landscapes. The database offers a broad and interconnected way to discover the breadth of Americaâ€™s historic designed landscapes, while Whatâ€™s Out There Weekend gives people the opportunity to experience the landscapes they might see every day in a new way.Â Registration is available on line at www.tclf.org.

Remember Endangered Species on Your State Tax Form

April 3, 2013 by Boston Flora

Help protect Box Turtles, Peregrine Falcons and other endangered wildlife by supporting the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Fund when you file your state income tax this year. Since 1983, Massachusetts tax filers of Form 1 have had the option of donating to this effort through the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife’s Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Fund when filing their state income tax (Line 32a: “Endangered Wildlife Conservation”), and tens of thousands of people have done so over the years.

All contributions go directly into the Fund, an important portion of the annual operating budget of DFW’s Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program (NHESP), which conserves and protects endangered species and their habitats in Massachusetts. Over 20,000 tax filers support the program with over $200,000 in critically-important donations each year. Won’t you join them? With your contributions to the Fund, you directly help to study, protect, and restore endangered animals and plants and their habitats. Donations help restore populations and conserve and maintain habitat for many vulnerable kinds of wildlife, from raptors to reptiles.

Contribute directly to the Fund by writing a check payable to: “Comm. of Mass-NHESP Fund” and sending it to: NHESP, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, 100 Hartwell Street, Suite 230, West Boylston, 01583.