<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-069a0d6b-fb62-c7a4-00cd-9a3f22f06ea3"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Contact: Quinton Zondervan 617-520-4720</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="mailto:president@greencambridge.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">president@greencambridge.org</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Run through: 14 June 2013</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Action to Save Silver Maple Forest</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Friday 14 June, 2013, Alewife MBTA Station, 8am to 910am, 5pm to 6pm</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:72pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Followed by a full day vigil along Acorn Park Drive</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">A
Silver Maple Forest day of action will take place at the Alewife MBTA
Station and Acorn Park Drive on Friday, June 14th . Starting at 8:00am
during rush hour, citizens of Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge and the
surrounding area will make known their concerns about proposed
dangerous, illegal wetlands development in the area with a group
demonstration at the Alewife MBTA Station. All are welcome to join us
and participate in a respectful and peaceful manner. Following the
demonstration, we will move along Acorn Park Drive and hold a vigil
throughout the day, moving back to the Alewife MBTA station starting at
5pm. A </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">guided </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">bicycle</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ride around the Reservation perimeter will </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">start at 5:30pm </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">for individuals and families</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">to learn about the rich ecology of the 130 acre Alewife Reservation and the adjoining Silver Maple Forest.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1500000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Many
local organizations, environmentalists and residents are greatly
concerned about the impacts of a proposed housing development on the
Belmont Uplands, a beautiful forested area within the greater Alewife
ecosystem. The threatened forest connects with many acres of Cambridge
wetlands, and is a rich wildlife corridor through Cambridge, Belmont and
Arlington including the Little River that flows through the Route 16
greenway north to the Mystic River. Concerns about the proposed
development, which are well documented, range from traffic problems,
garbage dumping, water quality and flooding in the Alewife area, to loss
of open space, wildlife and habitat destruction and loss of
biodiversity. Clear-cutting most of the forest would be required to
accommodate the proposed development.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.1500000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Replacing
this large and unique natural forest in the Boston area with
condominiums would represent a critical loss of natural habitat to the
area. Continuous appeals by the citizen based Belmont Coalition and
Friends of Alewife Reservation, who are both plaintiffs in an active
lawsuit to stop this development, have kept the trees standing, with an
important court judgment pending. Green Cambridge is organizing this
day of action to help bring recognition and urgency to the work of the
many courageous individuals and groups who have been working for years
to preserve this important urban wild, including: Coalition to Preserve
Belmont Uplands, Friends of Alewife Reservation, Sustainable Arlington,
the Belmont Citizens Forum, First Parish Cambridge, First Parish in
Arlington, Boston Sierra Club, Lesley University, Mystic River Watershed
Association, Belmont Conservation Commission, and The City of
Cambridge.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">All are welcome to participate for all or any part of the day’s action.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Contact: </span><a href="mailto:president@greencambridge.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">president@greencambridge.org</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a></p>
<br><a href="mailto:president@greencambridge.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For more information: </span><a href="http://friendsofalewifereservation.org/news.htm#forests" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://friendsofalewifereservation.org/news.htm#forests</span></a>