The Blue Hills and the Middlesex Fells are the gateways of Boston--they must never be developed
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Islands of forest surrounded by sprawl... When Boston begins to boom again, must focus on developing INSIDE those gateways!
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Narrower streets, end of parking minimums, etc, to free up land There are no gateways like the aforementioned ones to Boston's west...
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...because all prospects have been infiltrated by sprawling development. Note that by this I do not mean that all woods west of Boston...
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...have been cleared and built upon, but rather, that roads and houses *permeate* them; there are no large undisturbed pockets
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Remember, wildlife needs expansive contiguous blocks of habitat, NOT a scattering of human habitation throughout--however sparse it is!
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Compare low-density sprawl outside Boston with unbroken natural landscape outside Tokyopic.twitter.com/Eb480T5Fad
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If you live in that type of sprawl in pic 1, you may think you are living in "nature," but this is not so!
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Whereas the heavily wooded mountains outside Tokyo--which, in past, were more extensively harvested and thus disturbed...
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...have dramatically re-wilded as Tokyo grew; wild boars and bears have proliferated where they had long been absent!
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