THECOMMONWEALTHOF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTR-EOFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTALAFFAIRS Department of Agricultural Resources 251 Causeway Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02114 Agricultural Resources 617-626-1700 fax 617-626-1850 www.Mass.gov/AGR MITT ROMNEY STEPHEN R. PRITCHARD Governor Secretary KERRYHEALEY DOUGLAS P. GILLESPIE Lieutenant Governor Commissioner NOTICE Pursuant to the provisions of the Rights of Way Management Regulations, 333 CMR 11:00, in order to apply herbicides to control vegetation along rights of way, a 5 year Vegetation Management Plan (VMP) and a Yearly Operational Plan (YOP) must be approved by the (DAR) Department of Agricultural Resources. Therefore, notice of receipt of a YOP and procedures for public review is hereby given as required by Section 11.06 (3). A Yearly Operational Plan (YOP) has been submitted for: The Depnrtment of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Division of Urban Parkways This plan has been prepared by and submitted to the Department by: DCR Division of Urban Parks Mat Thurlow 25 I Causeway St. Suite 600 Boston, MA 021 14 Areas identified in the YOP as locations where treatment of Rights of Way with herbicides will be carried out in calendar year 2007 are: Town DCR Property South District Treatment Target Treatment Method Boston VFW Grass and Weeds Low pressure boom West Roxbury Pkwy Enneking Pkwy Turtle Pond Pkwy Boston Stony Brook Reservation Brush and invasives Low pressure Mother Brook Reservation Chestnut Poison Ivy backpack Hill Reservation Brookline Lost Pond Reservation Poison Ivy Low pressure Hammond Pond Pkwy Grass and Weeds backpack I 1 Wellesley Leo J Martin Golf Course Poison Ivy Low pressure Invasives backpack Weston Leo J Martin Golf Course Grass and Weeds Low pressure Norumbega Road Poison Ivy, Invasives backpack I Low pressure boom Waltham 1 Charles River Reservation I Poison Ivv I Low ~ressure I 1 Cutler park Reservation I Grass, weeds I backpack 1 1 Mother Brook Reservation Newton Hammond Pond Reservation Grass and Weeds Low pressure Saw Mill Brook Reservation Poison Ivy, Invasives backpack Ouinobeauin Road LOW-~ressureboom I I 1 I I1 I Brush and invasives I Low ~ressure I 1 Hemlock Gorge deservation I poison IVY / backpack 1 1 Town I DCR Property North District 1 Treatment Target- I Treatment Method C I I I 1 Belmont I Beaverbrook 1 Poison Ivy I Low pressure backpack Arlington Mystic Valley Pkwy Grass and Weeds Low pressure boom Mystic River Reservation 77 Somerville Alewife Brook Pkwy Grass and Weeds 1 Low pressure boom Mystic River Reservation McGrath Obrien Hwy I Winchester Mystic Valley Pkwy Grass and Weeds Low pressure boom Hillcrest Pkwy 7 Mystic River Reservation / Poison ivy Low pressure backpack Lynn Lynnway, Carroll Parkway Grass and Weeds Low pressure Nahant Beach Blvd boom Milton Blue Hills Reservation Poison Ivy Low pressure backpack Medford Fellsway East and West Grass and Weeds Low pressure boom Mystic Valley Pkwy South Border Rd East Border Rd Woodland Rd Stoneham Fellsway Poison Ivy Low pressure North Border Rd backpack Woodland Rd Pond St. Ravine Rd Middlesex Fells Reservation Page 2 of 5 .