Wildlands and Woodlands

Central Massachusetts
Emerging Project Area

The Northeast Wilderness Trust is actively engaged with partners in Massachusetts to identify properties appropriate for wilderness level protection. The Trust is part of the Wildlands and Woodlands Initiative, which envisions protecting one-half of all land in Massachusetts (approximately 2.5 million acres) from development, including five percent of the Commonwealth as wildland. The initiative is spearheaded by the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts. Harvard Forest is also coordinating an effort to enroll additional wilderness land in ongoing ecological monitoring studies, which may someday include Northeast Wilderness Trust properties.

• About Northeast Wilderness Trust

  The Northeast Wilderness Trust works to conserve forever-wild landscapes for nature and people. As the only land trust in the Northeast that protects land as wilderness, the organization uses various land conservation tools and often works with conservation partners including other land trusts. The Trust protects wild places in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, eastern New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

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• Active Projects

  Slavic Wildlife and Wilderness Sanctuary Central New Hampshire Forestlands Greater Alder Stream/ Piscataquis River Project Northern Green Mountains Split Rock Wildway
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• Contact Us

  Mailing Address
  P.O. Box 405
  Bristol, VT 05443
  Phone
  802.453.7880
  Email
  info@newildernesstrust.org

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