Organizations 
Land Trusts | Watershed & Lake/Pond Associations | Trails | Heritage Areas, Associations & Councils | State Agencies
This is a growing, evolving list of nonprofit organizations, municipal boards, and agency departments. If you can help make the list on the ConservationCommon more complete and/or accurate, please send information to pci@ttor.org.
Land Trusts
Land Trust Alliance’s list of land trusts in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition’s list of land trusts in Massachusetts
Watershed & Lake/Pond Associations
Map of Massachusetts’ watersheds
Directory of Volunteer Water Monitoring Groups in Massachusetts
BERKSHIRES
Hoosic River Watershed Association
Housatonic Valley Association
Housatonic River Initiative/Housatonic Riverkeeper  Back to Top - If you can help make this list more complete, please send information to pci@ttor.org.
PIONEER VALLY & HILL TOWNS
Connecticut River Watershed Council
Deerfield River Watershed Association
Farmington River Watershed Association
French River Connection
Friends of the Green River (formerly Green River Watershed Preservation Alliance)
Lake Quinsigamond Watershed Association
Millers River Watershed Council
Westfield River Watershed Association
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CENTRAL
Blackstone Headwaters Coalition
Blackstone River Watershed Association
Blackstone River Watershed Council
Lake Singletary Watershed Association
Nashua River Watershed Association
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METRO BOSTON
Charles River Watershed Association
Hop Brook Protection Association
Friends of Mystic River
Mystic River Watershed Association
Organization for the Assabet River
Sudbury Assabet Concord (“SuAsCo”) Watershed Community Council
Sudbury River Watershed Organization
Sudbury Valley Trustees*
River Meadow Brook Association
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NORTHEAST
Chebacco Lake Watershed Association
Groundwork Lawrence*
Ipswich River Watershed Association
Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust*
Parker River Clean Water Association
Merrimack River Watershed Council
Salem Sound Coastwatch
Saugus River Watershed Council
Shawsheen River Watershed Association
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SOUTHEAST
Coalition for Buzzards Bay
Eel River Watershed Association
Jones River Watershed Association
Neponset River Watershed Association
North & South Rivers Watershed Association, Mass Bay
Pembroke Watershed Association
Taunton River Watershed Alliance
The Environmental Advocates for Massachusetts Southeast
Watershed Alliance of Southeastern Massachusetts
Weir River Watershed Association
Westport River Watershed Alliance
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CAPE & ISLANDS
Cape Cod Commission
Martha’s Vineyard Commission
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List of rail-trails in Massachusetts
Lists of hiking trails in Massachusetts
LOCAL TRAIL & RAIL-TRAIL NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Note: Lots of rail trails are owned and cared for by towns/cities or the state; these trails don’t necessarily have a nonprofit or “friends” group associated with them. Some do, some don’t. BERKSHIRES
Great Barrington Housatonic River Walk
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PIONEER VALLEY & HILL TOWNS
Friends of Northampton Trails & Greenways
Manhan Rail Trail
Norwottock Rail Trail Online
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CENTRAL
Mass Central Rail Trail
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METRO BOSTON
Assabet River Rail Trail
Bay Circuit Trail & Greenway
Belmont Citizens Forum
Clear the Trail
Friends of the Bruce Freeman Rail
Friends of the Community Paths
Minuteman Bikeway
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NORTHEAST
Coastal Trails Coalition
Border to Boston Trail
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SOUTHEAST
Friends of the Fairhaven Bike path
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CAPE & ISLANDS
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Heritage Areas, Associations & Councils, etc…for Regional Efforts
BERKSHIRES
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area
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PIONEER VALLEY & HILLTOWNS
Highland Communities Initiative
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CENTRAL
Freedoms Way Heritage Area
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission
North Quabbin Regional Landscape Partnership
Quinebaug-Shetucket Heritage Corridor/ The Last Green Valley
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METRO BOSTON
Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Wild and Scenic River Stewardship Council
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NORTHEAST
Essex National Heritage Area
Essex County Forum
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SOUTHEAST
Taunton River Wild and Scenic Stewardship Committee
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CAPE & ISLANDS
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Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
OFFICES
Division of Conservation Services
Massachusetts Geographic Information System (MassGIS)
Coastal Zone Management
Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Group
Office of Technical Assistance and Technology
Water Resources Commission
Mass Environmental Trust
Massachusetts Strategic Envirotechnology Partnership (STEP)
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DEPARTMENTS
Department of Agricultural Resources
Department of Conservation and Recreation
Department of Environmental Protection
Division of Energy Resources
Department of Fish and Game
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Office of Fishing and Boating Access
Riverways Program
Massachusetts Environmental Police
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