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 

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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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Trails

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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State Agencies

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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