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Useful Conservation Links

(The following web-page references focus on either municipal or non-government resources. Many of the listed web-pages contain extensive web-page references of their own, including numerous relevant state and federal government sources.)

Municipal Government (Land Use Boards):

MA Assoc of Con Coms http://www.maccweb.org/

MA Assoc of Health Boards http://www.mahb.org/

MA Municipal Association http://www.mma.org/

MA Assoc of Assessing Officers/GIS http://maaogis.intranets.com/

UMass Citizen Training http://www.umass.edu/masscptc/

Calendar for training town boards http://www.townboard.org/

General Environmental Advocacy:

Env League of MA http://www.environmentalleague.org/

MA Sierra Club http://www.sierraclubmass.org/

MA Audubon Society http://www.massaudubon.org/

Environ Defense Fund http://www.edf.org/

Conservation Law Foundation http://www.clf.org/

MassPIRG http://www.masspirg.org/

Some Watershed Efforts:

MA Watershed Initiative http://www.state.ma.us/envir/mwi/watersheds.htm

EPA Wetlands, Oceans, Waterways http://www.epa.gov/owow/

MA Watershed Coalition http://www.commonwaters.org/

Some Land Conservation Efforts:

MA Land Trust Coalition http://www2.primushost.com/~mltc/

Land Trust Alliance http://www.lta.org/

Trust for Public Lands http://www.tpl.org/

The Wilderness Society http://www.wilderness.org/

The Trustees Of Reservations http://www.thetrustees.org/

American Farmland Trust http://www.farmland.org/regions/ne/index.htm

Some Financial Tools:

Environmental Grants: http://www.environmentalgrants.com/

Foundation Center: http://fdncenter.org/searchzone/

Assoc Grant Makers of MA: http://www.agmconnect.org/

GuideStar (Charities): http://www.guidestar.org/news/features/grantadvice.html

Some Mapping Tools:

Current USGS Maps: http://mapping.usgs.gov/partners/viewonline.html

Historic USGS Maps: http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/nhtopos.htm

Directions and Locations: http://mapquest.com/

Some Specialized Software Viewers:

Adobe Acrobat Reader (free reader for reading PDF files as on DEP site) :

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

GIS Map Viewer (free for reading MassGIS data maps from EOEA/ MassGIS):

http://www.state.ma.us/mgis/viewer.htm

Last Updated: Tuesday, Aug 28, 2007

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