Resilient Lands
Resilient landscapes are large, connected landscapes that provide healthy, diverse habitats and migratory corridors for wildlife; clean air, clean water, recreation, and health benefits for people; and adaptation to climate change for wildlife and people.
Why Resilient Landscapes Matter
The natural resources of Massachusetts face daunting challenges from development, climate change, and other factors. Mass Audubon is committed to restoring and stewarding the state’s most important natural lands including forests, coastal watersheds, and river corridors where our work can deliver maximum ecological benefit.
Our land protection strategy complements existing Federal, state, and partner organization plans and we are amplifying the impact of our collective land protection actions by advocating for increased funding focused on land conservation and resilient landscapes.
As we conserve more natural lands, we are also working with private owners of forestlands and farms to implement land management methods that produce positive economic and ecological outcomes.
What We're Doing
Through a combination of land protection and land stewardship, Mass Audubon is creating resilient lands across the state.
Protect
Mass Audubon protects more than 40,000 acres across the state.
Restore
Mass Audubon uses restoration techniques to support healthy wildlife habitats and biological diversity.
Steward
We work to not only ecologically manage our lands but restore degraded ecosystems as well.
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Protecting 64 Ecologically Important Acres in Hampden
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How Broadmoor's Meadow Bounced Back After Fire
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Take Action to Create a Healthy Connecticut River Watershed
Learn MoreOur Impact
Working with partners, we've dramatically expanded our efforts to restore and steward the state’s most important natural lands.
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41,000
Acres of land Mass Audubon currently protects
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1,000
Acres of wetlands that are currently in process of being restored
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66,888
Acres of private and municipal land we have created bird-friendly and climate-smart management plans on
Featured Stories
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Old Baldy Wildlife Sanctuary, OtisOld Baldy Thicket: A Resilient Landscape
Without active habitat management, trees would overtake Old Baldy's summit's field and thicket within just 20 years.
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Bedrock Ledge in Becket, MA
Mass Audubon Helps Protect Almost 300 Acres in Becket
The recent protection of Bedrock Ledge, almost 300 acres in Becket, MA, brings us closer to achieving our goal of Protecting and Stewarding Resilient Landscapes as set out in our Action Agenda. It is a prime example of working with partners to protect the Commonwealth's most climate resilient and diverse habitats.
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Big Wins for Land Conservation
The end of 2022 was busy for our land conservation team, who put the finishing touches on protecting over 400 acres.
Take Action
We need your curiosity, commitment, and passion to ensure that our lands become more resilient, that more people than ever experience the magic of nature, and that we fight climate change—now and in the future.
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