Future for Forested Landscapes: a New Vision and a New Partnership

In 2005, a group of scientists associated with Harvard University's Harvard Forest published a scientific report entitled Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts. The report called for a bold new land protection effort to stave off accelerating forest fragmentation in Massachusetts. Since its original release, this view has been expanded to include all of New England.
In the fall of 2006, a group of people came together to share ideas on how the W&W vision could be realized. Now over 50 members-strong, the Wildlands and Woodlands Partnership helps to move partners' strategic initiatives forward.

Highlights of Current Activities

• Land Aggregation Pilot Protect
• Special Study Commission on Financing Forest Conservation
• Woodland Council Groups
• Wildlands and Woodlands in the New York Times "The Working Forest"

New Publications and Maps

• Fire in the East , by David B.Kittredge in the Journal of Forestry April/May 2009.
• Massachusetts Audubon Society Connections article, " A Second Chance to Get it Right ", by Bob Wilber, Director of Land Protection ©2009 Mass Audubon
• A Wildland and Woodland Vision for the New England Landscape: Local Conservation, Biodiversity and the Global Environment
• Wildlands and Woodlands Partnership Members
• Where W&W Partners are Working

This website is designed as a resource to help citizens, landowners, organizations and government agencies develop comprehensive approaches to forest conservation. Come back to this site often to see highlights on Wildland and Woodlands activities and observations of happenings around the region.