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Figure 18 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from: MassGIS. 2016. Community Preservation Act (CPA) Towns. Office of Geographic Information (MassGIS), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MassIT.

Figure 17 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from: Community Forest Collaborative. 2007. Community forests: a community investment strategy.

Figure 15b from Wildlands & Woodlands 2017 Report. Data from W. Labich and individual RCPs.

Figure 15a from Wildlands & Woodlands Report. Data from W. Labich and individual RCPs.

Figure 14 from 2017 W&W Report. Data primarily from Highstead and the Trust for Public Land. Complete references available in M. Buchanan. 2016. Public conservation funding in New England: recent trends in government spending on land protection. Highstead, Redding, CT.

Figure 13 from 2017 W&W Report. Forest cover data from Olofsson et al. 2016 and Homer et al. 2015 (see cited refs #7 and 8). See Thompson et al. In Review (cited ref #19) for methods. Conservation data from USGS 2016 (cited ref #26). Full figure references available in the full report.

Figure 11 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from the Harvard Forest, Highstead, and individual organizations.

Figure 10 from 2017 W&W Report. Data from: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Gap Analysis Program (GAP). 2016. Protected areas database of the US, PAD-US (CBI Edition). The Nature Conservancy (TNC). 2014. Secured lands geodatabase. Thompson, J. R., J. S. Plisinski, P. Olofsson, C. Holden, and M. Duveneck. In Review. Forest loss in New England: A projection of recent trends. James W. Sewall Co. 2015. Geospatial mapping.