More Land Protected!

Every year, MassWildlife acquires and protects more land as Wildlife Management Areas and Wildlife Conservation Easements (WMAs and WCEs) for wildlife to thrive and for people to enjoy. Our fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 30, so we just wrapped up land projects for fiscal year 2019. In that year, we acquired 2,428 acres at a total cost of $6.2 million. Funding for land protection during fiscal year 2019 came from four sources: the $5 Wildlands Stamp added to hunting and fishing licenses sold in Massachusetts; the Massachusetts Open Space Bond; additional grant funding from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs; and In-Lieu Fee funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

In Montague, we added 47 acres to the Montague Plains WMA, on the west side of Mineral Road.

We’ve edited the boundaries of the Montague Plains WMA in iNaturalist to reflect this new addition. Nobody at all, not even MassWildlife, has done any iNaturalizing in these 47 acres of new Wildlife Management Area. Let’s go see what we can find!

Posted on 26 August, 2019 18:29 by masswildlife