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Office of Watershed Management
Division of
Water Supply Protection
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Quabbin Reservoir
Watershed
Land
Management Plan Update 2007-2017
DCR/DWSP
is mandated through legislation and regulation to produce watershed
management plans to "protect, preserve and enhance the environment
of the Commonwealth and to assure the availability of pure water for
future generations." The Quabbin Reservoir is the primary drinking
water supply in the DCR managed watershed system. The Division of
Water Supply Protection controls over 82,000 acres of land and water
in the Quabbin Reservoir watershed.
The
2007-2017 Quabbin Land Management Plan provides principles from
the current state of the science of watershed and natural resources
management, agency goals for the ten year period, and specific objectives
for accomplishing these in the areas of Land Protection, Forest Management,
Wildlife Management, Management and Protection of Biodiversity, and
Cultural Resources Protection. DCR/DWSP Forestry and Natural Resources
staff worked with the Quabbin Watershed Advisory Council and reviewed
comments from non-profit environmental organizations, academic researchers,
and the general public to develop the goals, objectives, and management
strategies laid out in the plan.
The
plan builds on advancements in science and management techniques,
the agency's own experience over six decades of managing the watershed
and its resources, and accumulated input from advisory groups and
the concerned public. It is designed as an adaptive plan, utilizing
annual reviews to build immediately on new information and changes
in the science that supports management decisions, and to revise objectives,
as necessary, within the ten-year time frame of the plan.
Commissioner
Richard K. Sullivan officially adopted the plan on September 17, 2007.
The following is the
complete 2007-2017 Quabbin Land Management Plan. Links are
provided for the entire plan in one document, as well as separated
out by chapter for faster viewing. All files are in .pdf format. Copies
are also available at the local watershed libraries and the Quabbin
Visitor Center.
2007-2017
Quabbin Land Management Plan
Executive
Summary
Table of Contents
1. Mission, Mandates, and Planning
Process
2. Description of Quabbin Reservoir
Watershed Resources
3. Principles Guiding Watershed
Management
4. Watershed Management Goals
5. Management Plan Objectives
and Methods: 2007-2017
(full chapter 2MB)
5.1 Land Protection
5.2 Management of Forested
Lands
5.3 Management of Other DWSP
Lands
5.4 Wildlife Management
5.5 Management and
Protection of Biological Diversity
5.6 Protection of Cultural Resources
6. Research, Inventory, and Monitoring
Needs
7. Public Involvement: Public
Review and Comments
8. Literature Cited and General
References and
9. Glossary of Terms
10. Appendices
11. Index
Comments and questions
can be sent to:
Thom Snowman, Quabbin Reservoir, 485 Ware Rd.
Belchertown, MA 01007 phone: 413-323-7254 x551; e-mail: thom.snowman@state.ma.us
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