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- Executive Office
of Environmental Affairs The Executive Office
of Environmental Affairs works to protect the environment of Massachusetts
through community preservation, open space protection, biodiversity,
environmental education, pollution prevention and control, and environmental
impact review.
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- Department
of Environmental Protection The Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Protection is a state agency responsible
for protecting human health and the environment by ensuring clean
air and water, the safe management and disposal of solid and hazardous
wastes, the timely cleanup of hazardous waste sites and spills,
and the preservation of wetlands and coastal resources.
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- Massachusetts
Coastal Zone Management Office The Massachusetts
Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) is a part of the Executive
Office of Environmental Affairs. Its mission is to balance the impacts
of human activity with the protection of coastal and marine resources.
As a networked program, CZM was specifically established to work
with other state agencies, federal agencies, local governments,
academic institutions, nonprofit groups, and the general public
to promote sound management of the Massachusetts coast.
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- Natural
Heritage and Endangered Species Program The
Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program (NHESP), part of the
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, is one of the
programs forming the Natural Heritage network. NHESP is responsible
for the conservation and protection of hundreds of species that
are not hunted, fished, trapped, or commercially harvested in the
state. The Program's highest priority is protecting the approximately
190 species of vertebrate and invertebrate animals and 258 species
of native plants that are officially listed as Endangered, Threatened
or of Special Concern in Massachusetts.
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- Division
of Conservation Services Since 1964, the Division
of Conservation Services has been providing technical and financial
assistance to farmers as well as public and private land owners
in matters dealing with farm plans or sediment and erosion control.
DCS awards grants to municipalities for conservation and park land
acquisition and construction. DCS also provides assistance with
the development of open space and recreation plans, and to municipalities,
land trusts, and private land owners regarding approval of conservation
restrictions.
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- Department
of Agricultural Resources The Massachusetts
Department of Agricultural Resources' mission is to support, promote
and enhance the long-term viability of Massachusetts agriculture
with the aim of helping this state's agricultural businesses become
as economically and environmentally sound as possible. By so doing,
it is hoped that our farmers will continue to support and maintain
thousands of acres of valuable open space for the benefit of the
state's economy and environment.
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- Division
of Marine Fisheries The Massachusetts Marine
Fisheries Mission is to manage the Commonwealth's living marine
resources and the harvesting of those resources by the commercial
and recreational fisheries, while maintaining a diverse number of
self-sustaining fish populations at healthy levels of abundance
in balance with the ecosystem. Thus, providing wealth and benefits
to all citizens of Massachusetts.
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- Department
of Fish and Game The Massachusetts Department
of Fish and Game is responsible for the management and conservation
of the state's fisheries and wildlife, including rare and endangered
species.
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- Division
of Urban Parks and Recreation The Division of
Urban Parks and Recreation park network extends from King's Beach
and Breakheart Reservation on the north to the Blue Hills Reservation
in the south; from the Boston Harbor Islands in the east to the
Elm Bank Reservation in Dover to the west. Almost 20,000 acres of
woodlands, wetlands, and urban parklands comprise this system.
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- Division
of State Parks and Recreation One of the smallest
states in the nation, Massachusetts has one of the largest state
park systems. Wherever you go, you are always near a state park.
Waterfalls, spring blossoms, log cabins, historic estates, bike
paths, mountaintop vistas, sandy ocean beaches, lakeside camping,
swimming, hiking, picnicking, fishing, boating - Massachusetts state
parks offer all this and more.
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- MassGIS
MassGIS is the Commonwealth's Office of Geographic
and Environmental Information, within the Massachusetts Executive
Office of Environmental Affairs. Through MassGIS, the Commonwealth
has created a comprehensive, statewide database of spatial information
for environmental planning and management.
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