Join us for a driving field tour of the Massachusetts DCR Division of Water Supply Protection (DWSP), DCR Bureau of Fire Control, and the DFG Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) prescribed fire activities within central Massachusetts’ Lower Worcester Plateau ecoregion. We will focus our tour within the Quabbin Reservoir Watershed’s Quabbin Park in Ware and MassWildlife’s Muddy Brook Wildlife Management Area and WCE in Hardwick. This landscape supports a mosaic of mesic to dry oak woodlands, heathlands, and pitch pine and oak barrens on ridgetops and sandy outwash plains. The Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control, DWSP, and MassWildlife will highlight wildland fire planning, forest thinning, and on-going prescribed fire activities within this landscape. These sites feature the use of prescribed fire for watershed management and infrastructure protection, biodiversity, natural community restoration, and increased forest resilience. Meet location will be in Quabbin Park, Ware, MA 42.285566, -72.335118.
Please sign up below and if you should have any questions, please contact: Alex Belote at alex.belote@mass.gov or Caren Caljouw at caren.caljouw@mass.gov.