Heritage Hub Overview

The online reporting and filing system for the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program.

What is Heritage Hub?

MassWildlife's Heritage Hub is a reporting and filing system that enables citizen scientists, landowners, consultants, and researchers to:

• Submit plant and animal observations
• Submit a vernal pool certification application
• Submit Natural Community observations
• Request rare species information, and
• Apply for a MESA project review associated with development projects.

Getting started

To register for an account, go to the Heritage Hub homepage, click on the LOGIN/REGISTER button. First-time users need to create their account including a username, password, name, and email address. Learn how to create an account. 

Individuals can use Heritage Hub. Organizations can also create accounts and invite their employees to join for a more collaborative experience. For more information on how to create an Organization Account, please see our Heritage Hub Help Documentation or view the Personal and organization profiles training video.  

For the best experience, make sure you have the latest version of your internet browser installed. Internet Explorer and older browser versions will not support Heritage Hub. 

The browser extension Grammarly interferes with system functionality; turn off this extension when using Heritage Hub.

Bulk Upload Observations

The Heritage Hub application allows you to bulk create Plant, Animal, or Natural Community observation forms. To successfully upload your observation reports, including negative data, you must use one of the preformatted template spreadsheets.

More detailed information can be found in the Bulk Upload training video, Heritage Hub Help Documentation or in the example spreadsheets below.

Learn how to use Heritage Hub

Get step-by-step video instructions for using Heritage Hub, view the training video library or read through the Heritage Hub Help Documentation.