News and Announcements

Federal Funding Supports Restoration of Windswept Bog to Healthy Wetland Habitat

The MassWildlife Habitat Management Grant Program provides crucial support to partners to steward biodiversity, enhance climate resiliency, and promote outdoor recreation.

Funding will build climate resilience, restore critical habitats and water quality

Climate Forestry Committee Issues Recommendations for Climate-Oriented Forest Management Practices

State expects to receive $23 million through 2028 subject to Congressional appropriations

Athol, Attleboro, Colrain, Groton, North Andover, Monson, Phillipston, and Shutesbury area dams to be funded

Investment will Restore Wildlife Habitat, Promote Resiliency, Increase Biodiversity and Make Communities in Central and Western Mass Safer

Funding will ensure communities have structures that can adapt to climate impacts

Sent Thursday morning to Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in western Montana

Officials Caution Boaters Regarding New Hazards in Connecticut River Following Recent Flooding

The new regulations set a cap on commercial harvest and mortality, including the first-ever biomedical quota

(DCR) Commissioner Brian Arrigo and Department of Fish and Game (DFG) Commissioner Tom O’Shea sent off 16 state wildland firefighters – 14 from DCR and 2 from DFG – to Quebec, Canada