Sadly, Massachusetts has no national forests or parks, or in fact any significant amount of permanently protected state-owned forests of any sort, ...

Map sowing how U.S. forest land has changed since 1630. Earth System Science Data. Today, the U.S. has an estimated 765 million acres of forest land, covering about 33 percent of the country's ...

With its 3.1 million acres of forests, Massachusetts has an opportunity to do much more to slow climate change while improving our quality of life with healthier forests.

The plan lays out a goal of establishing reserves on 10% of all forest land in Massachusetts, about 300,000 acres. And we've been discussing this 40% target as well in terms of conservation.

The Family Forest Carbon Program, created by the American Forest Foundation and the Nature Conservancy, will pay forest owners in Western Massachusetts, Vermont and parts of New York to practice ...