Jump Down to the Following Groups of Organizations

• Friends of Organizations   • Watershed Organizations   • Regional Conservation Groups   • Regional/National Advocacy Groups   • Mass. Government Agencies      Please send updates to: conservation@amcboston.org.

These folks have great lists of links...

The Charles River Watershed Association
The Trustees of Reservations
Environmental League of Massachusetts

Local "Friends" (Type) Groups

Friends of the Alewife Reservation
www.friendsofalewifereservation.org
Friends of the Blue Hills
www.FriendsoftheBlueHills.org
Friends of the Middlesex Fells Reservation
www.fells.org
Friends of Breakheart Reservation
www.saugus.org/FOBR/
Friends of Boston Harbor Islands
www.fbhi.org
Friends of Lynn Woods
www.flw.org
Friends of Hemlock Gorge
www.hemlockgorge.org
The Arnold Arboretum
arboretum.harvard.edu
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy
www.emeraldnecklace.org
Bay Circuit Alliance
www.serve.com/baycircuit/
Metropolitan Area Planning Council
www.mapc.org
Essex County Greenbelt Association
www.ecga.org

Local Watershed Associations

Greater Boston

Charles River Watershed Association
www.crwa.org
Charles River Conservancy
www.charlesriverconservancy.org
Neponset River Watershed Association
www.neponset.org
Mystic River Watershed Association
www.mysticriver.org
Organization for the Assabet River
www.assabetriver.org
Sudbury Valley Trustees
www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org

Boston Harbor

Friends of Boston Harbor Islands
www.fbhi.org
Save the Harbor, Save the Bay
www.savetheharbor.org
Boston Harbor Association
www.tbha.org

West

Blackstone River Watershed Association
www.thebrwa.org
Nashua River Watershed Association
www.nashuariverwatershed.org

North

Ipswich River Watershed Association
www.ipswichriver.org
Merrimack River Watershed Council
www.merrimack.org
Saugus River Watershed Council
www.saugusriver.org
Parker River Clean Water Association
www.parker-river.org
Shawsheen River Watershed Association
www.shawsheen.org
Salem Sound Coastwatch
www.salemsound.org

South

North and South Rivers Watershed Association
www.nsrwa.org
Eel River Watershed Association
www.mettiewhipple.com/eel/
Taunton River Watershed Alliance
www.trwaonline.org
Westport River Watershed Alliance
www.wrwa.com
The Coalition for Buzzards Bay
www.savebuzzardsbay.org

Other

Massachusetts Watershed Coalition
www.commonwaters.org
Massachusetts Water Watch Partnership
www.umass.edu/tei/mwwp/
Mass. Riverways (Dept. of Fisheries, Wildlife & Environmental Law Enforcement)
www.state.ma.us/dfwele/river/riv_toc.htm
American Rivers
www.amrivers.org
Clean Water Action - Massachusetts
www.cleanwateraction.org/ma

Regional Conservation Groups

The Trustees of Reservations
www.thetrustees.org
Massachusetts Audubon Society
www.massaudubon.org
Massachusetts Dept. of Conservation and Recreation
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/rec-act.htm
Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition
www.massland.org
Trust for Public Land (New England Page)
http://www.tpl.org/
Massachusetts Rural Development Council
www.mrdc.org/

Regional (and some National) Advocacy Groups

Regional

Environmental League of Massachusetts
www.environmentalleague.org
Conservation Law Foundation of New England
www.clf.org
Massachusetts Environmental Trust
www.agmconnect.org/massenvironmentaltrust
MassPIRG
www.masspirg.org
Sierra Club (Massachusetts Chapter)
www.sierraclubmass.org
Earth Share of New England
www.GreenForNewEngland.org
American Planning Association - Massachusetts Chapter
www.massapa.org
New England Forestry Foundation
www.newenglandforestry.org

National

Land Trust Alliance
www.lta.org
National Park Trust
www.parktrust.org
National Parks and Conservation Association
www.npca.org
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
www.railtrails.org
Renew America
solstice.crest.org/environment/renew_america/
League of Conservation Voters
www.lcv.org
Center for Environmental Citizenship
www.envirocitizen.org
Conservation Leaders Network
www.conservationleaders.com

Government Agencies (Massachusetts)

Mass. Riverways (Dept. of Fisheries, Wildlife & Environmental Law Enforcement)
www.state.ma.us/dfwele/river/riv_toc.htm
Mass. Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
www.magnet.state.ma.us/envir/eoea.htm
Mass. Dept. of Conservation and Recreation
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/rec-act.htm
Mass. Division of Conservation Services
http://www.mass.gov/envir/dcs/default.htm
Mass. Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program
www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/nhesp.htm
Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection
www.magnet.state.ma.us/dep/dephome.htm
Mass. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
www.magnet.state.ma.us/dfwele/dfw/
Mass. Dept. of Food and Agriculture
www.mass.gov/agr/