With funding made available by the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program developed the BioMap to identify the areas most in need of protection in order to protect the native biodiversity of the Commonwealth. BioMap focuses primarily on state-listed rare species and exemplary natural communities but also includes the full breadth of the State's biological diversity.
The goal of the BioMap is to promote strategic land protection by producing a map showing areas, that if protected, would provide suitable habitat over the long term for the maximum number of Massachusetts' terrestrial and wetland plant and animal species and natural communities.
For more information on this project, see Related Links at bottom right of screen.
Download the Massachusetts BioMap Cast Study (pdf).
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