Open Space Protection: Directory of Land Trusts
Bourne Conservation Trust
Contact person: Steve Ballentine, President
PO Box 203, Cataumet, MA 02534-0203
Phone: (508) 563-2884
Website: www.bourneconservationtrust.org
Email: bct.trails@gmail.com
Area of Operation: Bourne
Year Founded: 1980
Buzzards Bay Coalition
Contact person: Brendan Annett, Vice President, Watershed Protection
114 Front Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
Phone: (508) 999-6363
Website: savebuzzardsbay.org
Email: annett@savebuzzardsbay.org
Area of operation: Buzzards Bay Watershed
Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust
Contact person: Dexter Mead, Executive Director
Address: PO Box 70567, South Dartmouth, MA 02747
Phone: (508) 991-2289
Website: www.dnrt.org
Email: info@dnrt.org
Area of operation: Dartmouth
Year founded: 1971
Fairhaven-Acushnet Land Preservation Trust
Contact person: Cora-Dorothy Peirce, President
Address: PO Box 491, Fairhaven, MA 02719
Website: falpt.org
Email: coradot@yahoo.com
Area of operation: Fairhaven & Acushnet
Year founded: 1992
The 300 Committee (Falmouth)
Contact person: Jessica Whritenour, Executive Director
157 Locust St., Falmouth, MA 02540
Phone: (508) 540-0876; Fax: (508) 457-6406
Website: www.300committee.org
Email: saveland@300committee.org
Area of Operation: Falmouth
Year Founded: 1985
Mass Audubon
Contact person: Gary Clayton, President
208 South Great Road, Lincoln, MA 01773
Phone: (781) 259-9500
Website: www.massaudubon.org
Email: Send email through contact page on website
Area of operation: State of Massachusetts
Year founded: 1896
Mattapoisett Land Trust
PO Box 31, Mattapoisett, MA 02739
Phone: (774) 377-9191
Website: www.mattlandtrust.org
email: info@mattlandtrust.org
Area of operation: Mattapoisett
Year founded: 1974
Rochester Land Trust
Contact person: Matt Monteiro, President
PO Box 337, Rochester, MA 02770
Phone: (706) 675-5263
Website: rochesterlandtrust.org
Email: info@rochesterlandtrust.org
Area of operation: Rochester
Year founded: 1996
Sippican Lands Trust
Contact persons: Jim Bride, Executive Director
PO Box 848, Marion, MA 02738
Phone: (508)748-3080
Website: www.sippicanlandstrust.org
Email: jbride@sippicanlandstrust.org
Area of operation: Marion
Year founded: 1974
The Trustees of Reservations – Westport Office
Contact person: TBA
830 Drift Road, Westport, MA 02790
Phone: (508) 636-4693
Website: www.thetrustees.org
Email: information@thetrustees.org
Area of operation: Statewide organization, but this is the SE contact
Year founded: 1891
Wareham Land Trust
Contact person: Kathleen Pappalardo, President
PO Box 718, Wareham, MA 02571
Phone: (508) 295-0211
Website: www.warehamland.org
Email: info@warehamlandtrust.org
Area of Operation: Wareham
Year Founded: 2001
Westport Land Conservation Trust
Contact person: Ross Moran, Executive Director
Address: P.O. Box 3975 (830 Drift Road), Westport, MA 02790
Phone: (508) 636-9228
Website: westportlandtrust.org
Email: ross@westportlandtrust.org
Area of operation: Westport
Year founded: 1972
The Wildlands Trust of SE Massachusetts
Contact person: Karen Grey, Executive Director
675 Long Plain Road, Plymouth, MA 02360
Phone: (774) 343-5121
Fax: (774) 343-5124
Website: wildlandstrust.org
Email: info@wildlandstrust.org
Area of operation: Plymouth County & Taunton River corridor
Year founded: 1973
The Buzzards Bay NEP, established in 1985, was among the first National Estuary Programs. In 1991, the NEP completed the Buzzards Bay Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) which outlines research conclusions and management strategies for the protection and restoration of water quality and living resources in the Bay and its surrounding 432 square mile watershed. In 2013, the NEP updated the Buzzards Bay CCMP (read the 2013 update). The Buzzards Bay NEP is administered by the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and the US Environmental Protection Agency. The primary role of the NEP since the completion of the CCMP has and continues to be to provide technical and planning assistance to municipalities to facilitate implementation of the recommendations contained in the CCMP.
For more information from the NEP on local land trusts please contact:
Sarah Williams, Regional Planner
81-B County Road, Suite E
Mattapoisett, MA 02739
Email: Sarah.Williams@mass.gov
Phone: (774) 377-6002