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Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Acushnet Cedar Swamp: June 1972 New Bedford. Bristol: state One of the state's largest, wildest and most impenetrable swamps, and an outstanding example of the diversity of conditions and species in the glaciated section of the oak-chestnut forest.
The geology of Massachusetts includes numerous units of volcanic, intrusive igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks formed within the last 1.2 billion years. The oldest formations are gneiss rocks in the Berkshires , which were metamorphosed from older rocks during the Proterozoic Grenville orogeny as the proto-North American continent ...
Landforms of Essex County, Massachusetts (2 C, 11 P) F. Landforms of Franklin County, Massachusetts (3 C, 8 P) H. Landforms of Hampden County, Massachusetts (3 C, 5 P)
Landforms of Massachusetts by county (16 C) B. Beaches of Massachusetts (43 P) Bodies of water of Massachusetts (10 C, 5 P) C. Caves of Massachusetts (2 P) H.
This category is devoted to parks, sanctuaries, conservation properties, and wildlands within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Pages in category "Massachusetts natural resources" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total.
Massachusetts, with forests covering 3,060,000 acres (12,400 km 2) (59%) of its land area, administers more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) [1] of state forest, wildlife and watershed land under the cabinet level Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
The Bureau of State Parks and Recreation division of Department of Conservation and Recreation (Massachusetts) (DCR) is responsible for the maintenance and management of over 450,000 acres (1,820 sq km) of privately and state-owned forests and parks, nearly 10% of the Commonwealth's total land mass. Within the lands managed by the Bureau of ...
As such, no mountains in Massachusetts are recognized by the Appalachian Mountain Club in its list of Four-thousand footers — a list of New England peaks over 4,000 feet with a minimum 200 feet of topographic prominence. Thousands of named summits in Massachusetts (including mountains and hills) are recognized by the USGS.