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Chapter 61 is a voluntary current use program designed by the Massachusetts Legislature to tax real property in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at its resources value rather than its highest and best use (development) value. Landowners who enroll their land in the program receive property tax reductions in exchange for a lien on their ...
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.
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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 Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 192 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders. This is the second highest statewide total in the United States after New York, which has more than 250. Of the Massachusetts NHLs, 57 are in the state capital of Boston, and are listed separately. Ten of the remaining 134 designations ...
Church on the Hill, in Berkshire County House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, Essex County Sankaty Head Light, in Nantucket Faneuil Hall, Boston, Suffolk County The Flying Horses Carousel, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County The Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge, Hampshire and Worcester Counties The PT 796, Fall River, Bristol County The Alvah Stone Mill, Montague, Franklin County
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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 ...