Massachusetts Regulations: Land

 Increase Public Open Space in the Commonwealth

The Conservation Land Tax Credit is an important tool for creating public open space and expanding access to land that was once privately held. Increasing the annual cap is an enormous opportunity to conserve ecologically and economically valuable lands, as well as to advance our climate change goals.

 Slow, Stop, and Reverse the Loss of Natural and Working Lands Carbon

Massachusetts's natural and workings lands (NWL) are currently absorbing more carbon than they emit, and their protection from permanent conversion to non-NWL uses is crucial to the administration's climate strategy. Massachusetts is losing several thousand acres of NWL, particularly forests, each year, threatening the essential role of these lands as a net carbon sink and provider of key ecosystem services.