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MFLA is the only statewide, non-profit organization with
an exclusive focus on the forests and forest landowners
of Massachusetts. MFLA focuses on positive, constructive
ways of improving and ensuring the health, care, and use
of the trees, forests and associated resources of the
state for generations to come. MFLA seeks to achieve
these goals by a sound program of information, advocacy,
education, example and caring involvement.
MFLA tries to educate its members and the public about
ways to better care for woodlands. MFLA encourages all
landowners to consider what they want to happen with
their land: whether to grow trees, encourage wildlife,
protect natural resources, or provide beautiful settings
for recreation. MFLA encourages landowners to manage and
protect their woodlands. MFLA advocates on behalf of
woodland owners on policies, laws and regulations that
may affect their land
As part of its emphasis on active stewardship, MFLA
sponsors the Tree Farm Program in Massachusetts,
and cosponsors Project Learning Tree, the
environmental education program that helps teachers
acquaint students in grades K-12 with trees, forests and
forest ecology. MFLA sends out a monthly email
newsletter, The Massachusetts Forest Update, to its
members to keep them up to date on upcoming events and
news relating to forests and landowners. MFLA also
publishes a 16-page magazine, The Woodland Steward, on
topics in forest management, improving wildlife habitat,
forest ecology, pending legislation and policies, and
the like.
Each year, MFLA puts on workshops, programs and tours to
educate landowners and the public about forest-related
subjects. MFLA holds Woods Walks and Tree Farm
Tours that show how landowners around the state are
managing their forests. MFLA each year helps put on the
Massachusetts Tree Farm Field Day in September to
show exemplary management of a Massachusetts woodland.
To help forest landowners protect their land for
future generations, MFLA acts as a land trust and
will accept donations of conservation restrictions or
even of woodlands outright. While MFLA supports
protection of all forests, it favors protection of
working forests managed to grow forest products. To
date, MFLA has directly protected more than 1,000 acres
of forests statewide, and worked with other conservation
organizations on the protection of 2,100 more acres.
If you own woodlands in Massachusetts or care about
Massachusetts trees or forests, become a member of MFLA
and support its efforts to help landowners care for
their forests.
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