Open Space
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| Subbasin | Recommended Action | Responsible and Potential Partners | Potential Funding* | Timeline |
| Bowers-Nonacoicus | Protect land overlying aquifer south of Flanagans Pond (Ayer) | Ayer Community Preservation Committee/ Land trusts/ NRWA | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self-help/ LCIPS | I |
| Bowers-Nonacoicus | Protect open space north of Plowshop Pond (Ayer) | Ayer Community Preservation Committee/ Land trusts/ NRWA | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self-help/ LCIPS | I |
| Catacunemug | Preserve and protect lands with prime agricultural soils (Lunenburg) | DFA/ NRCS/ NRWA/ Town | APR/ Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self-help/ DFA | I to L |
| Fall | Protection of additional local water supply lands (Leominster) | City/ EOEA/ NRWA | ALA/ Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self Help/ Forest Legacy | I to L |
| Falulah-Bakers | Preserve open space in the headwaters for greenway connections as well as water supply protection (Ashby, Fitchburg) | City and Town/ Fitchburg Stream Team/ Land trusts/ NRWA | ALA/ DCS Self Help/ Forest Legacy | I to L |
| Flag | Protect undeveloped lands adjacent to Sawmill Pond and Notown Reservoir (Fitchburg, Leominster) | City/ Fitchburg Stream Team/ Land trusts/ NRWA | Community Preservation Act/ Forest Legacy/ Self Help | I to L |
| Flints | Protect Parker Pond Bog area (Hollis) | Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Town | LCHIP | I to M |
| James | Protect prime agricultural lands through APRs or CRs and protect natural features such as drumlin swarm (Groton) | DFA/ NRCS/ NRWA/ Town | APR/ Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self Help | I to L |
| James | Monitor additional protection needs in the Snake Hill area (Ayer, Groton) | Land trusts/ MAS/ NRWA | I to L | |
| Monoosnoc | Protection of additional local water supply lands (Fitchburg, Leominster) | Cities/ DCS/ DEM/ Land trusts/ NRWA | ALA/ DCS Self-help/ Community Preservation Act | I to L |
| Mulpus | Protect prime wildlife corridors and habitats ie: Brattle and Squannacook Hills (Shirley) | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Town | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self-help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Nashua Mainstem | Protect the area described as the Throne (West Groton) | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Town | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self-help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Nashua Mainstem | Protection and restoration of natural resources within Mine Falls Park (Nashua) | City/ NH DES/ NRWA | I to L | |
| Nashua Mainstem | Protect the Nashua River greenway and work with Fruitlands and partners in other subbasins to protect the viewshed from Prospect Hill (Harvard) | Fruitlands/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Towns/ USFWS | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self-help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | M to L |
| Nashua Mainstem | Achieve permanent protection for the DFWELE Ayer Game Farm (Ayer) | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Town | I to M | |
| Nashua Mainstem | Protect "Intervale" lands - link between Bolton Flats & Oxbow NWR (Bolton, Harvard, Lancaster) | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ Towns/ USFWS | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self-help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Nissitissit | Protect lands relating to Belmont Springs holdings-Gulf Brook (Pepperell) and other lands identified by the Source Water Stewardship Project (Brookline, Hollis, Mason, Milford, Pepperell, Townsend) | DEM/DFWELE/Land Trusts/NRWA/Town | ALA/ Forest Legacy/LCHP | I to L |
| Nissitissit | Support the ongoing efforts of the Squannassit Regional Reserve Initiative and support ACEC designation (Mason, Pepperell, Townsend) | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Towns | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self-help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | I to L |
| North Nashua | Promote river corridor protection (Fitchburg, Lancaster, Leominster) | Cities and Towns/ Land Trusts/ NRWA | DCS Self-help/ Forest Legacy | I to L |
| Phillips | Protect Van Hazinga property (Ashburnham) | City and Towns/ Lands Trusts/ NRWA | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self-help/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Phillips | Protect Phillips Brook gorge (Fitchburg) | City/ Land trusts/ Neighborhood Association/ NRWA | DCS Self-help | L |
| Phillips | Extend protection for Muddy Pond (Westminster) | DEM/ Land trusts/ Town | DCS Self Help | M to L |
| Quinapoxet | Continued protection of local water supply lands and continued support for MDC-MWRA water supply proections (Holden, Princeton, Rutland) | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land trusts/ MDC/ NRWA/ Towns | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | I to L |
| South Nashua | Protect South Nashua floodplain and Prairie Bluffs (Clinton) | DEM/ Land Trusts/ Town | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help | I to L |
| Squannacook | Support Squannacook greenway protection and the ongoing efforts of the Squannassit Regional Reserve Initiative (Ashby, Greenville, Mason, New Ipswich, Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend) and support Squannassit ACEC designation (Ashby, Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend) | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Towns | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | I toL |
| Squannacook | Protect lands identified by the Source Water Stewardship Project | DEM/DFWELE/Land Trusts/NRWA/Town | ALA/ Forest Legacy/LCHP | I to L |
| Still | Protect lands from the Oxbow NWR to Pine Hill and Bolton Flats | DEM/ Friends of Oxbow/ Land trusts/ Towns/ USFWS | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Still | Monitor disposition of Devens South Post to USFWS | DEC/ DEM/ DEP/ DFWELE/ Friends of Oxbow/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Towns/ USFWS | L | |
| Stillwater | Protect high priority habitat areas near Hycrest Pond south of Justice Hill Road | DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ MDC/ NRWA/ Towns | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Stillwater | Continued protection of local water supply lands and continued support for MDC-MWRA water supply proections | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land trusts/ MDC/ NRWA/ Towns | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ Forest Legacy/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Unkety | Promote open space protection in Pepperell center upriver through Dunstable to Hollis townline | DEM/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Towns | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Unkety | Protect important herpetofauna habitat of state-wide importance i.e.: promote alternative road crossing options for the turtles and salamanders (Dunstable, Groton) | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Towns | Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Wachusett | Continued protection of local water supply lands and continued support for MDC-MWRA water supply proections (Boylston, Sterling, West Boylston) | DEM/ Land Trusts/ MDC/ NRWA/ Towns | ALA/ Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ LCIPS | I to L |
| Wekepeke | Protect riparian zones for habitat and water quality especially threatened lands adjacent to Wekepeke Brook | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Towns | ALA/ Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ LCIPS/ Towns | I to L |
| Whitman | Protect western edge of Muddy Pond and Lake Wampanoag | DEM/ DFWELE/ Land Trusts/ NRWA/ Towns | ALA/ Community Preservation Act/ DCS Self help/ LCIPS/ Towns | I to L |
| All | Monitor Ch 61 Lands for Potential Acquisition | Towns/NRWA/Land Trusts | DCS/LCIPS | I to L |