New Wildlands Map Viewer

Post date: Dec 31, 2014 4:24:46 PM

Wildlife lands are important for wildlife and outdoor recreation. The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife has a new Wildlands Viewer tool helps you explore these lands.

Wildlife lands are protected primarily to provide habitat for wildlife and to give people a place to relax and explore the great outdoors. For the most part, wildlife lands are open to hunting, fishing, trapping, birdwatching, and other wildlife related recreation. Wildlife lands, including all Wildlife Management Areas, can now be viewed using the new Wildlands Viewer tool. This new tool shows land owned in partnership with DFG and managed by MassWildlife throughout the Commonwealth. The Wildlands Viewer replaces the official printed maps; however, maps can be customized and printed using the viewer. Users are reminded that maps are provided for recreational use and show approximate rather than legal descriptions of property boundaries.

The Wildlands Viewer will help prepare you to explore these properties with your rod and reel, bow, gun, knapsack, canoe, camera, or binoculars! Users will find unmarked trails or woods roads with simple, unpaved parking lots. Many of these properties are actively managed through mowing, cutting, prescribed burns, or other activities that benefit fish and wildlife. Regulations govern the activities allowed on these lands and focus on passive recreation. Motorized vehicles, for instance, are not permitted on state wildlife lands.