Massachusetts, with forests covering (59%) of its land area, administers more than of state forest, wildlife and watershed land under the cabinet level Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Lands are managed by Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks and Recreation (), Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) (),MassWildlife: Forest Management and the Division of Water Supply Protection's Office of Watershed ManagementOffice of Watershed Management ().
Current state forests Name Location Town(s) Size Image Ashburnham State Forest Ashburnham Ashburnham Arthur Wharton Swann State Forest Great Barrington and Monterey Barnstable State Forest Barnstable Barnstable Beartown State Forest Monterey Monterey, Great Barrington, Lee, Otis, Stockbridge and Tyringham Becket State Forest Becket Becket Berkley State Forest Berkley Berkley Billerica State Forest Billerica Billerica Boxford State Forest Boxford Boxford, Middleton, and North Andover Bridgewater State Forest Bridgewater Bridgewater Brimfield State Forest Brimfield Brimfield, Monson and Wales Bryant Mountain State Forest Cummington Cummington Buckland State Forest Buckland Buckland Cadwell Memorial State Forest Pelham Pelham and Belchertown Carlisle State Forest Carlisle Carlisle Catamount State Forest Colrain Colrain and Charlemont Chester-Blandford State Forest Chester Chester and Blandford Chesterfield Gorge State Forest Chesterfield Chesterfield Clarksburg State Forest Clarksburg Clarksburg and North Adams Conway State Forest Conway Conway and Williamsburg Cookson State Forest New Marlborough and Sandisfield D.A.R. State Forest Goshen Goshen, Ashfield and Williamsburg Dead Branch State Forest Chesterfield Chesterfield and Westhampton Douglas State Forest Douglas Douglas, Oxford and Webster East Branch State Forest Chesterfield Chesterfield East Mountain State Forest Great Barrington Great Barrington, New Marlborough and Sheffield Erving State Forest Erving Erving and Orange F. Gilbert Hills State Forest Foxboro Foxboro and Wrentham Federated Women's Club State Forest Petersham Petersham Florida State Forest Florida Florida and Clarksburg Franklin State Forest Franklin Franklin and Wrentham Freetown-Fall River State Forest Freetown Freetown, Fall River and Lakeville Georgetown-Rowley State Forest Georgetown Georgetown, Rowley and Boxford Gilbert A. Bliss State Forest Chesterfield Chesterfield and Cummington Granville State Forest Granville Granville and Tolland H.O. Cook State Forest Heath Heath and Colrain Harold Parker State Forest North Andover North Andover. Andover, Middleton and North Reading Hubbardston State Forest Hubbardston Hubbardston and Phillipston Huntington State Forest Huntington Huntington, Montgomery and Westhampton J. Harry Rich State Forest Groton Groton and Pepperell Kingston State Forest Kingston Kingston Kenneth Dubuque Memorial State Forest Hawley Hawley, Buckland, Plainfield and Windsor Krug Sugarbush State Forest Chesterfield Chesterfield Lancaster State Forest Lancaster Lancaster Lawton State Forest Athol Athol Leominster State Forest Leominster Leominster, Fitchburg, Princeton, Sterling and Westminster Leyden State Forest Leyden Leyden Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest Lowell Lowell, Dracut and Tyngsborough Ludlow State Forest Ludlow Ludlow Manuel F. Correllus State Forest Edgartown Edgartown Marlborough-Sudbury State Forest Marlborough, Hudson, Stow and Sudbury Martha's Vineyard State Forest Edgartown and West Tisbury Middlefield State Forest Middlefield Middlefield and Peru Mohawk Trail State Forest Charlemont Charlemont, Florida, Hawley and Savoy Monroe State Forest Monroe Monroe, Florida and Rowe Montague State Forest Montague Montague and Wendell Mount Grace State Forest Warwick Warwick Mount Toby State Forest Sunderland Sunderland, Leverett and Montague Mount Washington State Forest Mount Washington Mount Washington Myles Standish State Forest Carver Carver, Duxbury, Plymouth and Wareham Nantucket State Forest Nantucket Nantucket Natural Bridge State Forest North Adams North Adams and Clarksburg New Salem State Forest New Salem New Salem North Brookfield State Forest North Brookfield North Brookfield Northfield State Forest Northfield Northfield and Erving Oakham State Forest Oakham Oakham and Rutland October Mountain State Forest Lee Lee, Becket, Lenox, Pittsfield and Washington Orange State Forest Orange Orange Otis State Forest Otis Otis, Becket and Sandisfield Otter River State Forest Templeton Templeton Peru State Forest Peru Peru, Middlefield and Worthington Petersham State Forest Petersham Petersham and Athol Pittsfield State Forest Pittsfield Pittsfield, Hancock and Lanesborough Prospect Hill State Forest Rowley Rowley Raynham State Forest Raynham Raynham Rehoboth State Forest Rehoboth Rehoboth Richmond State Forest Richmond Richmond Rowe State Forest Rowe Rowe Royalston State Forest Royalston Royalston Sandisfield State Forest Sandisfield Sandisfield and New Marlborough Savoy Mountain State Forest Savoy Savoy, Adams, Florida and North Adams Shawme-Crowell State Forest Sandwich Sandwich and Bourne Shelburne State Forest Shelburne Shelburne Shutesbury State Forest Shutesbury Shutesbury and New Salem South River State Forest Conway Conway Spencer State Forest Spencer Spencer Sutton State Forest Sutton Sutton Taconic Trail State Forest Williamstown Williamstown and Hancock Templeton State Forest Templeton Templeton Tolland State Forest Tolland Tolland, Otis and Blandford Townsend State Forest Townsend Townsend Upton State Forest Upton Upton, Hopedale and Northbridge Warren H. Manning State Forest Billerica Billerica Warwick State Forest Warwick Warwick, Northfield, Orange and Royalston Wendell State Forest Wendell Wendell West Bridgewater State Forest West Bridgewater West Bridgewater West Brookfield State Forest West Brookfield West Brookfield Westminster State Forest Westminster Westminster, Gardner and Hubbardston Willard Brook State Forest Ashby Ashby, Fitchburg, Lunenburg and Townsend Willowdale State Forest Ipswich Ipswich, Boxford, Rowley and Topsfield Winchendon State Forest Winchendon Winchendon Windsor State Forest Windsor Windsor and Savoy Worthington State Forest Worthington Worthington Wrentham State Forest Wrentham Wrentham and Plainville
See also
List of national forests of the United States List of Massachusetts state parks
References
External links State Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation's Massachusetts State Parks DCR Forestry home page DCR - Forest Management Planning Eight districts of Forest Management