Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers |
Natural Climate Solutions Project
Framingham ● Hudson ● Natick
Working Together for Healthier
Forests, Fields, Wetlands, and People:
The Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord River Communities
Resilient Lands Management Project
The Town of Hudson, Town of Natick and the City of Framingham, Massachusetts are working together with residents and landowners to identify ways to care for and steward forests, open space, wetlands, and soils through the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord River Natural Climate Solutions (SuAsCo NCS) project. This project is developing place-based land use and land management strategies that can enhance the potential of forests, open spaces, wetlands, and soils – and the rules and regulations that shape them – to contribute to healthy, equitable, climate-resilient and thriving communities.
The SuAsCo NCS project is funded through the Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Action Grant program. The project implements recommendations from the Apple Country Natural Climate Solutions Project, (a previous MVP Action Grant project) to support long-term resilience to the impacts of climate change in the region.
Land Acknowledgement
The Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers Natural Climate Solutions project is taking place on the traditional territories of the Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Agawam tribes, who inhabited these lands and were forcibly removed from them around the time of the 1643 Lancaster taking of land in the region by European colonizers. Land is essential to human understanding of our personal and collective identities, to our health and well-being, and to our very survival as a species on this planet. With this land acknowledgment, we recognize the violence inherent in the separation of a people from their territory, and the conflict and suffering that this continues to create today. The project team is working to include, collaborate with, uplift and celebrate the voices and priorities of Indigenous Peoples and institutions in this project, and in the ongoing fight for climate justice.