The Massachusetts Department of Fish & Game's five-year strategic plan Connections: Together for Nature will focus our efforts on solutions at the intersection of biodiversity, climate change, and environmental justice.
About this Strategic Plan
The Department of Fish & Game's Strategic Plan is an internal plan to guide the agency's work from 2025-2030. Created collaboratively across the four Divisions— Division of Ecological Restoration (DER), Division of Fisheries & Wildlife (MassWildlife), Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF), and Office of Fishing & Boating Access—this plan will allow us to leverage the necessary funding and resources to expand our impact, respond with urgency to the challenges of today, and above all, better serve the people of the Commonwealth.
Why Connections? As wildlife and fisheries biologists, botanists, foresters, restoration ecologists, marine scientists, engineers, and more—we know first-hand that all life is interconnected. To face the crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, and environmental injustice, we must come together, invest strategically, and strengthen our connections to each other and nature.
Three themes—biodiversity & climate, environmental justice, and relevance, visibility, & capacity—frame the goals that we seek to accomplish by 2030. When achieved, this plan will move the Commonwealth toward a more nature-positive future where plants and animals thrive and all people have an opportunity to feel a sense of appreciation, belonging, and connection to nature.
As we put this plan into action, one thing is clear. Achieving the goals outlined is critical to the Commonwealth’s future, but we cannot do it alone. We hope you will join us!
Strategic Plan Charts
Use the links below to jump to charts for each theme that detail the goals, objectives, actions, and key results we aim to achieve by 2030.