• Massachusetts is the 8th most forested state in the nation.
• Massachusetts has 62 percent forest cover.
• In western Massachusetts, some towns have over 90 percent forest cover.
• 79 percent of all forestland in the state is privately owned.
• Private landowners are the key to forest conservation in MA.  In order for landowners to afford to keep their forests, they must have markets for the wood that they grow.  A biomass plant in western MA would supply the region with a much-needed market for low-grade wood.  Multiple markets for locally grown wood are essential to the conservation of the region's forests.
• According to MA Audobon, 40 acres of fields and forests are lost to development each day in Massachusetts.