MassAcorn
MassAcorn is a website created by the University of Massachusetts for landowners in the Highlands region. It offers visitors the unique ability to ask questions of a natural resource professional through an online forum and to find local professional contacts. It includes an online mapping function which features many of the MassGIS layers as well as some not generally available.
Center for Rural Massachusetts
The Center for Rural Massachusetts carries out applied research focusing on ways that growth can be managed and controlled through actions of rural communities.
Massachusetts Rural Development Council
The council is a non-profit partnership of national, state, municipal and private entities that offers assistance to rural communities on social, economic and environmental projects.
Franklin County Cooperative Inspection Program
A community service mandated by the state and financed by the Franklin Regional Council of Governments, this program was formed in 1975 to provide building inspection coverage and zoning enforcement for rural towns.