Founded by a handful of concerned citizens in 1901, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is one of the country's most effective statewide land conservation organizations.
The NH Supreme Court has agreed to hear Northern Pass's appeal of the Site Evaluation Committee’s unanimous decision to deny a siting permit. Our legal team will be there to ensure the Court fully understands the SEC's decision. We need your financial support to make our case to the Supreme Court. Please donate today to say—for a final time—no to Northern Pass.
We are in the homestretch on the fundraising to support the acquisition and stewardship of a new 234-acre reservation in Canterbury & Northfield. We have until the end of February to raise the final $25,000 to meet our $343,000 goal. This property is rich in conservation values and, with more than 5,300 feet of frontage along the Merrimack River, it is accessible from the river by canoe and kayak.
It’s stick season in New Hampshire; the leaves are gone, our landscape exposed; a white nivean blanket covers everything you see. Our trees are dormant. Aren’t they? To look at them, it wouldn’t seem that trees aren’t doing much right now.
Even as the smoke still rises from the ashes at the site of the fire that destroyed the 4 ½-story historic Tool Building at the Rocks, staff at the Forest Society are starting to figure out next steps to restoring programming at its North Country Conservation and Education Center.
