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  • Help Keep New Hampshire Beautiful, Practice Leave No Trace

    Matt Scaccia
    May 15, 2023

    It's the perfect time of year to remember what it means to recreate responsibly and help care for the resources we all enjoy.

  • Forest Society Celebrates Earth Day at Mt Major

    Kelly Whalen
    April 11, 2023

    Love Mt. Major? Help keep it clean!

  • 2023 Tree Farmer of the Year: Colleen O'Neill

    Rita Carroll
    April 5, 2023

    Langwood Tree Farm has participated in the N.H. Tree Farm program since 1979

Forestry & Land Use

The Forest Society owns and manages more than 55,000 acres of land in more than 100 New Hampshire municipalities (see our Reservations Guide).  We advocate for the “wise use” of forestry resources, and work with state and federal leaders and private landowners to assure that laws governing forestry and land use also promote wise use of forest resources.   

New Hampshire’s state forestry laws are designed to protect the forest and the private landowners who manage forested lands.  They are predicated on voluntary forest management practices articulated in a publication titled Good Forestry in the Granite State, prepared under the direction of the State Forester and 25 stakeholders and groups with an interest in the State’s forests.  The Forest Society was an active participant in the creation of this publication.  Copies are available at $20 each, or free electronically.

Current Use was created by an amendment to the New Hampshire Constitution in 1968 that enables owners of ten acres of land (or more) to be assessed a property tax which reflects the land’s current undeveloped use.  Land enrolled in current use is not necessarily permanently protected; however while enrolled it remains undeveloped, with uses limited to open space, forestry, and agriculture. 

We partner with the Granite State Division of the Society of American Foresters, the UNH Cooperative Extension, the NH Department of Resources and Economic Development's Division of Forests and Lands and the NH Timberland Owners Association to administer the New Hampshire Tree Farm Program.  NH Tree Farm has more than 1,500 members with more than 450,000 acres of timberland enrolled.      

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Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests54 Portsmouth St.Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603.224.9945Fax: 603.228.0423info@forestsociety.org
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