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  • Forest Advocate: House Committee Delays Final Vote on NH Energy Site Evaluation Committee Legislation

    Matt Leahy
    March 20, 2023

    We will re-engage on the bill when the Committee takes up the bill again in September.

  • Forest Advocate: NH House to Consider Landfill Siting Legislation

    Matt Leahy
    March 17, 2023

    Contact your representative in support of this bill.

  • ADVOCACY ALERT: Hearing on Site Evaluation Committee legislation extended to Monday

    Matt Leahy
    March 9, 2023

    If you have not already registered your opposition, we urge you to do so.

New Ecological Tool for State Land Managers

SB 269
Will Abbott
April 16, 2019
Advocacy
Natural Resources
Volunteers hike tools and gear up Mount Monadnock for trail stewardship projects with the Forest Society and NH State Parks
Volunteers hike up Mount Monadnock to complete annual trail stewardship projects with the Forest Society and NH State Parks. Emily Lord/Forest Society Photo.

State Senator Ruth Ward (R-Stoddard) has introduced legislation SB 269 to create a new ecological tool to assist the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources (DNCR) in the management of state-owned lands. Called the Upland Ecological Integrity Assessment, the tool will provide new scientific information to public land managers responsible for the stewardship of more than 200,000 acres of state-owned land. 

Co-sponsored by Senator David Watters (D-Dover), SB 269 appropriates $100,000 for the $150,000 project, enabling staff at DNCR’s Natural Heritage Bureau (NHB) to build the tool over the next two years. NHB has matching funds of $50,000 in hand. The bill was approved by the Senate on March 7 and is now before the House. The Forest Society testified in support of the bill at the Resources, Recreation & Development Committee on April 2. 

The Upland EIA will provide scientific guidance in assessing impacts of particular management decisions (such as a prescribed fire treatment or building a new trail), as well as the impacts of key stressors (like forest fragmentation) on sensitive natural communities on state lands. The Upland EIA will complement a Wetlands EIA developed by the NHB in 2015.     

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