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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.

Senator Shaheen Talks Farm Bill at the Forest Society

Matt Leahy
February 14, 2023
Advocacy
Senator Shaheen and leaders of local conservation groups are gathered at a table in the conference room.
Senator Shaheen and leaders of local conservation groups gathered to discuss the U.S. Farm Bill on February 10 at the Forest Society's Conservation Center in Concord.

Joined by members of the New Hampshire conservation and forestry community, Senator Jeanne Shaheen recently led a roundtable conversation on the pending reauthorization of the federal Farm Bill. The Farm Bill is one of the most consequential pieces of legislation that Congress must act on. Reauthorized every five years, the legislation funds nutrition and food programs, agriculture supports and key conservation programs. 

For a summary of the act, click here and for information on the conservation programs, click here.

Those conservation programs play a significant part in the conservation work here in New Hampshire. The Forest Society has used this assistance, such as the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), on several of our conservation projects.

One of the points of discussion was the conservation community’s interest in the creation of a new program within the Farm Bill- the Forest Conservation Easement Program. Modeled after ACEP, the Forest Conservation Easement Program would become another option available to land trusts help them conservation easements on forestlands.

Joining Senator Shaheen at the meeting were:

  • Anne Truslow, Vice President for Development, Forest Society
  • Brian Hotz, Vice President for Land Conservation, Forest Society
  • Meredith Hatfield, Associate Director for Policy and Government Relations for the Nature Conservancy-NH
  • Donna Hepp, State Conservation Committee, Chair & President of NH Association of Conservation Districts
  • Jasen Stock, Executive Director of NH Timberland Owners
  • Jen Pribble, Executive Director of Upper Saco Valley Land Trust
  • Ryan Owens, Executive Director, Monadnock Conservancy
  • Jeanie McIntyre, President, Upper Valley Land Trust
  • Barbara Richter, Executive Director, NH Association of Conservation Commissions
  • Matt Leahy, Public Policy Director, Forest Society

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