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Carey Cottage restoration progresses through pandemic
August 18, 2020Seacoast Online recently covered the ongoing construction at Carey Cottage, located at the Forest Society's Creek Farm Reservation.
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- Creek Farm,
- Recreation
Public Hearing Scheduled on Nash Stream State Forest ATV Trail
Raise your voice if you have concerns about future use of the Nash Stream Forest by August 20.
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- Advocacy,
- Land Conservation
New State Forester Nomination
Contact your Executive Councilor in support of the nomination of Patrick Hackley as the next NH State Forester.
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- Working Forests,
- Advocacy
Great American Outdoors Act Signed Into Law
On August 4, the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act was signed into law. That action crowns the efforts Land and Water Conservation Fund advocates, including the Forest Society, have been making over the last decade to fully fund the LWCF.
DETOUR AHEAD: Mt. Major Lot Closed (Roadside Parking ONLY; TRAILS OPEN) as Visitor Experience Improved
The parking lot at Mt. Major will be temporarily closed after Labor Day for about four weeks as the Forest Society improves the visitor experience by repairing drainage and erosion problems at the base of the Main (Blue) Trail.
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- Recreation
Settlers may have abandoned Monson Center in 1770, but it's a pretty ghost town today
July 30, 2020"[T]his picturesque historic site, presided over since 1998 by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, is a complicated collection of things lost and found in hardscrabble ground."
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- Recreation,
- Land Conservation
Forest Journal: "Mothing" For Beginners
The moths we have here in New Hampshire range in size from the 5-7” Cecropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia), fully as large as an adult hand, to “micromoths” so tiny that you’ll need a hand lens just to see that they are actually moths.
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- Wildlife