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![Gabe Roxby and his three daughters and wife sit outside around a fire while boiling sap.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Winterstaff_GabeRoxbymaplesyrup_3-22.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=-1oH7NZq)
What We Did for Winter Vacation
While we don't get a winter February vacation like school kids anymore, we did manage to get outside and enjoy all that New Hampshire has to offer in the colder months.
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Something Wild: Are there more bobcats in N.H.? Or just more wildlife cameras?
The number of pictures of bobcats in New Hampshire on social media has us wondering if there are more bobcats in New Hampshire?
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- Wildlife,
- Something Wild
![UNH grad students in parkas survey from bank of Merrimack River](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Students%2520closer%2520look%2520at%2520river.%2520Photo%2520Tim%2520Briggs.jpg?h=ed442418&itok=SbMa3Ed0)
UNH CoastWise Program visits Forest Society's Merrimack River Floodplain
Students and UNH staff hiked the main trail to the river through the white pine plantation to the riverbank to learn about land conservation and the Merrimack River Conservation Partnership Program.
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- Advocacy,
- Clean Water,
- Education
![A robin with buff red breast perched amid snowy alder catkins](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Robin%2520in%2520Alder%2520catkins%2520EK.jpg?h=52d3fcb6&itok=Aa7ZXkV9)
Concord Merrimack River Floodplain March Birds and Trees
As the calendar page flipped to March, news from natural world includes early bird harbingers of Spring.
![Tom Thomson owner of the Thomson Family Tree Farm with grandson Jaden Thomson. Both are holding tree "cookies' in front of a sign for Thomson Tree Farm. (Courtesy of Tom Thomson)](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/FF_TomThomsonphoto_3-22.jpg?h=1292b83d&itok=6aE8whuE)
Forestry Friday: 250th Anniversary of the Pine Tree Riot
In the early 1700s more and more people were leaving England and coming to the American Colonies for a new life and hoping for less control from King George III. Forestry was an important industry in the new colonies and continues to be in NH today.
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- Forest Society History
![Dark iridescent male turkey with blue and red head and a beard strutting against snowy white backdrop](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Male%2520turkey%2520in%2520snow.%2520RESIZED%2520Photo%2520Tom%2520Thomson%252C%2520Orford.jpg?h=0e753701&itok=pPwLsM7m)
Tom Turkey Display
The undeniably stronger late winter sunlight is the agent of change in the forests and fields of New Hampshire.
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- Wildlife
![NH State House dome seen from Conservation Center in winter covered in snow.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/NH%2520state%2520house%2520from%2520conservation%2520center.jpg?h=aaa1136e&itok=ZX5Ce2DS)
House Committee to Vote on Bill Proposing Detrimental Changes to the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee
Contact members of the Committee on Science, Technology and Energy in the NH House of Representatives to express opposition.
- Tags:
- Advocacy
![ATV rutting in muddy trail in woods.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/ATV%2520rutting_1.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=DZSAX1Pr)
Legislative Committee Approves Bill to Establish a Commission to Study OHRV Use in the State
The Committee-passed version includes on the study commission a representative from either the Forest Society, the Appalachian Mountain Club or the Nature Conservancy on the Study Commission.
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- Advocacy