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Staying Open to Adventure
Forest Society members share an easy, solitary adventure during a time of social distancing.
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- Recreation,
- Membership
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All Systems Go
What are Forest Society foresters up to during the global pandemic? Manager Wendy Weisiger shares her "social distancing" strategy.
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- Working Forests,
- Timber Harvesting
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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Late winter sunshine strengthens, days grow warm and snowmelt accelerates in the northern half of New Hampshire. South-facing slopes open-up early. Acorn-producing red oak trees grow best on steep, well-drained south and west-facing slopes.
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- Wildlife
![A view of a lake in summer sunshine with a sailboat on the water.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Lake%2520Massabesic%2520ABerry.jpg?h=e7dd9e34&itok=9KzOttQh)
Press Release: Lake Massabesic Shoreline Conserved
“The Forest Society has long recognized that one of the ways that our work protecting forests connects to people’s everyday lives is by providing clean drinking water,” said Jack Savage, president for the Forest Society.
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- Land Conservation,
- Clean Water
Re-energized Effort to Fully Fund Land and Water Conservation Fund Emerges
The United States Senate will soon consider, possibly this week, the Great American Outdoors Act. If the legislation is ultimately signed into law, it will add to the growing impact the program has had on New Hampshire’s landscape.
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- Advocacy,
- Land Conservation,
- Clean Water
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Advocacy Update: House Committee on Resources, Recreation and Development votes to send HB 1316 to Interim Study
The House Committee on Resources, Recreation and Development recently voted to send HB 1316 to “Interim Study."
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- Advocacy,
- Recreation
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Action Alert: Forest Society Joins Conservation Partners to Oppose Proposal to Revise the National Environmental Policy Act
The Forest Society recently joined many conservation partners to oppose the Council on Environmental Quality proposed rule to significantly revise the National Environmental Policy Act.
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- Advocacy