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![A mask-clad hiker pauses at the trailhead at Mount Major.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/mt%2520major%2520trail%2520work%2520iii.jpeg?h=af5dbc32&itok=CnxIAIuJ)
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
![A wood sign at the entrance to Monson Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/1_monsoncentersign.jpg?h=5eef411c&itok=puxI0BB3)
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
![Colorful complex black and orange pattern of Virgin Tiger Moth suggests a stained glass window pattern](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Virgin_Tiger_Moth%2520%2528RESIZED%2529.jpg?h=e970c49e&itok=j3BPn3w8)
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
U.S. House approves Great American Outdoors Act
In an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the Great American Outdoors Act.
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- Advocacy,
- Recreation
![Hammock suspended between two apple trees in late summer sunlight](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Hammock%2520light%2520RESIZED.jpg?h=707772c7&itok=odneLcof)
Something Wild: The Wheel
Naturalist Dave Anderson cites many mid-summer milestones including reduced bird songs, common ditch-weed flowers, and shooting stars which reveal the summer season passing faster than expected.
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- Wildlife,
- Something Wild
![Green apples glisten with morning dew.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/RESIZED%2520green%2520apples.%2520Photo%2520Karla%2520Salathe.jpg?h=66b6f79f&itok=o1bJKhTG)
Apples, Acorns Aplenty!
Foresters, wildlife biologists and homeowners are watching a strong year for the development of the forest foods that will ripen into autumn apples, acorns and even a good pine seed crop in New Hampshire forests. Fruit trees and oak forests with acorns are THE supermarkets of the forest.
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- Stewardship,
- Wildlife