Forest Society Blog - News & Features

The remaining forestland owned by the Wright family in rural Lempster includes the open summit of aptly named “Silver Mountain,” elevation 2,160’. The family-owned “Wright’s Silver Polish” of Keene is a product well known to those whose silverware annually graces holiday dinner tables.

Forest Society Conserves 100 Acres on the North Side of Bartlett Mountain

 

Concord, NH, September 9, 2009 — The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has conserved 100 acres on the north side of Bartlett Mountain in Bartlett.

Forest Society Invites Public to Tour Silver Mountain, Long Pond, and Sand Pond 

John Rockwood’s Art on Display at Conservation Center in Concord

 

John Rockwood’s wildlife photography will be on display through October 12 at the Conservation Center in Concord, NH.

Renowned New England naturalist, John Hay will celebrate his 94th birthday tomorrow on August 31.

DES Announces Merrimack River Watershed Grants

Forest Society Receives $300,000 to Help Conserve 294 Acres in Canterbury

There’s a dirt road I travel on my way to and from work that I hope will change very little. It’s not long—less than three miles from either end of the pavement it bridges.

Just a short drive from downtown Keene, the Greater Goose Pond Forest has been a favorite place to relax, cool off, and get the kids outdoors for local residents since the mid-1980s. But it until recently, it was not permanently conserved open space.