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![Looking up at blue sky through fall maple leaves](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Fallleaves.jpg?h=3894fe6a&itok=Ru9m1mr6)
NH Legislative Committee Votes to Oppose Anti-Conservation Easement Bill
Join us in thanking the committee members who voted in opposition to the bill.
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- Advocacy
![The marker was unveiled on a stone at the property.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/BHTNH%2520due%2520family%2520marker%2520event%2520rock%2520and%2520sky%25209-18-21.jpg?h=4cb23e29&itok=LqmLRdwR)
Black Heritage Trail NH Marker Added to the John Kulish Forest/Welch Family Farm
The Hancock marker describes the Due family and Jack, a once-enslaved African who gained his freedom and lived in Hancock in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
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- Stewardship
![A birds-eye view of the Merrimack River meandering next to Stillhouse Forest.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Monkman_Stillhouse%2520Forest%2520RS.jpg?h=d9d430fa&itok=9SN8mGNE)
The Merrimack River: How Revisiting Its History Helps to Renew Action
A new book sheds light on the Merrimack's complicated relationship with manmade elements and provides insights on current threats.
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- Clean Water
![A bald-faced hornet nest is pictured close to a house's eaves.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/bald%2520faced%2520hornet%2520nest%2520photo%2520Jane%2520Difley%2520SW.jpeg?h=68256770&itok=zjLnWnd0)
Something Wild: Ouch! What Just Stung Me?
As the fall approaches, wasps and hornets get more aggressive. How can you tell what's buzzing around, and when it's safe to get rid of a nest?
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- Wildlife,
- Something Wild
![Dave Anderson paddles by a statue and looks up from the river.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Photo%25201_Merrimack_Summer%252021_DaveandDustonStatue_RS_Carrie%2520Deegan.jpeg?h=a6a9b101&itok=oj2xgUn8)
Paddling to the Past
Learn about the indigenous history of the Merrimack River and how advocates are trying to restore it today.
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- Recreation,
- Land Conservation
Black Heritage Trail NH to Unveil Marker at Forest Society Reservation
The marker to be unveiled September 18 will be the first outside of Portsmouth on the Black Heritage Trail.
![Congresswoman Kuster and SPNHF President Jack Savage standing in front of misty view of the White Mountains at The Rocks in Bethlehem.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/KusterandJackSavage.jpg?h=52d3fcb6&itok=n3CC17_H)
Congresswoman Kuster Visits The Rocks
Congresswoman Kuster received a briefing on plans for Forest Society North at The Rocks
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- Advocacy
![Green water reflects a stand of trees at Moose Mountains.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/HERO%2520moose%2520mountains%2520jpg%2520monkman.jpg?h=5bf672e5&itok=CCabO82j)
U.S. Senate Restores Support for Important Conservation Program
In New Hampshire, the program provided crucial support to conservation work around Great Bay, the Forest Society’s Moose Mountains Reservation and several other projects in the Seacoast region.
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- Advocacy