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Draft 2020 NH Forest Action Plan Available for Public Comment
The Forest Action Plan provides a comprehensive assessment of the condition of our state’s forests, their challenges and needs, and strategies for conserving these forested landscapes while enhancing the benefits we receive from them.
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- Advocacy
![Trees stand in a forest conservation easement.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/MorisonEasement_Peterborough_Best_Edited_portrait_0%2520RS.jpg?h=35f80530&itok=VjhsD9nW)
Federal Legislation Aims to Keep Working Forests as Forests
If enacted, the Forest Incentives Program Act will be one important tool forest landowners can use to sustainably manage their lands.
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- Advocacy,
- Working Forests,
- Climate
![Researcher Katie Galletta standing in High Five fields.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/2020-07-20_10-23-03_439.jpg?h=29234840&itok=CXsfjRhI)
Forest Journal: Milkweed Community Connections
Spotting a monarch caterpillar on the underside of a milkweed leaf is one of the quintessential rites of summer. In the right location, it’s not that hard to do...
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- Wildlife
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DETOUR AHEAD: Mt. Major Lot Closed (Roadside Parking ONLY); TRAILS OPEN
A trail restoration project at the base of Mount Major is progressing and is due to be wrapped up by the first week in October.
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- Recreation
![Members of the President's Foresters Council gather for a photo in the conference room at the Forest Society.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/president%2520foresters%2520counsel%2520RS.jpg?h=279670ce&itok=1mHYOLy0)
Remembering Conservationist Harold Janeway
The former Board of Trustees Chair made big ideas attainable with his soft-spoken leadership, including the establishment of the Trust for New Hampshire Lands.
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Something Wild: Earliest flush of Red Maple foliage
Naturalist Dave Anderson shares the story behind "Judas Trees," as a very few early green leaves have already started to change to red.
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- Recreation,
- Something Wild
![Hikers enjoying autumn view of Lake Winnipesaukee and Belknap Range from summit of Pine Mountain on Forest Society Morse Preserve](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/RESIZED%2520Morse%2520Preserve%2520Alton%252010-18-19%2520Kate%2520Wilcox%2520photo.jpg?h=0e753701&itok=c3G9oQoJ)
Take the "Five Hikes Challenge"
For those inclined to head out to hiking trails in the next two months, the best is yet to come. September and October unquestionably offer the very best hiking conditions of the year: distant mountains in sharp relief under bright cobalt blue skies, lower humidity, few mosquitoes, no blackflies or deer flies, warm afternoons, cool mornings and evenings and spectacular autumn foliage colors.