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Forest Society Guide to Winter Hiking & Recreation
A guide to plowed Forest Society reservations so you can recreate responsibly this winter.
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- Recreation,
- Land Conservation
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Cong. Pappas Co-sponsors Legislation to Establish New Forest Conservation Program
We encourage readers in his Congressional district to contact Rep. Pappas to thank him for efforts on this important legislation.
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- Advocacy
![A line of hikers make their way down a gravel road towards the camera.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/thefellshike5_6-10.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=0awKLUob)
Guess What? Spending time outside is good for you!
Protecting important green spaces and ensuring people have to access to them are not frivolous or minor goals.
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- Advocacy
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Party Animals
This summer’s rains have fruits and autumn seeds of many forest trees, and waxy fall berries of wetland shrubs and ornamental landscaping, yielding a bumper crop for birds and wildlife.
- Tags:
- Wildlife,
- Forest Journal
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Colleen O'Neil Accepts Tree Farm of the Year Award at Field Day
Attendees had an opportunity to tour the property to see the management practices being used to promote healthy forest and wildlife habitat.
- Tags:
- Working Forests
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Concord Project SEE Brings Students to Forest Society's Merrimack Floodplain
Nearly 300 students, teachers, and parents visited the floodplain as part of Project SEE.
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Something Wild: The Fungus Among Us
Neither plants nor animals, fungi are a kingdom all their own.
- Tags:
- Wildlife,
- Something Wild
![A young boy hikes through a field of ferns with his father behind him.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/5HC%2520monkman%2520kid%2520RS.jpg?h=279670ce&itok=bKLiMZSk)
5 Hikes Challenge: Make a Move
But what if we simply started to move more, not for the sake of moving, but for the pleasure of it?
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- Recreation