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Field Forester Steve Junkin holds eggs laid in a vernal pool at Tebbetts Hill Reservation in Farmington.

Forestry Friday: Vernal Pools & Forestry

March 17, 2022

With the warm wet weather and the onset of spring, this is one of the best times of the year to plan and lay out a timber harvest.

Gabe Roxby and his three daughters and wife sit outside around a fire while boiling sap.

What We Did for Winter Vacation

Anna Berry | March 11, 2022

While we don't get a winter February vacation like school kids anymore, we did manage to get outside and enjoy all that New Hampshire has to offer in the colder months.

Something Wild: Are there more bobcats in N.H.? Or just more wildlife cameras?

Dave Anderson, Chris Martin, Jessica Hunt | March 11, 2022

The number of pictures of bobcats in New Hampshire on social media has us wondering if there are more bobcats in New Hampshire?

UNH grad students in parkas survey from bank of Merrimack River

UNH CoastWise Program visits Forest Society's Merrimack River Floodplain

Dave Anderson | March 8, 2022

Students and UNH staff hiked the main trail to the river through the white pine plantation to the riverbank to learn about land conservation and the Merrimack River Conservation Partnership Program.

A robin with buff red breast perched amid snowy alder catkins

Concord Merrimack River Floodplain March Birds and Trees

Ellen Kenny, Dave Anderson | March 3, 2022

As the calendar page flipped to March, news from natural world includes early bird harbingers of Spring.

Tom Thomson owner of the Thomson Family Tree Farm with grandson Jaden Thomson. Both are holding tree "cookies' in front of a sign for Thomson Tree Farm. (Courtesy of Tom Thomson)

Forestry Friday: 250th Anniversary of the Pine Tree Riot

Dave Anderson | March 2, 2022

In the early 1700s more and more people were leaving England and coming to the American Colonies for a new life and hoping for less control from King George III. Forestry was an important industry in the new colonies and continues to be in NH today.

NH State House dome seen from Conservation Center in winter covered in snow.

House Committee to Vote on Bill Proposing Detrimental Changes to the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee

Matt Leahy | February 25, 2022

Contact members of the Committee on Science, Technology and Energy in the NH House of Representatives to express opposition.

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