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  • Coastal Forest at Creek Farm: Living On The Edge

    Dave Anderson
    March 22, 2019

    Where once-vast inland forests meet the rocky extremes of coastal rivers and shallow brackish, tidal estuaries, the combined effects of weather, ...

  • Forest Society Conserves an Additional 36 acres at Emery Farm

    February 9, 2018

    DURHAM — The Society for the Protection of N.H. Forests bought an additional 36-acre conservation easement from the landowners of Emery Farm.

    Emery Farm has been a part of the fabric of the Seacoast for generations and has been locally run and operated by the same family for more than 350 ...

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  • Emery Farm Conservation Project

    November 17, 2017

    Located six minutes from Oyster River High School, Emery Farm is locally run and has been operating for over 350 years. Hills has offered the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests a 36 acre conservation easement far below market price at $1.4 million. The Forest Society has $80K of ...

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Coastal Watershed Plan

Smith Farm Conservation Easement, 30 Acres, Durham. Conserved in 2007 with the help of The Great Bay Resource Partnership. Forest Society Photo.
The Great Bay Resource Partnership, of which the Society for the Protection of NH Forests is a principal partner, uses a science-based approach to identify and conserve the most significant lands through the purchase or donation of land and conservation easements. The Partnership has permanently conserved 107 properties totaling 6,016 acres in the Great Bay region. The steady progress has contributed to a total of 54,412 acres of conservation and public land in the Great Bay region.

Conserved properties have protected some of the largest unfragmented blocks of natural lands in the watershed. Conserved lands include extensive upland forests, grasslands, and early successional shrubland habitat critical to the viability of many wildlife species of conservation concern. Embedded within the conserved lands is a mosaic of diverse freshwater and estuarine habitats including forested wetlands, beaver-managed stream systems, open marshes, floodplain forests, saltmarsh, intertidal rocky shoreline and mud flats.  Partnership conserved lands have protected 24.5 miles of shoreline, 59.5 miles of stream frontage and 1,882 acres of wetlands.

For more information contact Brian Hotz at (603) 224-9945 or bhotz@forestsociety.org

For more extensive information, visit the Partnership’s website at http://www.greatbaypartnership.org/

Great Bay Partnership Map
For Downloadable maps, plans and shapefiles:

Core Focus Areas
   PDF 6.32 MB (large format)

Opportunities and Composite Map in Southeastern NH
Sweet Trail Guide and Map
Sweet Trail Map only

Coastal Plan
    PDF 17.1 MB

Shapefiles
  Conservation Focus Areas (620 kb zip file)

 

Seacoast

Related Resources

Coastal Core Focus Areas

Southeast Core Focus Areas
 

Land Conservation Plan for NH's Coastal Watersheds

2006, Land Conservation Plan for NH's Coastal Watersheds

Sweet Trail Map only

Just the Sweet Trail Map

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