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  • Lemonade Out of Lemons, Habitat Out of Trees

    Sarah Kern
    September 18, 2023

    After Eversource cut down 40 pine trees along Little Harbor Road a few years ago due to safety concerns, the Forest Society's Creek Farm staff went to work by turning the trees into habitat.

  • Healing A Battered Brook Crossing at Gap Mountain

    Laurel Swope-Brush
    August 3, 2023

    Bog bridging helps forest regrowth on Gap Mountain.

  • Moving Rocks on Monadnock

    Laurel Swope-Brush
    July 20, 2023

    Even with the threat of rain and storms, volunteers accomplished major trail structural improvements and retained important ecosystems at Mount Monadnock and Gap Mountain during this year’s event.

Community Science Projects

Community science provides opportunities for volunteers to help with science research aimed at understanding the natural environment in New Hampshire.

Visitors to our forest reservations can contribute to environmental monitoring through digital photography with our Picture Posts. In addition, we train volunteers for long-term community science projects through partnerships with the American Chestnut Foundation and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.

Learn more about our community science opportunities and how to get involved by clicking the links below.

Picture post at Buxton-Simons Forest. Photo by MT Wallingford

Picture Post

Help us document forest change over time by submiting your photos to our picture posts at select forest reservations from Bethlehem to Hollis. Anyone with a smartphone or camera and access to the internet can contribute, no training is required! Instructions for how to take the photos are on each post.

See a list of our picture posts here
Sugar maple fall foliage

Sugar Maple Regeneration

We are teaming up with scientists at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest to launch a new citizen science project to study sugar maple seedling regeneration and see if sugar maples are struggling to maintain their place in our northern forests. Volunteers will collect data on Forset Society reservations in Stark, Orange, Cornish, and Dublin. The 2019 training is on Thursday, May 9 in North Woodstock.

Learn more about this project
American Chestnut

American Chestnut Seed Orchard

We're partnering with the American Chestnut Foundation to start seed orchard at the Tom Rush Forest in Deering in an effort to help develop a chesnut blight-resistant variety of American Chestnut. Chestnut orchard volunteers will help with planting or innoculation events, data collection, or with routine care of the orchard.

Learn about this beautiful tree and be a part of the restoration effort!
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