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  • Northern Pass Files Appeal Brief With Supreme Court

    Will Abbott
    February 15, 2019

    Northern Pass filed its appeal brief ...

  • Proposed House Bill Will Undermine the Site Evaluation Committee Process

    Matt Leahy
    February 14, 2019

    House Bill 454, ...

  • Newly Protected Farmland in Hillsborough Strengthens Existing Conservation Areas

    Brian Hotz
    January 30, 2019

    In 2005, James and Cynthia Thorburn donated a conservation easement to the Forest Society on more than 25 acres of land in Hillsborough. In 2017, ...

Current Land Protection and Advocacy Projects

The Forest Society and our partners recently conserved 980 acres in the Belknap Mountains overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee. Jerry and Marcy Monkman / EcoPhotography.
Each year, the Forest Society adds thousands of acres to our treasury of conserved land. We work with landowners, donors, grant organizations, partner land trusts, conservation commissions and local and state governments to identify worthy properties, negotiate their purchase or protection through easements, raise money and manage each project until we can triumphantly register a new deed. 

We also devote time and resources to forest advocacy, providing leadership and informing public debate on conservation issues statewide. 

Mount Monadnock - view from Pitcher Mtn. Photo by Sue Lichty
 Current projects include: 

Protecting Our Drinking Water: Manchester Water Works Project

Trees Not Towers Northern Pass Defense Fund

Volunteer Land Stewards Program

Online Guide to Our Reservations

 

 

McAllaster Farm photo

Trees Not Towers! No Northern Pass

Are you ready to help defend the state's greatest asset, our scenic working landscape, from the biggest threat of our generation?

Northern Pass is a proposed powerline that would inflict a 187-mile scar across two-thirds of the New Hampshire landscape with more than 1,500 towers up to 150 feet high. Proposed by Northeast Utilities for the exclusive use of Canadian mega-utility Hydro Quebec, Northern Pass would be a private transmission line. There has been no determination of need for this proposal.

Learn how you can help defend New Hampshire from Northern Pass.
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A Charity Navigator four star charity

For its sound fiscal management and commitment to accountability and transparency, the Forest Society has received Charity Navigator's highest rating.

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Related Resources

Draft National Forest Decision on Northern Pass

Click below to read the draft Record of Decision by (recently retired) White Mountain National Forest Supervisor Tom Wagner. His cover letter explains the document:

 

Dear Interested Party,

 I’m writing to let you know that I have issued the draft Record of Decision (ROD) ...

National Grid Proposes New Transmission Line

Press release announcing the Granite State Power Link, a new transmission line from Quebec through Vermont and New Hampshire.

Letter to Eversource from Counsel for the Public Peter Roth

This letter seeking answers to certain questions regarding potential funding for Northern Pass construction was sent by Counsel for the Public Peter Roth to Eversource in March 2017.

Prime wetlands habitat in Goffstown.
Moose Mountains Addition, Middleton

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Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests54 Portsmouth St.Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603.224.9945Fax: 603.228.0423info@forestsociety.org