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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.

How to Become a Land Steward

Pictured above is the 2016 Land Steward training class.


We have transitioned the long-standing Land Steward Training to a *new* online-hybrid volunteer training program which was launched in Spring 2021. New volunteer Land Stewards are required to participate in the training program before being assigned a forest reservation.

Topics covered in the training include Forest Society organizational overview, forest management and timber harvesting, trail maintenance, map & survey reading and compass navigation, community engagement, and recreation management. Online presentations & webinars will be supplimented with in-the-field timber harvest tours, small group & one-on-one visits to a forest near you!
 

For more information about becoming a volunteer Land Steward, please email Laurel Swope-Brush.

 

We are looking for volunteers in these areas:

(This list was last updated 1/19/2021)

Hillsborough County:

  • Deering - John & Anna King Forest
  • New Ipswich - Nottingham Property 

Merrimack County:

Cheshire County:

  • Stoddard - Rumrill

Sullivan County:

Carroll Country:

  • Contact us if you are interested in partnering with existing stewards on a property in Carroll County

Coos County:

  • Pittsburg - Brundage Forest


There may also be opportunities on other forest reservations.
Contact us for more info about specific Forest Society Reservations

 

 

 

 

 

 

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