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  • The Old Man & the Forest Society

    Dave Anderson, Anna Berry
    May 3, 2023

    In 1923, the Forest Society led a campaign to purchase 6,000 acres in Franconia Notch, including the Old Man of the Mountain, the Flume, the Basin, and two mountain lakes.

  • 2023 Tree Farmer of the Year: Colleen O'Neill

    Rita Carroll
    April 5, 2023

    Langwood Tree Farm has participated in the N.H. Tree Farm program since 1979

  • Forestry Friday: Watching for Beech Leaf Disease

    Steven Junkin
    March 31, 2023

    Our foresters share what they learned at a NE meeting of foresters.

Jane Difley on The Exchange

Retiring President/Forester Reflects on 23 Years as the Head of the Forest Society
September 10, 2019
Working Forests
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Jane Difley President Forester SPNHF
Jane Difley, who has served as President/Forester of the Forest Society since 1996, is retiring at the end of September 2019.

Jane Difley, the first female president of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, is retiring on October 1, 2019, after 23 years. As a licensed forester, she has seen forest management evolve since she was a Forest Society intern in the 1970s. Her conservation leadership of the state's scenic landscapes includes establishing and getting dedicated funding for L-CHIP, as well as playing a role in the protection of the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters, the Balsams, and Mount Major. The Forest Society was also a leader in the fight against the Northern Pass transmission pipeline.

Click below to listen to or read the interview with Laura Knoy on NHPR's The Exchange.

Jane Difley Preserving New Hampshire's Forests for two decades

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