A conservation-minded family has added 7 more acres of scenic, highly desirable land in Bartlett to the 195 acres it had previously conserved nearby, by donating a conservation easement on the land to the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.
Jeanne LaCroix Crocker, with help from her son Todd Crocker, has donated the easement on 7 acres located on the west side of Thorn Hill Road. In 1989, the family conserved an abutting 22-acre parcel and a 173-acre parcel nearby in Bartlett and Jackson.
“While 7 acres statistically is not a huge chunk of land in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of acres protected in this area by the White Mountain National Forest and others, the development pressures on this incredibly scenic, highly desirable land are immense,” said Joslin Bennett, an easement steward with the Forest Society. “Additionally, this productive lowland spruce-fir and northern hardwood conifer forest offers valuable habitat for wildlife.”
A conservation easement allows landowners to maintain ownership of the land while protecting it from development at any time in the future.