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  • From Neglected to Protected: Coskie Family & Forest Society Protect 70 Acres in the Moose Mountains

    Kelly Whalen
    November 28, 2023

    While the Coskie family will continue to own the land and manage it for sustainable forestry, the conservation easement protects the natural features forever.

  • Forest Advocate: U.S. Releases Fifth National Climate Assessment

    Matt Leahy
    November 27, 2023

    The report says precipitation events have increased by about 60% in the Northeast.

  • NH to Undertake Update of the State Climate Action Plan

    Matt Leahy
    November 27, 2023

    The State aims to develop a plan with three broad goals.

On a Grand Scale

March 9, 2009

It is a region so beautiful and important that it brought together nearly 30 private conservation organizations and public agencies in two states to protect it. The Quabbin to Cardigan Initiative is a collaborative, landscape-scale effort to conserve the Monadnock Highlands of north-central Massachusetts and western New Hampshire. Spanning 100 miles from the Quabbin Reservoir northward to Mount Cardigan and the White Mountain National Forest, the area is bound to the east and west by the Merrimack and Connecticut River valleys.

Encompassing approximately 2 million acres, the Quabbin to Cardigan region includes one of the largest remaining interconnected, ecologically significant forests in central New England, naturally collecting and filtering drinking water for almost 200 cities and towns.

The region’s managed timberlands provide forest products and renewable energy, and are a highly efficient carbon sink. And the interconnected forests could prove an important north-south corridor for wildlife adapting their ranges to a changing climate.

This predominantly rural area is a last frontier in the suburbanization of central New England, with the Quabbin to Cardigan’s private forests undergoing widespread subdivision. The partners working to protect this vast region share a vision of consolidating the permanent protection of the most ecologically significant forest blocks, and key connections between them for wildlife passage and human recreation.

To learn more, visit q2cpartnership.org.

Reprinted from Land Trust Alliance's Saving Land magazine (Winter 2009).

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