Birdwatching

Madame Sherri Forest

The Madame Sherri Forest is named after a former owner, Madame Antoinette Sherri, a Paris-born theatrical costume designer who worked in New York City during the early 1900s.

McCabe Forest

Two miles of hiking trails wind through upland pine-oak-hemlock forests, fields, old orchards, and silver maple floodplain forest along the Contoocook River. The terrain is relatively flat. Because of the wide variety of habitats, wildlife observation opportunities are excellent at McCabe Forest.

What's Good For The Goose

Chris Martin
November 25, 2014

Something Wild: What's Good For The Goose

November's gray skies carry the last of the migrating Canada geese, graceful ribbons of true wild Canadians on a long-distance flight. These aren't the New England locals, flying low from golf course to cornfield.

Birdwatching
Wildlife
Natural Resources

The Sandhill Cranes Of New Hampshire

Chris Martin, Dave Anderson
November 25, 2014

You know how New Hampshire likes to be first in the nation when it comes to politics? Well, it turns out we’re stragglers in another category: sandhill cranes. They’ve been nesting in our neighboring states of Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, but they never went granite until this year.

Birdwatching
Wildlife
Natural Resources
Great North Woods

Lamprey River Forest

Hedgehog Mountain Forest

The Hedgehog Mountain Forest was protected in 8 separate acquisitions from 2007 to 2011. The property protects not only the steep spine of Hedgehog Ridge and a large area of unfragmented forest, but also several large wetlands in the southern and eastern portions of the property. 

George F. Smith Woodlot

Pickerel Cove

Tom Rush Forest