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News

  • New Faces at the Forest Society

    Anna Berry
    January 17, 2023

    We've welcomed a few new faces to the Forest Society over the past few months and we're excited to introduce them to you.

  • What We Accomplished Together in 2022

    Jack Savage
    December 27, 2022

    Over the past year, we completed 12 land protection projects, encompassing nearly 2,200 acres.

  • Press Release: LCHIP Awards 3 Grants to Forest Society

    December 14, 2022

    The Forest Society has received three grant awards totaling $307,500 to support land conservation projects in Canterbury, Concord, and Middleton.

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Regional Initiatives

Regional Study Areas
Under the umbrella of New Hampshire Everlasting (NHE), which outlines the Forest Society’s vision for the state and guides our work, we have undertaken regional initiatives around the state. The conservation goals set forth in NHE fall into five categories:

  • Community 
  • Forestland 
  • Wildlife Habitat 
  • Water 
  • Agricultural Soils

The Forest Society has set about to implement these goals through Land Protection, Stewardship, Research, Policy, Fundraising/Organizational Support, and Communication/Outreach. We accomplish this through the Regional Initiatives we have developed, working with like-minded partners around New Hampshire and in Massachusetts.

Why are regional plans important? First, they create collaborative opportunities. Second, they create a tool for participating organizations to prioritize their land protection efforts in their day-to-day work and third, they create a larger pool of resources and potential funders who are interested in multiple partnership collaborations.

The Forest Society is working side-by-side with a number of partners to shape a vision for land conservation in New Hampshire and parts of Massachusetts. Each regional plan varies somewhat in its visions, approach and end result, but each plan is also unified with the others in terms of the evolution of the planning process used in all its planning efforts.

Below is a brief synopsis of the four regional plans with links to the accompanying data and maps:

Quabbin to Cardigan

The Quabbin to Cardigan (Q2C) plan involves the largest region – about 3,000 square miles – and is unique in that it is an interstate plan with stakeholder input from Massachusetts.  It was the first landscape scale planning effort in the state to develop a shared vision of land conservation goals and strategies.

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Coastal Watershed Plan

The Coastal Watershed Plan was a partnered effort of the NH Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and the Forest Society, and was the first plan to introduce the concept of core conservation focus areas into regional plans in the state.  This approach has been incorporated into the Q2C plan, and most recently, in the Lakes Region plan.

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Merrimack River Watershed

The Merrimack Valley Plan is centered on the Merrimack River Valley Watershed, and is intended to serve as a bridge between the two plans above.  Forest Society staff have generated a mission-driven plan for this region to assist in its land protection decision-making in this region, with the intention to develop a collaborative interstate plan similar to the Q2C in the near future. 

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Lakes Region Plan

The Lakes Region Plan is significant in the statewide scheme of conservation planning because it addresses the last region south of the White Mountains to experience a concerted, collaborative effort to shape a vision for land conservation in New Hampshire.

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