Clean Water

Forests are nature's water filter. The Forest Society's mission includes conserving land that keeps our waters clean and cool for human and wildlife consumption. Visit this page to explore stories, projects and stewardship related to sustaining our supply of clean water in New Hampshire.

So the thing about “nature shows” - even this one - is that we tend to talk about plant and animal species in pretty independent terms.

Summer Drought Effects Include Winners and Losers

Now that autumn has officially arrived, I checked with water and wildlife experts to identify winners and losers during the prolonged drought.

To everything there is a season and this is the season when we go swimming and we spend a lot of time talking about Cyanobacteria. So what is it, exactly?

 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded part of a $10 million grant through the Farm Bill’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program to the Connecticut River Watershed Council and its partners to improve the health of the watershed. The grant will be matched dollar-for-dollar by other state, local, and private funding sources for numerous conservation projects throughout New Hampshire and New England.

DURHAM – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service on Thursday announced that New Hampshire will receive $800,000 for two major conservation partnerships as part of the new Regional Conservation Partnership Program.

Perhaps a landscape sufficiently large and wild enough to fire a child’s imagination might also fire dragon’s breath?

In August, NH towns celebrate "Old Home Days." Forest Society founders, Frank Rollins and Nahum Batchelder conceived "Old Home Week” in 1899. It was designed to lure wealth back to NH to revitalize depressed rural economies and bring abandoned farms back onto tax rolls.

How Trees Move Water... When the late spring rains arrive