Wildlife

The Forest Society's mission includes conserving land that supports New Hampshire's native animals and plants, so that wildlife remains a part of our everyday world. Visit this page to explore stories, projects and stewardship related to wildlife and habitat.

Its All in the Breeding

Dave Anderson, Chris Martin, Andrew Parrella
September 3, 2019

A common theme on Something Wild is breeding. (Which is why we always sip our tea with our pinkies extended.) Seriously, though, we talk about the how, when and where because there are a lot of different reproductive strategies that have evolved in nature.

Wildlife
Milkweed

Managing for Monarchs on the Tom Rush Forest

Gabe Roxby
September 3, 2019

Most of the land that the Forest Society manages is forestland, but we also own over 450 acres of fields throughout the state. These areas provide valuable habitat and plant diversity on our landscape and are often havens for wildlife. We lease some of our fields to local farmers, who grow and cu

Wildlife
Stewardship

How Scatter Hoarders Prepare for Winter

Dave Anderson, Chris Martin, Andrew Parrella
August 22, 2019

You may be familiar with hoarders (not the TV show, but same idea).  In nature, a hoarder will hide food in one place.  Everything it gathers will be stored in a single tree or den.  But for some animals one food cache isn't enough.  We call them scatter hoarders.

Wildlife

Hornworm horrors; squeamish gardeners need not apply.

Dave Anderson
August 19, 2019

Leaving the mid-summer forest to the hungry biting deerflies, I spend more time mowing fields or watering and weeding the vegetable garden. Like the forest, the garden provides a miniature ecosystem to study, tend and from which to learn…

Wildlife
Invasives and Pests
Monarch at Tom Rush Forest

Monarchs, Milkweed and Mowing

Jack Savage
August 15, 2019

There’s an odd pleasure that comes from climbing on a tractor and mowing a field. You can measure your accomplishment of the task in the neat parallel tracks that the tractor lays out behind the bushhog.

Wildlife
Stewardship

Monarch Butterfly Walk (Deering, NH)

Sunday, September 8, 2019 - 1:00pm
Deering, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

The Forest Society and the Deering Conservation Commission are sponsoring this walk through the meadows of the Tom Rush Forest in Deering, NH.  This year there have been a large number of monarch butterflies in these meadows, and with the help of local naturalists, we hope to see several phases of this fascinating insect's life cycle in person!  You will learn about monarch biology and conservation, and about a local threat to NH's monarchs: invasive black swallow-wort vine.  Black swallow-wort has been identified on the Tom Rush Forest and you will get a chance to see this plant and learn

Orphan yearling bears find new homes on Forest Society properties

 

Art Exhibit: Fauna of the Galapagos by Jeff Sluder

Monday, July 1, 2019 (All day)
Galapagos Land Iguana by Jeff Sluder
Concord, NH

A collection of photographs, "Fauna of the Galapagos," by Godfrey (Jeff) Sluder are on display at the Forest Society's Conservation Center in Concord until the end of August 2019.

Godfrey (Jeff) Sluder has been a resident of Kingston for the last 15 years. He first became interested in using the camera when he was 19 and took a trip out West.  Since then, he has carried a camera with him wherever he goes.

A brook trout is pictured in the water.

New Hampshire Brook Trout

Dave Anderson, Chris Martin, Andrew Parrella
June 12, 2019

The foam formed eddies on the surface of the pool as Stevens Brook rushed down and through this particular crook in the waterway in the shadow of route-89 in East Sutton, New Hampshire.

Recreation
Wildlife
Clean Water