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Posted by Rebecca Brown on May 19, 2013
Everyone is invited to come explore the proposed Cooley – Jericho Community Forest on Sunday, May 26. This will be a great time to see this magnificent land and see some of the birds breeding there. The hike will start at 9 a.m. the end of Dyke Road (heading west, up hill) in Sugar Hill. [...]
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on May 16, 2013
We announced a few months ago that we are now a nationally accredited land trust. One of the benefits of this for ACT is that we automatically qualify for a new, national insurance program to help protect land forever. The program is through a first-of-its-kind liability insurance company, called Terrafirma, which was created to [...]
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on January 29, 2013
Everyone is invited to join a snowshoe hike on the proposed Cooley-Jericho Community Forest this Sunday afternoon, Feb. 3 at 1:30 p.m. The hike will start from the parking area at the end of Trumpet Round Road in Sugar Hill. Trumpet Round is off of Jericho Road, which is a left turn as you head [...]
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on January 23, 2013
We are very proud to announce that we have been awarded certification by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, the national organization dedicated to establishing and guiding the best practices for land conservation organizations. This is actually an enormous achievement for ACT. We are only the fifth land trust in New Hampshire – and by far [...]
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| Tags: accreditation, ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, Land Trust Accreditation Commission, Land Trust Alliance, LTA, standards and practices
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on October 29, 2012
Thanks to all who made ACT’s annual celebration at the Horse & Hound such as success. Special thanks to Franconia artist and ACT member Lynn Bart. Her original painting of the view of Pearl Lake from the top of the proposed Cooley – Jericho Forest sold at our live auction – Chuck Phillips, auctioneer! – [...]
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on October 3, 2012
We are tremendously pleased to present Pettyboro Farm, 160-plus acres in Lyman conserved through the generosity of Bill and Lorraine Hanaway. This project, along with the Godfrey Memorial Conservation Area and Gardner Mountain, conserves 1,500 acres of crucial bat habitat in Lyman – in addition to providing splendid views, habitat for other wildlife, and in [...]
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| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, Brendan Whittaker, Gardner Mountain, Lyman, NH Wildlife Action Plan, Pettyboro Farm, Rebecca Brown
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on September 30, 2012
We remain steadfast in our opposition to the Northern Pass. It’s wrong for the North Country and wrong for New Hampshire. Let us count the ways…it’s corporate welfare for PSNH…a private project, no public policy policy required…it’s old-fashioned dependence on a foreign power…it’s old-fashioned transmission lines…it bestows no benefits at all on the North Country…it [...]
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on June 6, 2012
Release: June 6, 2012 SUGAR HILL – The extremely loud growling, grinding sound of a Brontosaurus is music to the ears of woodcock, the odd little birds that put on such an amazing mating display in the early spring – and is still going on in old fields and meadows around the North Country. The [...]
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| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, brontosaurus, conservation, New Hampshire, NH Fish and Game, Rebecca Brown, Sugar Hill, Will Staats, woodcock
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on May 31, 2012
We’re in a very springlike couple of days between hot, humid, and very dramatic storms and what is predicted as a rainy weekend. Lots of birds are already here and on their nests, and some even have their first brood. On a long early morning run earlier this week through and near ACT conserved land, [...]
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| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, birds, community forest, Easton, Rebecca Brown, Sugar Hill, town forest, townforest.org
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on May 2, 2012
We’ve had the singular pleasure of getting to know Daphne Godfrey over the last several years as we’ve worked with her to conserve her land in Lyman. We were fortunate enough to be introduced to Daphne through the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, who referred her to us. Her neighbor up the [...]
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| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, bats, conservation, Daphne Godfrey, Gardner Mountain, Lyman, New Hampshire, North Country
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