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ACT is Applying for National Accreditation and Invites Your Comments!

ACT has applied for accreditation with the Land Trust Alliance (LTA), the national organization that oversees the operations of land conservation organizations. As part of this process, ACT invites comments on its operations to be sent to the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, and independent program of LTA that conducts an extensive review of ACT’s policies [...]

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Gardner Mountain Conserved for People, Wildlife, Timber

1,100 acres protect key habitat, working forest, recreation  A significant portion of Gardner Ridge in the Connecticut River valley, the scenic backdrop for Lyman and critically important wildlife habitat, has been conserved. Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust and The Trust for Public Land announced that the conservation easement on the 1,081 acres encourages timber management, protects important [...]

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Celebrate Wildlife Conservation at Fall Supper

Everyone is invited to ACT’s Fall Celebration at the Horse & Hound Inn in Franconia Saturday Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. We will celebrating some significant land conservation projects – one we can tell you about now, and one we’ll let you know about as soon as the ink is dry  - hopefully in on [...]

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ACT ‘Salon’ Celebrates Weeks Centennial

Join the Discussion – Bold Ideas for the Next Century One hundred years ago the North Country faced a pivotal moment. Our forebears united across boundaries of geography, politics, and financial interests to win passage of the Weeks Act, which led to the creation of the White Mountain National Forest. Their actions guaranteed that the [...]

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Public Event: Keep Growing! – August 7, 2011

Keep Growing is a new initiative aimed at building a local food system and revitalizing the agricultural economy in northern New Hampshire and Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. On Sunday August 7 join ACT and our partners in kicking off the movement. Keep Growing: Sowing the Seeds of Our Local Food Movement is a free public event [...]

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Landowner Workshop – July 22, 2011

Landowner Workshop on Managing Fields and Forest Land – for wildlife and income. Friday, July 22 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Post Road, Sugar Hill This free workshop for landowners focuses on managing the kinds of habitats that many people have here in the North Country: fields, wooded wetlands, and forest at various stages of [...]

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Bird and Wildlife Walk at Wedick Reserve

The public is invited to a bird walk at the John L. and Jean P. Wedick Nature Reserve on Wing Road in Bethlehem on Saturday May 21 at 7:30 a.m. The Wedicks created the reserve in 2009. They permanently conserved over 120 acres, including a mile along the Ammonoosuc River. The mix of wetlands, pond, [...]

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Northern Pass Scoping Hearing: Sugar Hill speaks!

Scoping hearings on the Northern Pass transmission line were held in the region by the federal Dept. of Energy. At the Whitefield hearing nearly 400 people turned out, including a number of Sugar Hill residents and ACT members. Following are statements by Margo Connors, Chris Thayer, and Rebecca Brown. Margo Connors, representing Sugar Hill Select [...]

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Northern Pass: Wrong for the North Country, Wrong for New Hampshire

Versions of this essay have appeared in The Littleton Courier, Coös County Democrat, and Concord Monitor By Rebecca Brown Like many people, when I first heard about the Northern Pass transmission line proposal I performed a quick mental calculation of pros and cons. Pro: renewable energy. Con: huge towers going through my front yard. My [...]

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Why ACT Opposes the Northern Pass

Hearing Set for Public Comment Federal “scoping hearings” are coming up. Click above to expand this page and get a live link to the dates, times, and places and other information about making comments – in person or by letter.  Click here for PDF download. The Northern Pass issue is one of the most important [...]

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