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Bird Walk and Hike Sunday May 26

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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Snowshow Hike and Animal Tracking this Sunday

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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Thanks for a Great Annual Celebration!

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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Annual Dinner Oct. 27 – SOLD OUT but . . .

You are welcome to join us for the social hour and h’ors d’oeuvres and presentation of highlights of our major initiatives. THANK YOU to all who inquired and we are sorry we cannot accommodate you!  Saturday Oct. 27, 6 pm. Horse & Hound Inn in Franconia.

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Birds Birds & Bird Walks

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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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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Wedick Bird Walk

By Courtney Bowler, ACT 2011 Summer Intern Early Saturday morning May 21 some local folks headed over to the Wedick Nature Reserve in Bethlehem, N.H., to enjoy a morning walk birding and enjoying the remains of a glacial lake. The drizzle didn’t keep the strong hearted away from this wonderful opportunity. We started off near [...]

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