There’s still time to make your tax-deductible 2011 contribution to ACT. Solstice and Solitude We conserve land for many reasons. This fall we completed three projects of particular importance to bats. Bats are an essential part of the natural system that supports human endeavors like farming. And two of our projects this fall are former [...]
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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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Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, farmland, Keep Growing, Littleton, Littleton Food Coop, Meadowstone Farm, New Hampshire, North Country, Northern Pass, Rebecca Brown, Sugar Hill
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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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| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, Bethlehem, New Hampshire, Rebecca Brown, warblers, Wedick, Wing Road
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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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| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, Hydro Quebec, New Hampshire, North Country, Northern Pass, PSNH, Vermont Yankee
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By Tim Williams We observe ACT’s Herbert G. Whipple Farm Conservation property over our back stone wall, and I thought it might be useful for ACT to get a report of what we see, a sort of ” State of the Farm” report. Most days there is evidence of one or more people walking in [...]
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Some people say that up here in the North Country we don’t have enough to do . . . or maybe the long winter makes us a bit addled. From some perspectives, both may be true. All I can say is that when the first warm, rainy nights of spring get here, there are some [...]
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For many years I have been actively working with the Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust to select and preserve significant properties with conservation easements. There are many challenges to good conservation work, not the lest of which is finding the resources to fund the transaction cost to protect the land. Last evening I attended a session sponsored [...]
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| Tags: Connecticut River Joint Commission, conservation, Fluvial Geomorphology
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