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 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 [...]
Categories: ACT News, Press Releases
| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, bats, conservation, Daphne Godfrey, Gardner Mountain, Lyman, New Hampshire, North Country
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on April 23, 2012
By Rebecca Brown The first Earth Day 42 years ago was planned for the high spring season, when the land – at least in the mid-Atlantic states – is in the burst of renewal and vibrant color. Sunday, Earth Day, brought much needed rain to the Northeast. Streams and rivers that on Friday were flowing [...]
Categories: ACT News, Press Releases, Travel & Musings
| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, conservation, conservation buying, Earth Day, farmland, Keep Growing, North Country, Rebecca Brown
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on August 1, 2011
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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| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, Beyond the Notches, Confluence, conservation, Lisbon, Nat Tripp, New Hampshire, North Country, Rebecca Brown, Weeks Centennial, White Mountain National Forest
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on March 29, 2011
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 [...]
Categories: ACT News, Northern Pass
| Tags: ACT, Chris Thayer, conservation, Margo Connors, New Hampshire, Northern Pass, Rebecca Brown, Sugar Hill
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on January 6, 2011
Tony Ilacqua of Littleton has joined the board of directors of the Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust (ACT). Tony and his wife Carol conserved their 100-acre property with ACT in 2009. ACT also named its officers for the year. “I joined the board for the same reason we conserved our land,” Tony says. “I want to continue [...]
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| Tags: ACT, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, Bethlehem, conservation, Evelyn, Ilacqua, Latulip, Page, Perkins, Phillips, Seidel, Sugar Hill
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Posted by Rebecca Brown on February 4, 2010
UPDATE: The bond lost at town meeting (see below for project story). A record number of people came out to vote. We knew it would be a difficult hurdle to win the 2/3 majority necessary to pass the bond, which would have put the final large piece of funding in place to purchase the property [...]
Categories: Gardner Mountain
| Tags: ACT, conservation, conservation buying, Gardner Mountain, Lyman, town forest
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Posted by Chris Latulip on November 12, 2009
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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