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 [...]
Categories: ACT News, Events, Press Releases, Uncategorized
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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 [...]
Categories: ACT News, Press Releases, The ACT Organization
| 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 [...]
Categories: Travel & Musings
| Tags: Connecticut River Joint Commission, conservation, Fluvial Geomorphology
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