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Sept. 8, Albany, N.H.:
Join Us in Celebrating a Year of Success at the New Hampshire Chapter's Annual Meeting

Green Hills Preserve
TNC's Green Hills Preserve is one of the optional field trips offered as part of this year's annual meeting. Others include the Ossipee Pine Barrens, canoeing or kayaking the Saco River, TNC's Frank Bolles Preserve, and a guided nature walk at Tin Mountain Conservation Center.
Photo © Eric Aldrich/TNC

From Great Bay to the Connecticut River and the Ossipee Pine Barrens, The Nature Conservancy has a lot of success to celebrate this year. Please join us Sept. 8 as we look back and look ahead to remarkable conservation in the Granite State.

The New Hampshire chapter's 16th annual meeting will be held near the beautiful backdrop of the Green Hills at the Tin Mountain Conservation Center near Conway.

Agenda:
9:30 a.m. - Registration / refreshments
10 - Trustees report, awards, director's report
11:15 - Keynote presentation by Janisse Ray
Noon - Delicious lunch!
1:30 p.m. - Field trips begin

Join us for a fun array of field trips to places that, with your help, we've conserved. Some of these trips offer a rare opportunity to hear first-hand how the Conservancy and supporters have conserved and restored the nature of New Hampshire.

  • Kayak / Canoe the Saco River with Stefan Jackson, director of TNC's Saco River Project. We'll ride about 3 miles downstream along the "Sandy Saco," catching a ride back with a local outfitter. Sign up early to reserve a canoe or bring your own.

  • Protecting the Ossipee Pine Barrens. Learn how TNC, the state of New Hampshire, the Forest Legacy Program, and many local supporters are working to protect this remarkable habitat and natural filter for underground water.

  • Restoring the Ossipee Pine Barrens. This endangered ecosystem needs fire to survive and thrive. See how we're using TNC's best science and stewardship to restore this fire-dependent habitat and protect homes and businesses.

  • Hike TNC's Green Hills Preserve. This will be a fun, invigorating hike on the gorgeous, granite-topped hills overlooking North Conway.

  • Tin Mountain Nature Walk. Explore the cool grounds at Tin Mountain's new quarters in Albany.

  • Explore TNC's Frank Bolles Preserve with former TNC staffer Peter Benson on a natural and literary tribute to the late naturalist, Frank Bolles.

Janisse Ray      
Janisse Ray is author of "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" and "Wildcard Quilt." Her latest book, "Pinhook," is about Georgia’s Pinhook Swamp and of efforts to conserve the whole of this wild place.

Keynote Speaker:
Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1. She is the author of Wild Card Quilt and Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, which won the American Book Award, as well as the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, Southeastern Booksellers Association Award for Nonfiction, and the Southern Environmental Law Center Award.

A naturalist, environmental activist, and winner of the 1996 Merriam Frontier Award, she has also published her work in Wild Earth, Orion, Florida Naturalist, and Georgia Wildlife and has been a nature commentator for Georgia Public Radio. She lives in Vermont, but still spends much of her time in Georgia.

For more information about the annual meeting, and a registration form, click here

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Bucking Nature Deficit Disorder:
In New Hampshire, City Kids Encounter Hard Work, Bugs, and Hands-on Conservation

NYC kids help collect data at Great Bay
LEARNING THE ROPES -- Student interns from the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan help study fish populations in New Hampshire's Great Bay Estuary. The work exposes the high school graduates to conservation field work ... and helps gather data for The Nature Conservancy and the N.H. Department of Environmental Services. 
 Photo © Eric Aldrich/TNC

It's warm and sunny on Great Bay's salt marsh in Greenland. The tide is going out and it's time to throw some nets and catch fish.

This is how a small group of New York City youths spent a recent day helping scientists from The Nature Conservancy and the N.H. Department of Environmental Services gather data on salt marsh restoration.

The three students and their mentor are from the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan. For a few weeks this summer, they're traveling with a mentor in New Hampshire and Maine to help The Nature Conservancy with an array of hands-on conservation projects. Aside from the fish sampling at Great Bay, the youths have also been clearing lands of invasive plants, improving trails, and doing other science and stewardship projects. During their time in New Hampshire and Maine, they'll also have a chance to check out some colleges.

Find out what these kids learned
about New Hampshire ... and themselves

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Getting Out & About:
10 Places to Explore the
Nature of New Hampshire

Exploring the Ossipee Pine Barrens
The Ossipee Pine Barrens is one of many places where you can explore the nature of New Hampshire ... on your own or with friends or family. © Daryl Burtnett / TNC

In the 46 years that The Nature Conservancy has been
protecting places for people and nature in New Hampshire, we’ve had astonishing success. Thanks to you, we’ve helped protect more than 265,000 acres of ecologically significant land and we currently own and manage 28 preserves across the state representing some of New Hampshire’s most extraordinary natural areas.

As summer pushes into the prime hiking climate of fall, here are ten great places you might explore. They include:

Ossipee Pine Barrens
Manchester Cedar Swamp
Fourth Connecticut Lake, Pittsburg
Warwick Preserve, Westmoreland
Sheldrick Forest Preserve, Wilton
Lubberland Creek Preserve, Newmarket
Loverens Mill Preserve, Antrim
Green Hills Preserve, Conway
Green Hills Preserve, Conway
Otter Brook Preserve, Sullivan

Also, the N.H. Natural Heritage Bureau has produced 12 brochures in its Visiting New Hampshire's Biodiversity series. Produced with help from New Hampshire's Moose Plate, these handy brochures cover:

Bellamy River Wildlife Sanctuary Marshes, Dover
Fox State Forest Black Gum Swamp, Hillsborough
Franconia Ridge Alpine Zone, Franconia
Franconia Notch Old Forest, Franconia
Hurlbert Swamp, Stewartstown
Manchester Cedar Swamp Preserve
Merrimack River Conservation Area Floodplain Forest, Concord
Philbrick-Cricenti Bog, New London
Pondicherry Wildlife Refuge, Jefferson
Ponemah Bog, Amherst
Sandy Point Discovery Center Salt Marsh, Stratham
West Rattlesnake Mtn., Holderness

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Pitching In:
Thank You, Volunteers!

Volunteers birding
Volunteers birding at Great Bay. © Tiffany McKenna / TNC

A spectacular morning of birding at TNC’s Lubberland Creek Preserve wasn’t the only way we recently said “thank you” to our dedicated volunteers.

We also made them a hearty breakfast (three kinds of pancakes!) and offered a photography workshop by state director and former pro photographer Daryl Burtnett.

Since 1995, more than 500 volunteers have generously given nearly 9,000 hours to help the New Hampshire chapter’s conservation and stewardship work. They’ve built trails, bog bridges, kiosks, and signs; pulled invasive plants; mapped preserves; organized office documents; calculated our carbon footprint; gathered ecological data; monitored preserves and easements; and so much more.

Our volunteers have provided skill, energy, humor, friendship, and support for many projects. Thank you, volunteers!

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Careers in Conservation:

Restoration Ecologist
The New Hampshire chapter of The Nature Conservancy currently has an opening for the position of restoration ecologist. The restoration ecologist will lead, conduct, and support a range of ecological restoration initiatives in New Hampshire’s most biologically significant terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.  Restoration activities will be driven by a clearly demonstrated need to enhance and maintain the viability of degraded species, natural communities, and systems of conservation concern.
Learn more about this position

Administrative Assistant (part-time)
This position provides administrative support for the New Hampshire Chapter. These functions involve various office tasks including answering phones, sorting/distributing mail, maintaining equipment, ordering supplies, working with vendors, drafting correspondence, maintaining logs and costs, organizing and filing. Position may be responsible for maintaining chapter calendar and may also provide logistical support for program training events and/or meetings.
Learn more about this position

Learn more about careers with The Nature Conservancy

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With your support ...

Working together, we can ensure the diversity of life on Earth and enrich the quality of life in New Hampshire now and for future generations.

You can make a significant impact by helping us preserve and steward land now, which will improve the quality of life for you, your children, your grandchildren and for the future of life on Earth. Please consider:

  • A life-income gift (charitable gift annuity)
  • Including us in your will
  • A gift of stock or mutual funds
  • A gift of land
  • Becoming a volunteer
  • Introducing us to others
  • A gift of cash

For more information, contact Tiffany McKenna, director of philanthropy, at 603-224-5853, ext. 15.

Click here to find out how you can help The Nature Conservancy's conservation efforts in New Hampshire and beyond.

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About The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy's mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. The Conservancy has protected more than 98 million acres of valuable lands and waters worldwide. The organization accomplishes its mission through the efforts of state and country chapters, which are responsible for protecting and managing conservation land, and for raising operating and capital funds to support their programs.

Since establishing its first preserve here in 1961, The Nature Conservancy of New Hampshire has helped protect more than 265,000 acres of ecologically significant land and currently owns and manages 28 preserves across the state.

The Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire:

  • 22 Bridge St., Fourth Floor, Concord, N.H., 03301. 603-224-5853.
  • Great Bay Office: 112 Bay Road, Newmarket, N.H., 03857. 603-659-2678.
  • Northern New Hampshire Office: P.O. Box 310, 2760 White Mt. Hwy, North Conway, NH 03860. 603-356-8833

About this e-newsletter
Granite State Glances is the electronic newsletter of The Nature Conservancy's New Hampshire Chapter.

All subscribers (email addresses) on this list are kept confidential and are not shared by The Nature Conservancy.

For questions about this e-newsletter, contact Eric Aldrich, The Nature Conservancy, NH Chapter, 603-224-5853, ext. 26.

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