LAMPREY RIVER HEADLANDS PROJECT PROPERTY TOUR
Date & Time: Saturday October 14, 10:00 am – Noon
Meeting Location: Mount Delight Road, Deerfield, NH
Leader: Phil Auger, Bear-Paw Regional Greenways and UNH Cooperative Extension
Trip Description: Bear-Paw is pleased to lead a tour of this 175-acre property that is at the heart of a current effort to protect the western-most reaches of the Lamprey River watershed in Deerfield. It contains a rich mix of woodlands and wetlands and includes over 1 mile of frontage on Hartford Brook.
Level of Difficulty: Moderate
For more information, and to register, contact: Please register at info@bear-paw.org or 603-463-9400. Please include name, number of people in your party and contact information.

HAMPTON SALT MARSH TOUR
Date & Time: Saturday, October 14, 10 am - Noon
Leaders: Dan Sundquist, Society for the Protection of NH Forests; Ted Diers, NH Coastal Program; Peter McKinley, NH Audubon
Meeting location: Meet at the Seabrook Beach Parking lot, near the Fisherman’s Coop.
Trip Description: Comprising only 6,100 acres in total, the tidal saltmarsh estuarine natural community represents only about 2% of all wetlands in New Hampshire; only one-fifth of these marshes are permanently protected. Ecologically unique and profoundly productive, the saltmarshes are challenged by land development and degraded water quality in this most rapidly growing region of the state. This tour will address the history and cultural value of the saltmarsh, the ecological services rendered, its threats and its restoration potential.
Level of Difficulty: Easy. Car pooling to visit three viewing sites.
For more information, and to register, contact: Trish Churchill at 224-9945 extension 311 or tchurchill@forestsociety.org or visit our website www.forestsociety.org and select the signup@forestsociety.org option.

PISCASSIC GREENWAY, NEWFIELDS & NEWMARKET
Date & Time: Saturday, October 14, 2 to 4:30 p.m.
Leaders: Forester Phil Auger and wildlife biologist Ellen Snyder
Meeting Place:
Trip Description: Sponsored by the Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire (formed by the merger of the Rockingham Land Trust and Seacoast Land Trust). Phil and Ellen will lead an easy to moderate hike, including limited bushwacking, on the 327-acre Piscassic Greenway. Conserved this past April through the partnership of the Rockingham Land Trust, Trust for Public Land, and Town of Newfields, the Piscassic Greenway includes a variety of important wildlife habitat, including shoreline on the Piscassic River, vernal pools, and 106-acres of wetlands.  Its extensive network of trails offers the public opportunities for hiking, snowmobiling, and hunting.  Further, the Piscassic Greenway was a keystone parcel in connecting more than 2,500 acres of conservation land spanning four towns. Level of Difficulty: Easy to moderate.
For more information, or to sign up, please email krubin@rockinghamlandtrust.org.  Registrants will be sent a confirmation and directions.

Sunday, Oct. 15

LUBBERLAND CREEK PRESERVE ON GREAT BAY
Date & Time: Sunday, October 15, 1 – 3 pm
Meeting Location: TNC's Great Bay office, Bay Rd, Newmarket
Leader: Mark Zankel, The Nature Conservancy
Trip Description: Take a walking tour of The Nature Conservancy’s diverse 250-acre Lubberland Creek Preserve, visiting open fields, oak-hickory forests, beaver ponds, tidal saltmarsh, and our new coastal office. Lubberland Creek is a remarkable, high quality tributary of the Great Bay estuary. It has been identified as a conservation priority in the just-released Land Conservation Plan for New Hampshire’s Coastal Watersheds, and is a long-term focus area for the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership.
Level of Difficulty: Easy to Moderate hike
For more information, and to register, contact: Corinne Fenton at 224-5853, or cfenton@tnc.org. Please include name, number of people in your party and contact information.

TENERIFFE MOUNTAIN TOUR
Date & Time: Sunday, October 15, 2006, 1-3 PM
Leader: Steve Panish, landowner (MMRG)
Meeting Location: TNC Teneriffe Mtn Trailhead on Teneriffe Rd., Milton.  Additional parking is possible further up the hill from the trailhead.
Trip Description: Enjoy approximately 2.5 miles of trails that provide 360 degree views from the top of Teneriffe Mountain. Long views vary with atmospheric conditions however, views from the top are excellent in all directions. To the east lies Milton 3 ponds, Acton Ridge, and Mt Agamenticus.  To the south see forests, wetlands, and Portsmouth, to the west, the Moose Mtns in Farmington, New Durham and Brookfield and to the north there is a view up the Mt. Washington valley to Mt. Washington, as well as the Ossipees. As you hike both public and private trails on Teneriffe Mtn. you will enjoy a variety of wooded and open habitats. Working with The Strafford RIvers Conservancy, landowner Steve Panish is striving to raise enought funds to preserve his property in its entirely, including 10 acres of low-bush blueberry fields as well as the forested land that abuts The Nature Conservancy conservation land.
Level of Difficulty:  Moderate
For more information, and to register, contact: Anna Boudreau, The Strafford Rivers Conservancy, phone: (603) 557-7561, e-mail address: annaboudreau@comcast.net