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As the New Hampshire Legislature debates the state's proposed budget, efforts to restore funding to the state's Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) have reached a crucial stage. This is a time when you can make a difference. As you know, LCHIP, New Hampshire's only state land conservation funding program, was slashed by nearly 90 percent to $ 1.5 million for the 2-year period ending this June 30. The N.H. legislature is now preparing the new state budget. After Governor Lynch submitted a budget that would bring LCHIP to $10 million, the House Finance Committee cut this proposal to $5 million. This $5 million proposal will go to the full House for a vote on Wednesday April 20. However, an amendment to the House budget proposal includes increasing LCHIP funding to $10 million. The full House vote on Wednesday is our final chance to secure adequate LCHIP funding in the House budget. Here's what you can do: Contact your state representative before Wednesday and urge him or her to support $10 million in the budget for this critical program. To find your legislator, visit http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/ie/whosmyleg/. A phone call is the best way to contact your representatives, but if you prefer writing a quick note, please just make sure it gets into the mail this weekend. Please remember to be concise and respectful in your communications. The Legislature has a challenging task in completing the budget, and broadly supports the LCHIP program. Reasons why LCHIP needs $10 million in the next budget:
For more information, visit www.lchip.org.
Nature Conservancy Begins First Phase of Restoring Ossipee Pine Barrens Project addresses dual role The Nature Conservancy has begun the first phase of ecological restoration in the Ossipee Pine Barrens, one of New Hampshire’s last intact examples of a pitch pine/scrub oak woodland. Contractors for The Nature Conservancy began mechanical treatments this week on the Conservancy’s land in Tamworth, N.H., and next week will move operations to part of the Ossipee Pine Barrens Preserve in Madison. The Conservancy has hired Forest Land Improvement Inc., of Chocurua to manage the work being done this spring. “This is the first phase of using mechanical treatments, at this stage primarily timber harvests, to reduce fuel loads and begin habitat restoration,” said Jeff Lougee, stewardship ecologist for The Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire. “The two really go hand and hand. As we reduce the potential for crown fires by removing some of the timber, the added sunlight to the forest understory will enhance the productivity of scrub oak and other shrubs that provide critical habitat for the rare wildlife species we are trying to protect at the site. These treatments are also enabling us to remove decades of encroachment from fire intolerant species, like white pine and some hardwoods.” The Ossipee Pine Barrens is a globally rare forest type found only in the northeastern United States. It harbors a diversity of uncommon wildlife, including nearly two dozen threatened and endangered moths and butterflies and several declining songbirds, such as whip-poor-will and brown thrasher. New Book by New Hampshire Author:
Nature's Keepers By Bill Birchard Incorporated in 1951 by a small circle of concerned ecologists, the Nature Conservancy has grown financially into the world's largest environmental organization. With Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World, Bill Birchard goes inside the workings of the Nature Conservancy to reveal the leadership that has allowed the organization to weather obstacles and confront crises to become what it is today — with more than $3.7 billion in assets and annual revenue of $800 million and one million members — up from 500,000 in 1990. The Nature Conservancy's success is hard-won, and the result of courageous and innovative leadership. Highlighting the efforts of nine extraordinary leaders, Nature's Keepers examines the organization's culture and management, strategy and decisions, and ingenious individuals who have dedicated their lives to excellence. Birchard captures the behind-the-scenes story of people taking bold steps to transform and improve the way they work - and continue to log achievements that count. Nature’s Keepers is Birchard’s first foray into writing about the nonprofit sector. “As in so many stories of leadership,” he says, “the survival and success of the Conservancy has always depended on acts of leadership that at the time caused people plenty of grief. Grief seems to be the toll leaders pay for getting their visions into the fast lane.” Bill Birchard is a freelance journalist from Amherst, N.H., who has been writing about management and the environment for more than 25 years. His work has appeared in Chief Executive, CFO, Fast Company, Strategy + Business, and Tommorrow magazines. He has also written for the Appalachian Trail Conference, the Montana Department of State Lands and the U.S. Forest Service. He is the coauthor of two previous books, Counting What Counts and The One-Minute Meditator. On the web, see natureskeepers.net. Great Bay Partnership Protects
Critical waterfowl habitat along the Piscassic River in Exeter, Epping and Newfields is now permanently protected in a transaction recently completed by the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership. The 359 acres was purchased this month on behalf of the Great Bay partnership by The Nature Conservancy. Ultimately, the parcel will be transferred to the N.H. Fish and Game Department. The parcel had been owned for several generations by the Dow family, which at one time had been in the forestry business. Heirs to the land, living in Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina, had long appreciated the land’s value for its forest and as waterfowl habitat. “The Dow tract is one that we've had identified for years as a high priority for waterfowl habitat conservation,” said Edward Robinson, a waterfowl biologist for the N.H. Fish and Game Department. “The habitat contains a significant amount of high quality freshwater wetlands that include beaver impoundments, forested, shrub scrub, and emergent wetlands with forested upland buffer. The Dow tract will provide high quality nesting and feeding areas for local wood ducks, mallards, and black ducks.” The tract includes about 8,300 feet of frontage along the Piscassic River and has extensive wetlands associated with the Piscassic and Fresh rivers. Pizza and Conservation? Yes!
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