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Eric Aldrich
603-224-5853, ext. 26
E-mail: ealdrich@tnc.org

Nature Conservancy Recognizes Harold Janeway and N.H. Fish & Game for Conservation in New Hampshire

CONCORD, N.H. — Sept. 18, 2007 — To recognize significant contributions in conserving New Hampshire’s remarkable ecosystems, The Nature Conservancy recently honored Sen. Harold Janeway and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department with awards.

At its recent annual meeting at the Tin Mountain Conservation Center in Albany, the Conservancy also recognized two volunteers for their commitment to the Conservancy’s work in New Hampshire and beyond. This is the New Hampshire chapter’s inaugural year for its Conservation Leadership and Conservation Partner awards.

 

Harold Janeway receives award at N.H. Chapter annual meeting

Outgoing trustee Harold Janeway, center, receives NH chapter's Conservation Leadership Award.
Eric Aldrich Photo

The Conservancy honored Senator Harold Janeway of Webster with the chapter’s Conservation Leadership Award. The award is given annually to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in helping to advance the Conservancy’s mission in New Hampshire and beyond.

Janeway has been a trustee for the New Hampshire chapter but is now leaving the board after reaching his 10-year term limit. He won a successful bid for a state senate seat last year, in part to help shore up state funding for the N.H. Land and Community Heritage Investment Program.

“Harold has been at the center of every significant step this chapter has taken under his tenure,” Burtnett said. “From the 200,000 acres of conservation success in our North Country between the Vickie Bunnell and Connecticut Lakes Headwaters projects, to the tremendous successes protecting habitat at Great Bay, to the formulation and execution of our carefully crafted strategic plan.”

 

New Hampshire Fish and Game Department Accepts Award from New Hampshire Chapter

L-R: Daryl Burtnett (NH State Director), Steve Weber and Charles Bridges (NH Fish & Game Department), Richard Mallion (chair, NH chapter board of trustees). NH Fish and Game received the chapter's Conservation Partner Award.                     Eric Aldrich Photo

The Conservancy gave its Conservation Partner Award to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department for helping to conserve high-priority ecosystems, including Great Bay, the Connecticut Lakes, Bunnell Mountain, Wilkinson Brook in Effingham, the Powwow River in Kingston and many other places. With the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Fish and Game has been a key player in the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership, helping to protect nearly 5,000 acres of ecologically significant lands around the estuary. And Fish and Game showed outstanding leadership in the development of the state’s Wildlife Action Plan, recognized as one of the best in the nation.

"The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is an important public advocate for, and a defender of, biodiversity,” said Daryl Burtnett, state director of The Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire. “In many arenas, Fish and Game has demonstrated a willingness to stick its neck out on behalf of the state’s wildlife and habitat resources.”

Finally, the Conservancy recognized the work of two dedicated volunteers: Bruce Goodwin of Kingston and Hillary Waite, formerly of Nashua. Goodwin has been instrumental in helping the Conservancy survey breeding birds in the grasslands in and around its Lubberland Creek Preserve in Newmarket. Waite was instrumental in assessing the chapter’s “carbon footprint” and advising on options to become carbon-neutral in its operations. The chapter has adopted many of Waite’s recommendations.

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The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.  To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 14 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 83 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Since 1961 The Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire has helped protect more than 265,000 acres of ecologically significant land and currently owns and manages 28 preserves across the state. For more information, visit www.nature.org/newhampshire.