Read the 2025 Understory Magazine
Click here to read the 2025 edition of The Understory, the annual magazine of SELT. Click here to view or download the PDF.
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VIDEO: The Birth of the Birch Ridge All Persons Trail
SELT is working with Snowhawk LLC at Birch Ridge Community Forest in New Durham, to install the brand new all-persons trail that will start at the Birch Hill entrance and run to the cabin. Yohann Hanley, SELT’s Trails and Community Engagement Manager, gives you the lowdown on how this awesome new trail is coming together.
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SELT Partners with Gray Family, City of Rochester to Conserve 55 Acres of Drinking Water Protection Lands in Barrington
SELT recently completed the conservation of two critical drinking water protection projects in Barrington. The Gray Conservation Easement and Rochester #5 Conservation Easement combine for 55 acres of high priority drinking water supply lands that contribute to the water quality of the Rochester Reservoir, which supplies drinking water to over 25,000 residents in the City
Birch Hill Road Parking Lot, Cabin Trail, and Birch Ridge Cabin CLOSED Temporarily for Trail Construction
Starting on September 2, at Birch Ridge Community Forest in New Durham, the parking lot at Birch Hill Road, the Cabin Trail that leads from the lot, and the Birch Ridge cabin are all temporarily closed. For the next four to six weeks, SELT and Snowhawk LLC will be installing an all-persons trail that will
Thoughtful Stewardship at the Piscassic GreenwayComes to Fruition
The Piscassic Greenway, Newfields. May 2025 A brief walk from the Bald Hill Road parking area leads to part of the forest that, truthfully, if you didn’t know specifically what you were looking for you would likely keep walking by. For the majority of outdoor adventurers this section of the woods just rolls into the
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$150,000 Remains to Be Raised to Protect the 100-Acre Woods in Portsmouth
All Donations Will be Matched to Permanently Conserve the Largest Privately-Owned Undeveloped Parcel in the City SELT is reaching out to the community to bring a once-in-a-lifetime conservation project across the finish line. In 2024, SELT signed an agreement to acquire a conservation easement on just under 100 acres of land owned by Joe Cavaretta
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VIDEO: Invasive Maneuvers at Burley Farms
Repelling invasives is a never-ending campaign. Thankfully, our crew of committed volunteers are up to the task. Earlier this week, led by Ellie Karatzas, SELT’s Seasonal Land Steward, they cleared out an invasive incursion at Burley Farms.
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“Wort” Case Scenario – Dealing with the Swallowwort Invasive
From the SELT Land Management Notebook As an invasive plant, swallowwort, a climbing perennial brought over from Europe as a decorative exotic in the 19th century, brings deeply disruptive and destructive consequences to the environment. They grow easily in the sun or shade and force out native plants in the understory; in fact, their roots
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Read the 2025 SELT Summer Views Newsletter
Just dropped – the latest edition of the SELT newsletter. View or download the PDF below. Click here to read
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