Stonehouse Forest Timber Harvest Scheduled for this Winter Begins January 6

In early 2022, SELT finalized a management plan for Stonehouse Forest written by natural resource professionals and approved by SELT’s conservation partners, including NH Fish and Game. Guided by this plan, we have begun to implement some of the recommended management activities, including timber harvests to improve overall forest health. SELT is now beginning a […]

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SELT Conserves 28-Acre Fuller Property in Brentwood, Protecting Wildlife Habitat and Future Farmland 

On December 20, SELT completed the conservation of the Fuller property in Brentwood. The Fuller family has owned the property for decades, Norma Fuller spent much of her adult life there, managing the property with her late husband, John. The property features 28 acres of field, forest, and wetlands and abuts two easement properties, providing

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SELT Celebrates Grant Awards for 100-Acre Woods in Portsmouth and Piscassic Greenway Expansion in Newmarket

Concord, NH. On Monday, December 9th, Governor Sununu joined the New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) today in announcing $3.3 million in matching grants to support twenty-six land conservation and historic preservation projects across the state. The grants will support efforts to rehabilitate 14 historic buildings and permanently conserve more than 3,314

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VIDEO: ATLAS 2024 Kicks off!

The yellow school buses have returned! Yesterday, we welcomed a legion of enthusiastic kindergartners from Epping Elementary School, who journeyed to Burley Farms to kick off the new school session of ATLAS (All-Terrain Learning Adventures). Tree-bark rubbings, circle time, hay bale hopping, and more Wild Play than you can shake a stick at (literally) – what’s

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Portsmouth City Council Unanimously Approves Contribution Up to $1 Million to Protect the 100-Acre Woods

Awesome news: on September 3, the Portsmouth City Council unanimously approved the Conservation Commission’s recommended contribution of up to $1 million from the City’s Conservation Fund to support the permanent protection of the 100-Acre Woods property. As long-time resident and retired attorney Peter Loughlin noted: “We are at one of those very rare moments in

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