PLC is very pleased to announce that Hailey Nase has joined our staff as Stewardship Coordinator. Her position is responsible for working with PLC’s volunteer monitors to ensure that PLC’s lands and conservation easements are monitored annually. She will also be organizing and overseeing land management projects like trail building, signage, etc., and responding to any issues that arise on our properties through the year.

PLC and the Brookline Conservation Commission are co-sponsoring a guided walk at the town’s Hobart-Fessenden Woods on Sunday, June 23rd. Totaling nearly 440 acres, the property features an extensive trail system that winds through forest, across steams, and around more than fifty acres of wetlands. The land is home to bear, bobcat, and moose, and hosts an active Great Blue Heron rookery. Its amazing place, and we hope you’ll join us on the walk!

The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is entering the final weeks of our financial year. We hope you will renew your support of PLC by making a tax-deductible gift to our annual conservation fund by June 30th. Keeping all the good work going depends on the generosity of members like you. We hope you will renew, and even increase, your financial support as we continue to conserve land, water and wildlife in our hometowns.

As we head into spring, PLC is working furiously to complete four amazing land conservation projects by June 30th that if successful will permanently protect more than 700 acres in our region.  Three of them – the 205-acre Meadowsend land acquisition in Weare, 430-acre Hobart-Fessenden easement in Brookline, and the 30-acre Houghton acquisition in New Boston – all still have funding gaps that we need to fill before we can complete the projects. We think we’ll get there, but we need your help!

PLC’s 5^th Annual Rose Mountain Rumble (RMR) hits the dirt roads of Lyndeborough and surrounding towns on Saturday, August 24^th, 2019.   Last year’s Rumble attracted 150 riders and we’re capping this year’s registration at 200.  The RMR welcomes riders of every ability, offering a variety of loops from a 20-miler for more casual riders to a full 100K course to challenge the most hardened gravel grinder.  The ride begins and ends at Lyndeborough Center Hall.   Discounted “early bird” registration of $70 per rider is open through May 31st.

The Piscataquog Land Conservancy has signed a purchase and sale agreement to acquire 205 acres of ecologically-rich forest and pristine wetlands bordering our Ferrin Pond Preserve in Weare. Located almost a mile into the woods from the nearest paved road and containing almost 23 acres of wetlands and 4,700 feet of frontage on Barlett Brook, which flows north through the property’s beaver ponds and meadows toward the main branch of the Piscataquog River.

PLC has an immediate opening for a part-time Stewardship Coordinator. Primary responsibilities are managing PLC’s volunteer property monitoring program, responding to and resolving stewardship issues, acting as primary point of contact for easement landowners and other property interest holders, coordinating land management activities on PLC-owned lands, and coordinating and supporting the PLC’s Stewardship Committee. Applications are due Friday, March 22, 2019

Continuing the partnership that began with 2017’s Nissitissit land conservation project, the Town of Brookline and PLC hope to place a conservation easement on 439 acres of existing town conservation land known as Hobart-Fessenden Woods. An article authorizing the town’s donation of the easement to PLC has been placed on the town’s March warrant with the unanimous support of Brookline’s Board of Selectmen. The PLC easement will guarantee its perpetual protection.

PLC once again completed on-the-ground monitoring of every one of our 108 conservation properties and easements last year. Annual property monitoring is a fundamental responsibility of all land trusts, and PLC couldn’t do it without the support of an incredible group of volunteers. In 2018 seventy volunteer monitors collectively put in more than 450 hours walking and documenting our lands.