The 4th of July is behind us, and PLC’s Rose Mountain Rumble benefit cycling event is suddenly just weeks away! The 4th annual Rumble returns to the dirt roads of Lyndeborough and nearby towns on Saturday, August 25th, 2018. The cost to register for the RMR is $85. Registration includes lunch, and if you register by August 10th, a super-cool Rose Mountain Rumble tee-shirt. Net proceeds benefit the Piscataquog Land Conservancy.

The Piscataquog Land Conservancy closed the books on our 2018 financial year on June 30th, and we once again finished with a balanced budget, and set a new record for individual contributions to our annual fund. To all of you who renewed your support of PLC over the last few weeks, THANK YOU! Special thanks to the generous PLC members who, with just ten days to go, made a dollar-for-dollar challenge gift of $2,500. For everybody who answered this challenge with matching gifts, we made the full match and then some!

PLC’s Rose Mountain Rumble benefit cycling event returns to the dirt roads of Lyndeborough and surrounding towns on Saturday, August 25th, 2018.   The 4th Annual Rumble will once again welcome riders of every ability, offering a variety of loops ranging from a scenic 20-miler to a full 100K course that will challenge the most hardened gravel grinder. 

After a winter that was relentless even by New Hampshire standards, spring came at last, and summer is suddenly just around the corner. The warmth and longer days bring a surge in the Piscataquog Land Conservancy’s land protection work and also signal the homestretch of our financial year. We hope you will renew your commitment to local conservation by making a gift to PLC’s annual conservation fund by the close of our fiscal year on June 30th.

PLC has reached our $300,000 fundraising goal for the Proctor land conservation project, which will protect two critical properties totaling 112 acres in Lyndeborough. The final dollars raised in late April will help us wrap up the second of two land purchases, and create a modest fund for stewardship projects like trails, stream restoration, signage, etc. To everybody who answered the call, THANK YOU!

In August 2017, the Piscataquog Land Conservancy adopted its latest five year strategic plan for the organization, covering 2018-2022. The document’s introductory sections are excerpted below. Our Purpose In 1970 … Read More

Arthur Walmsley, a leader of the Episcopal Church and longtime member of the PLC family, died this past October at the age of eighty-nine.  Bishop Walmsley was for a generation a towering figure not only in his own denomination but in the ecumenical community – a leader in civil rights, in global reconciliation, in the empowerment of women and gay people. 

In a flurry of December project closings, PLC added three more properties to our growing network of conservation lands. The projects included a conservation easement to PLC from the Francestown Land Trust (FLT) on a small but strategic parcel in Francestown, phase two of our joint conservation project along the Nissitissit River in Brookline and a 41-acre property in Lyndeborough from the Proctor Trust. 

The long-planned timber harvest at our Tuthill Woodlands Preserve in New Boston gets under way this month.  The 195-acre preserve is among PLC’s largest land ownerships, and is one of the best suited to forest management.  The work should take 4-6 week (cold) weather permitting. 

While the woods are quiet and the snow is deep, PLC is offering a series of morning snowshoes at three of our biggest and most beautiful conservation properties.  Join us for one, two, or all three!