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Today marks the successful completion of a year long effort to save an apple orchard in Concord.

NHPR's Doug Macpherson recently visited the 150 acre Sunnycrest Farm to speak with David Houghton of the Trust for Public Land, or TPL.

Houghton explained how his group got involved with the effort to save the farm from development after its owners, the Hicks family, decided to sell it.

Our weekly visit to local editors or reporters takes us to Edith Tucker of the Coos County Democrat who covered Thursday's meeting about the IP land deal

We?re the nation?s second most forested state, so it?s no surprise wood is so important to our economy. Trees are used for everything from building homes to the paper in your office. But many loggers and mill owners are worried about the future due to depressed paper markets and tough global competition. Laura talks with Jasen Stock, executive directer of the NH Timberland Owners Association www.nhtoa.org and Brad Wyman, who worked in the industry for almost 30 years.

According to some measures, New Hampshire lakes rate pretty well compared to other states. Even so, threats to that are growing. Invasive plants are a big problem, and more people than ever use the resource placing demands on the ecology. We'll get an update on how our lakes are doing and what it takes to manage them. Laura's guests are Jody Connor, director of the NH Department of Environmental Services Limnology Center www.des.state.nh.us and Nancy Christie, executive director of the NH Lakes Association www.nhlakes.org.

Dick Henry of Concord, is the founder of Bellwether Solutions. With Public Service of New Hampshire, he's working on a pilot program that puts flocks of sheep to work controlling vegetation under power lines. If successful, the project could be a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to mechanical mowing. It may also prove useful in controlling other invasive plant species, like kudzu.