Conservation

Governor's Budget Would Restore LCHIP Funding

Sam Evans-Brown — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:33:07 +0000

Governor Hassan’s is proposing the state restore funding to Environmental groups’ first priority: the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program. The $4 million dollars a year for LCHIP comes from fees tacked generated by certain real-estate transactions. It’s supposed to go into a dedicated fund used to put land and historic building into preservation.

Protection Of 215 Acres In Durham Among Projects Receiving LCHIP Grants

Michael Brindley — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:45:30 +0000

The protection of 215 acres of land in Durham is among 18 conservation and preservation projects to receive funding through the Land & Community Heritage Investment Program.

The program this week announced it would be awarding $475,500 in grants, spread out in various amounts among the 18 projects.

Gorilla Tourism's Downside

Virginia Prescott — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:06:34 +0000

More than three decades ago, the Mountain Gorilla project started a tourism project to save the threatened gorilla population from poaching. The project hired poachers as park rangers and demonstrated that live gorillas were much more valuable as tourist attractions than dead ones. Since then, gorilla tourism has added hundreds of millions of foreign tourist dollars to state coffers in Central Africa, and the great ape populations have seen a modest rebound.

National "Blueways"

EarthTalk — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:41:03 +0000

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Dear EarthTalk: The federal government recently designated the Connecticut River watershed as the nation’s first “National Blueway.” What is a National Blueway and does such a designation come with any funding for conservation or other purposes?

Silent Spring

Chris Martin and Francie Von Mertens — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring", woke the world up to the perils of chemicals that promised food crops free of disease and insects, and time outdoors free of mosquitoes. The book is credited with starting the modern environmental movement. It was the birdwatchers that first alerted the scientists about robins literally falling from the sky soon after DDT was sprayed, as well as longer-term declines in birds higher on the food chain.

Turkey Season Opens, Thanks to Turkey Restoration Project

Sam Evans-Brown — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:57:39 +0000

Today is the first day of a quintessential Granite State tradition: turkey hunting season.

Wildlife Heroes

Virginia Prescott — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:04:37 +0000

A new book by Jeff Flocken captures the ongoing battle to fight animal extinction on film.

The White Mountain School Wins Regional Conservation Challenge

Chris Jensen — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:38:35 +0000

The White Mountain School in Bethlehem beat almost three dozen other boarding schools in the Northeast in a recent competition to reduce electrical use.

The schools were competing in the national 2012 Green Cup Challenge, in which 116 schools in 22 states competed.

2300 Acres Conserved in North Country

Chris Jensen — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:02:36 +0000

A large tract of some of the North Country’s most beautiful terrain has been protected from development.

A new conservation easement is going to protect land around Pittsburg and the Connecticut River.

Bats Get A Break With 1,000 Acre Easement

Chris Jensen — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:34:00 +0000

Almost 1,100 acres of land in the North Country will be protected against development under a new conservation easement that will benefit loggers, people who enjoy the woods and perhaps most important of all – a devastated bat population. NHPR’s Chris Jensen reports.

The easement will permanently protect more than 1,000 acres of land on Gardner Mountain in Lyman.

It’s an important habitat for wildlife, but especially so for bats.