Energy & Climate: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
To understand where we’re going, we must understand how and why we got into our current predicament.
To understand where we’re going, we must understand how and why we got into our current predicament.
Fresh air, good company, and a chance to pitch in, all with a view of a beautiful mountain! Chocorua Lake Conservancy is hosting a spring cleaning at the Grove & Island public access areas along Chocorua Lake.
Good company and free exercise in the fresh air while helping protect a place we all share, with a view of a beautiful mountain to boot! Chocorua Lake Conservancy is hosting a stewardship morning at the Island and Grove public access areas along Chocorua Lake.
Help us clean up plastics and other trash before they degrade and leach pollution into the lake.
Lend a hand creating wood and brush piles for wildlife with recently-cut early successional habitat saplings, and learn about the benefits of brush piles, which provide habitat, cover, and food for many types of wildlife and insects. We will also be clipping small stumps of saplings the mower leaves behind.
We’ll be spreading wood chips, as we do regularly, to help stabilize the shore during busy seasons with lots of foot traffic. Many hands make light work!
If you love to hike Chocorua, come help keep the trails clear and safe, and meet others who also love this place.
Join us for an evening Owl Prowl with CLC Stewardship Director Debra Marnich. We’ll take a walk from The Preserve at Chocorua, following their monthly Community Soup Night benefit, listening and calling for owls and experiencing the world of nocturnal animals by the light of a near full moon.
Join longtime teacher, storyteller, and outdoor enthusiast Matt Krug for Stories Behind the Stars in Wonalancet, NH, an evening of stories and star gazing.
With our abundance of maple trees, have you ever thought of having your own sugaring operation? Are you not sure how to tell a red from a sugar maple, or what the difference is in sugar production?
What’s up and what’s new with the forest fungi? What’s the state of the wood-wide web? Are fungi running the forest?
With cold winters and long dark nights comes the opportunity to experience the unique magic of being outdoors in the brightness of a full moon on snow.
Forests for the People is the story of the forest conservation movement that started in New England and led to the establishment of 41 Eastern National Forests, including the White Mountain National Forest.
Join CLC and Tamworth Outing Club (TOC) for a Winter Fest and Second Saturday Contra Dance at The Preserve at Chocorua. Come gather with friends and neighbors for fun activities indoors and out.
The beauty of snow is that it provides us with a natural canvas where we can see the pattern of animal tracks, other signs of animal activity, and read a story about the forest in winter.
What rodent increases biodiversity wherever they spend their time, creates habitat for myriad other species, provides housing for other animals, shelters fish, and offers nesting sites for birds on the “rooftops” of their homes? Come find out!
With the diminishment of certain kinds of habitat, including convenient holes in old-growth trees, cavity nesting birds may have a harder time finding places to nest. We can help!
What does it mean to think like a forester? What does a trained forester see when they walk out into the woods? Come find out!
Shelter, warmth, tools, and even food: wood provides so many things to humans and wildlife!
With the diminishment of certain kinds of habitat, including convenient holes in old-growth trees, cavity nesting birds may have a harder time finding places to nest. We can help!
Yes, there are several large-scale solutions to the unprecedented warming of our planet, which any individual can become a part of.
Looking for a little exercise, good company, and work with a view? We’ll be clearing out the berms and swales along Chocorua Lake and can always use extra hands.
Please join The Tamworth History Center, Chocorua Lake Conservancy, the Tamworth Road Study Committee, and Hike with Friends for “Chocorua Byways”with Paul King, longtime surveyor and local history buff, and a member of the Tamworth Road Study Committee.
Come spend a beautiful autumn morning with friends and neighbors tidying the stretch of Route 16 that runs along Chocorua Lake—a gorgeous time of year to visit the lake.
The area around Chocorua Lake provides a widely diverse and rich fungal habitat. Ever wonder about the hundreds of miles of mycelium beneath our feet, of which we see only the fruiting bodies?
Fresh air! Free workout! Friends! Come spend a morning in a beautiful place stewarding land with us.
The changing world of energy production and energy use brings opportunities from jobs to cost-savings to cleaner air, as we transition to a new low-pollution energy future. What does that mean for a place like Tamworth?
Join us for Map Your World with naturalist and outdoor educator Hillary Behr, an outdoor program on reading and making maps for 6- to 12-year-old kids and their caregivers.
Only four percent of land in New Hampshire is early successional habitat, open fields, grasslands, and recently cleared forest that provides important habitat for insects, birds, and mammals, and maintaining land for these habitats in an ongoing project.
The area around Chocorua Lake provides a widely diverse and rich fungal habitat. Ever wonder about the hundreds of miles of mycelium beneath our feet, of which we see only the fruiting bodies?
Celebrate the end of summer and the gift of community with a magical lantern parade on Chocorua Lake at dusk.
In late summer, insects are everywhere! Join us for All About Insects—for kids! with naturalist and outdoor educator Hillary Behr, an exploration in the field for 3- to 9-year-olds and their caregivers.
When you take a walk you probably recognize common plants and flowers—dandelion! rose! daylily!—but when you swim or kayak, do you know the names of the plants who live in the water you are enjoying?
Land conservation and stewardship, free public access to Chocorua Lake for all visitors, trails on beautiful conservation lands, an exciting land donation—and a chance to visit with CLC staff and board members old and new, and friends and neighbors who share a love of the Chocorua Lake Basin.
If we could slow down to geological time, we would feel the earth rising and falling beneath our feet in a perpetual churn of motion. Alas, our lives are too brief. We can, however, learn to read the landscape to understand the movement that came before our time.
Join CLC Stewardship Director Debra Marnich for a leisurely guided paddle on Chocorua Lake to learn about who lives in and around the lake.
With the diminishment of certain kinds of habitat, including convenient holes in old-growth trees, some birds may have a harder time finding places to nest. We can help!