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Water Always Wins, a book for this moment

Water Always Wins, a book for this moment

This book could not be more timely and inspiring. It is essential reading for anyone thinking about how to store and use water wisely, how to protect human infrastructure from human-created risks, and how to restore damaged ecosystems in these changing times.

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Safe Crossing—a beautiful kids' book about Big Night

Safe Crossing—a beautiful kids' book about Big Night

This beautiful new children’s book, shares the story of a family and community’s care for the amphibians in their neighborhood, especially on Big Night, the first warm, rainy night (or nights) of springs when amphibians migrate en masse from their winter habitats in upland woods to wetlands and vernal pools.

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Managing Land for Climate Resilience: NRCS EQIP CSAF Forestry Contract for the Browne, Greenough, VerPlanck Forest

Managing Land for Climate Resilience: NRCS EQIP CSAF Forestry Contract for the Browne, Greenough, VerPlanck Forest

On CLC’s recently acquired Browne, Greenough, VerPlanck Forest property, we are making strides to manage the land with climate-smart practices for current and future climate resilience.  

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For the Love of Loons: A Loon Raft Story on Chocorua Lake

For the Love of Loons: A Loon Raft Story on Chocorua Lake

CLC and the Loon Protection Committee got together this spring to install a loon nesting platform on Chocorua Lake, a “loon nest raft” built and donated by the LPC.

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Climate & Community program series update

Climate & Community program series update

 Early in 2022, Chocorua Lake Conservancy (CLC) and Cook Memorial Library (CML) met with a group of interested community members to discuss climate program possibilities. Since then, with inspiration from that group and continuing conversations with folks around the community, we have been convening an ongoing program series called Climate & Community (C&C). 

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2023 Fall/2024 Winter Newsletter

2023 Fall/2024 Winter Newsletter

Read about the work of a small land trust, Land Trust Alliance standards, upcoming projects to restore and stabilize the eastern shoreline of Chocorua Lake and repair the dam at the southern end of Little Lake, and the recent merger of the Chocorua Mountain Club into CLC. Also: a Q&A with the CLC Board of Directors, water snakes, fungi and forests, our Legacy Circle Challenge, and more!

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