FARMINGTON, NH—The New Hampshire Estuaries Project has awarded Moose Mountains Regional Greenways an $8,500 grant to undertake a comprehensive Public Outreach/Education Campaign. The initiative is intended to provide essential information to regional landowners, community leaders and the public about the value of preserving critical natural resources such as lakes and rivers, wetlands, drinking water resources and wildlife habit. The campaign will include public workshops, mailings, articles in local newspapers, information delivered online, printed brochures and handouts.
By undertaking this initiative, Moose Mountains Regional Greenways will help NH Estuaries Project to achieve its own organizational objectives, which include supporting land conservation efforts and encouraging conservation easements in shoreland areas, supporting volunteer organizations active in improving water quality and habitat, and using the media to enhance educational efforts.
Moose Mountains Regional Greenways will focus its efforts toward the communities within its area of operations: Brookfield, Farmington, Middleton, Milton, New Durham and Wakefield. This region encompasses the headwaters of several regional waterways in the Piscataqua Watershed, including the Cocheco River, Salmon Falls River, Branch River and Mad River. Poised on the edge of the heavily developed southeastern corner of the state, the communities served by Moose Mountains Regional Greenways still feature many large, unfragmented blocks of shoreline, woodlands and wetlands that feature highly varied plant and animal habitat.
The organization hopes to instill a stronger conservation ethos within its member communities by increasing local awareness of the region’s most important conservation features. By providing information on land protection options and resources, Moose Mountains Regional Greenways hopes to facilitate the permanent preservation of these valuable natural resources.
Moose Mountain Regional Greenways is a non-profit organization that works to protect and connect the most special undeveloped lands of Brookfield, Farmington, Middleton, Milton, New Durham and Wakefield, New Hampshire. For more information, contact 603-817-8260 or visit www.moosemountaingreenway.org.
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