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UNION, NH – Last week, twenty conservation commissioners and community leaders traveled from towns from Wolfeboro through Barrington to attend a workshop on the duties of Conservation Commissions.
The workshop, titled “The Basics and Beyond,” was presented by Moose Mountains Regional Greenways and featured Executive Director of the New Hampshire Association of Conservation Commissions Carol Andrews. Andrews described the responsibilities of Conservation Commissions as defined by New Hampshire state statute and fielded questions both basic and complex, ranging from dredge and fill permitting to pending legislation on conservation financing coming up before the NH State House of Representatives.
Longtime Brookfield Conservation Commission Chairman Dick Peckham said afterward that the Moose Mountains workshop provided a much-needed service for local conservation commissioners.
“The topic was timely and the question and answer session valuable,” said Peckham. “Such a meeting is of great value to even the ‘old timers’ and should be held more often.”
The workshop was funded by grants from the New Hampshire Estuaries Project and the New Hampshire State Conservation Committee’s “Moose Plate” grant program.
The mission of the New Hampshire Estuaries Project is to protect, enhance and monitor the environmental quality of the state’s estuaries. For more information about the New Hampshire Estuaries Project, visit www.nhep.unh.edu or call 603-862-3948.
The “Moose Plate” program is funded by revenue from the sale of each $30 NH conservation license plate. For more information about the Moose Plate program call 603-796-2615 or visit www.mooseplate.com.
Moose Mountains Regional Greenways is a non-profit organization that works to conserve and connect the most special natural areas of New Hampshire's northern Strafford and southern Carroll counties. For more information, call 603-817-8260.
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