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MONDAY MEMORIES POST 14, August 7, 2017 Hello All, It is with a heavy heart that GMCG and friends across the Ossipee Watershed bid farewell to Ned Hatfield of Freedom.  Our thoughts go out to Ned’s family and friends and his sweet wife Pat.  May his spirit continue to guide us all and help us […]

Monday Memories  Post 13,  July 31, 2017  Hello All: As GMCG moved into 2000—a new decade and new millennium—more and more advocacy challenges presented themselves as well as several new programs.   Partnership with UNH Cooperative Extension brought the completion of the new GIS natural resource maps of all of the Watershed Towns.  Presentations and workshops were […]

Dear Friends, MAY 1, 2017 marked the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the Green Mountain Conservation Group. While I know many amazing things have happened and there has been so much positive conservation work done as a result of this path, it also came with much pain and a compromise to my time as […]

Monday Memories  Post 11,  July 10, 2017  Hello All: 1999 was also a year full of natural resource advocacy.  OK. So I am trying to get my head around this. Each Monday I look through old GMCG paper files for inspiration and for memories. You can imagine my surprise when I found a file about Ossipee […]

Monday Memories  Post 12,  July 17, 2017  Hello All: Advocacy in 1999 included aquifer protection on Ossipee Lake, aquifer protection in Effingham and Tamworth, and natural resource protection in Pine River State Forest.  Education and outreach remained GMCG’s main focus in those early years.  Volunteers and staff would give presentations to each town’s municipal boards about […]

Monday Memories  Post 10,  July 3, 2017  Hello All: 1999 was also GMCG’s first year of Watershed Weekend—Forestry in the Watershed  1999 was also a year of GMCG’s first Watershed Weekend co-hosted by Camp Calumet on Ossipee Lake.  The very first Watershed Weekend featured Forestry in the Watershed.  It was a packed day with incredible speakers, […]

Monday Memories  Post 9,  June 26, 2017  Hello All: (Standing in for Executive Director, Blair Folts, who is traveling this week.) “2001 introduction to saving a special place for the community” My husband Dave and I had always wanted to live in a log home at the end of a lane.  We left the corporate world […]

Monday Memories  Post 8,  June 19, 2017  Hello All: “1999 was full advocacy but also new work on natural resource based planning in partnership with UNH Cooperative Extension” 1999 was a year of many advocacy campaigns. It also was the start of a partnership with UNH Cooperative Extension on natural resource based planning and the new […]

Monday Memories  Post 7,  June 12, 2017  Hello All: “By the end of 1998 GMCG had already practiced what it has become known for—science based advocacy”   1998 saw many land use change issues that would confront natural resource conservation. As mentioned last week, liquidation logging was happening all over the Watershed and sparked conversations and workshops […]

Monday Memories  Post 6,  June 5, 2017  Hello All: “1998 was a busy year”  We were approved for our 501 c 3 in January of 1998 and received our very first grant award from the New England Grassroots Fund for $2000. With a diverse Board of Directors, seed money and a host of challenges facing the […]