Monday Memories Post 17, September 4, 2017 Hello All: Ossipee Lake Natural Area and sunset over the Ossipee Mountains If you have been lucky enough to be out on Ossipee Lake, then you know about the amazing expanse of white sand beach, peat mats and unique plants that are found there. Located on the southern
Monday Memories Post 16, August 21, 2017 Hello All: Amidst all the advocacy and early GMCG Programs, we were invited by the Chocorua Lake Association, now the Chocorua Lake Conservancy,(specifically Dwight Baldwin and Toby Page of the CLA) to join forces and hire an AmeriCorp Volunteer to partner together to create a water quality monitoring
Monday Memories Post 15, August 14, 2017 Hello All: Another important resource that we are fortunate to have in the Ossipee Watershed is Historic Resources. Many of us know about these from being active members in our town Historical Societies or because we happen upon an old cellar hole when walking in the woods. In
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
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The mission of GMCG is to promote an awareness of and appreciation for clean water and the wise use of shared natural resources across the Ossipee Watershed and advocate strategies to protect them.
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