20th Anniversary – 20 Years of Memories

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”   Click on Article to read 1998 saw many land use change issues that would confront natural resource conservation. As mentioned last week, liquidation logging was happening all over

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

Monday Memories  Post 5,  May 29, 2017  Hello All: “How we arrived at our mission and how we expanded to include 7 towns instead of just one”.    With a paper bag and $150 in change, I personally felt a strong commitment to go forth and successfully get the 501 c 3.  A stranger had

MONDAY MEMORIES POST 4, MAY 22, 2017 Hello All, TODAY:    “Everyone has change lying around their house.” Summer moved on into fall as we continued to meet at different kitchen tables.  By September we were ready for our first organized meeting as Green Mountain Conservation Group with a full agenda.  There were concerns about liquidation