Mt. Kearsarge
This year, I plan to visit all of NH's State Parks, waysides, and historic sites. In May, I visited 14 state parks, thanks to a long...
Treasures all around...musings on the Sugar River Valley
Out in Unity, just over the Claremont line, the Sullivan County Complex stretches across acres of forest and meadows. This complex is...
Perseverance
The rushing water was the only sound I could hear as I stood on a bridge overlooking the sculptured rocks geologic area. On both sides, I...
The Hiking Club
A friend of mine who lives in Minnesota recently shared with me that she is part of a State Parks Hiking Club. I thought it was a group...
A Walk in the Woods with a Forester
(Based on an interview with Jeremy Turner, Managing Forester of Meadowsend Consulting Co.) Imagine you are walking along an old road in a...
Ecological Renewal at Stowell Property
In 2018, the County hired Meadowsend Consulting Co. to develop a new 10-year forest management plan for the County Lands in Unity in...
Green Goo or Cyanobacteria
Until recently, I had only heard of cyanobacteria as it relates to lichen. Lichen is a composite organism made up of a fungal partner and...
Volunteer Spotlight: John Lambert
A go getter if there ever was one, John Lambert hit the ground running as a Natural Resources Dept. volunteer. This fall, he realized...
Reindeer Food
I first encountered reindeer lichen in the high elevations of the Smokies in Tennessee and North Carolina. It grows on heath balds with...
Pomological Musings
Wild apples on public lands and the people who study them.
