There are still an awful lot of extra obstacles on an awful lot of trails as a result of last winter’s ice storm, and various groups will be getting together to do something about it.
This coming Sunday morning, a group from the Wilton Lyndeborough Winter Wanders snowmobile club will be working on the rail trail through [...]

Trail Expo  - Sunday May 17 at Hampshire Hills - 12:00 to 5:00 PM.
 
FREE ADMISSION FOR THE PUBLIC
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR ATTENDEES.
 
We have presentations for young and old alike!
 
·         Fritz Wetherbee, whom we all see nightly on “NH Chronicle” on WMUR TV will be at the expo giving  a talk.  We think he will be [...]

Besides being fun to say and spell, the Nissitissit is one of the nicest navigable rivers around… it smells and looks clean, it’s narrow and windy and it flows through some lovely parts of our region (including Lake Potanipo, and few conservation areas).
The Brookline Conservation Committee is organizing a group outing on what is reputed [...]

Milford Conservation Commission Coordinator Rita Carroll writes: 

 
 
Trail Expo  - Sunday May 17 at Hampshire Hills - free admission 
 
The Milford Conservation Commission is sponsoring its second Trail Expo on Sunday, May 17 from  12:00 noon to 5pm at the Hampshire Hills Sports and Fitness Center, Emerson Rd., Milford, NH.  We are expecting this event to [...]

If you haven’t explored the Arched Bridge Conservation area lately (off Middle Dunstable Road, literally spitting distance over the state line), you might consider a look. The Dunstable Rural Land Trust has opened and marked several trails previously posted as off-limits, thanks to the wisdom and generosity of voters at a recent town meting.
This, too, [...]

“Where the Rivers Meet,
an NRWA Hike”
The public is invited to explore the new conservation area that protects the important confluence of the Squannacook and Nashua Rivers in Shirley.  Nashua River Watershed Association (NRWA) Land Programs Director, Al Futterman will lead this free “Where the Rivers Meet” walk on Sunday, May 3rd from 10:00 AM [...]

Before we get to this bulletin from the NH Department of Safety, let me add a few words of my own to all you cell-phone gabbing, sandwich-eating, hair-combing, child-scolding, line-crossing, light-running, no-signal-using, driving-with-intent-to-murder (plural expletive): Please pay attention to the road and others using it while you are driving, before you kill someone like me.
Thank you.
And now, [...]

So we didn’t find any marbled salamanders in Hollis, but at least now I have a clue about what baby salamanders look like, thanks to these pix from NH Fish and Game wildlife biologist Mike Marchand, showing a juvenile and two larval marbled salamanders:

I’m still waiting to see our photos, which will run with a story on Sunday, but meanwhile, Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust Exec. Director Jane Calvin sent some that she took of our raft. That’s Zoar Outdoor’s Amber Tulloch steering the boat in back, myself on the starboard bow, a Lowell Sun reporter portside, and Grant Morris  [...]

I don’t mind cold weather a bit, but I hate cold water. That was my only worry this morning, as I squirmed into my wet suit and spray jacket for a trip with Zoar Outdoor down the Concord River in Lowell.
Yeah, whitewater rafting in downtown Lowell. Who’d have thunk it?
Though this was their first trip [...]