Places Volume 1

Making a
Greenway
Conservation
NEW HAMPSHIRE
A land trust in southern New Hampshire aims to protect
open spaces in a sprawl-threatened region.
Southern New Hampshire is one of
the fastest growing areas in northern
New England due to its beautiful open
spaces combined with its proximity to
urban centers like Boston, Manchester,
New Hampshire, and Portland, Maine. Of
course, the fields, forests, hills, and
rivers that make up that open space are
being gobbled up by development. The
last 15 years have seen some great work
done by a variety of organizations that
are striving to protect priority southern
New Hampshire wild spaces, from the
oyster beds of Great Bay, to the
forests surrounding the bay’s biggest
tributary, the federally designated
Wild and Scenic Lamprey River.
Today, the NGO taking the lead in the
region is the Southeast Land Trust of
New Hampshire, which is working in
conjunction with several towns, the
state, and other NGO’s to conserve a
greenway from Great Bay to the 5000+
acres in Pawtuckaway State Park in
Deerfield. This year, I photographed
several land conservation projects for
the land trust totaling close to 3500
acres that will protect key links in the
envisioned greenway.
12 ECOPHOTOGRAPHY DECEMBER 2015