Stewardship with trails to wander afterward, an extraordinary glacial erratic, and mixed habitat to explore. Come spend a morning in a beautiful place that is being managed to provide food and habitat for wildlife.

Please join Chocorua Lake Conservancy Stewardship Director Debra Marnich on Wednesday, October 5, 9-11:30AM, for a Stewardship Morning at C.C. Browne Woods on Washington Hill Road in Chocorua. We’ll be clearing saplings from the field in preparation for mowing, and clearing small trees and shrubs that are growing out of the stone wall. Come learn how the CLC is working to enhance wildlife habitat on some of our properties. Eighty percent of New Hampshire is forested, so early successional and open field habitats are highly valuable habitats for wildlife and pollinators. At this time of the year pollinators that are migrating, such as monarchs, are in need of food sources for the long journey south. Maintaining field habitat by mowing and clearing in the late fall will ensure a late-season food source and also habitat for the following year.

If you are able, please bring some combination of: clippers, long-handed clippers or loppers, a hand saw, a brush cutter, as well as work gloves, and water and snacks if you like. We’ll have some extra tools, as well. Be prepared for bugs and ticks just in case.

Feel free to come for all or some of the morning. Please register below so that we can let you know of any changes in the schedule.

CLC Stewardship Director Debra Marnich holds a BS in Zoology and an MS in Forestry. Her major interests and professional focus areas include combining wildlife and forestry practices to manage for both sound silvicultural and optimum wildlife habitat, creating early successional and bird nesting habitat, pollinator habitat creation, promoting small diverse farms local food production/agriculture, promoting land conservation and protection, environmental education, and integrating all resources concerns to create a balanced conservation system.

Banner image: The stone wall at C.C. Browne Woods. Photo: Sheldon Perry