Stewardship with an extraordinary glacial erratic and mixed habitat to explore. Come spend a morning learning in community and caring for a beautiful place that is being managed to provide food and habitat for wildlife.

Please join Chocorua Lake Conservancy Stewardship Director Debra Marnich on Thursday, November 10, 9-11:30AM, for a Stewardship Morning at C.C. Browne Woods on Washington Hill Road in Chocorua. First, we’ll spread wood chips to improve the footpath through the field and to protect the flora around it. Then, we’ll follow the trail into the woods for a brief pre-winter cleanup. We’ll remove sticks and small logs off the trail and, as we go, discuss forest, river, and field ecology and how the arrangement of all habitats, on a landscape level, is critically important to maintain natural systems and wildlife habitat.

Please bring snacks, water, a shovel and/or rake, loppers, work gloves, sturdy boots, a great sense of humor, and curiosity. If you don't have tools, the CLC will be happy to supply them. Please also wear a blaze orange item of clothing. Feel free to come for all or some of the morning. Please register in advance 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.

The Chocorua River at Charlotte C. Browne Woods. Photo: Alex Moot