Fresh air! Free workout! Friends! Come spend a morning in a beautiful place stewarding land with us.

Please join Chocorua Lake Conservancy Stewardship Director Deb Marnich on Wednesday, May 10, 9-11AM, for a Stewardship Morning at Moose Meadows, right off of Route 16 across from the quilt shop and just south of the Stoney Brooke Sawyers. We’ll be weeding around and mulching fruiting shrubs we’ve planted there to improve mast food sources—e.g. berries and nuts—for wildlife, and trimming around the edge of the field. We will discuss ways to encourage a diverse habitat and resilient landscapes for wildlife and pollinators in a changing climate.

Bring work gloves and clippers, loppers, hand saws and/or a shovel if you have them, water and a snack, and please wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. We will have some tools available if needed. Be prepared for bugs and ticks just in case. Feel free to come for all or some of the morning. We’ll meet at the entrance to the field, across from the quilt shop—you can pull into the field by the tree with CLC and NRCS signs on it. 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: Moose Meadows in June. Photo: Alex Moot