Rescheduled to 9/20 due to RAIN.

Only four percent of land in New Hampshire is early successional habitat, open fields, grasslands, and recently cleared forest that provides important habitat for insects, birds, and mammals, and maintaining land for these habitats in an ongoing project.

On Wednesday, September 20, from 9-11AM, join Chocorua Lake Conservancy Stewardship Director Debra Marnich for a morning of camaraderie, exercise, and maintenance of early successional habitat at Charlotte C. Browne Woods on Washington Hill Road in Chocorua. We’ll be clearing saplings in the early successional habitat strip between the new off-road parking area and the woods to maintain both the parking area and the habitat it sits within. We will also spend some time in the big field hanging new bluebird nest boxes built by volunteers!

Bring work gloves and your favorite clippers or hand saws 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 sun, bugs and ticks just in case. Meet at the parking area at C.C. Browne Woods. 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.

Banner image: The newly-planted berm at the off-road parking area by C.C.Browne, beginning to bloom with pollinator-friendly flowers. Photo: Juno Lamb