Chocorua Lake

For the Love of Loons: A Loon Raft Story on Chocorua Lake

For the Love of Loons: A Loon Raft Story on Chocorua Lake

CLC and the Loon Protection Committee got together this spring to install a loon nesting platform on Chocorua Lake, a “loon nest raft” built and donated by the LPC.

4.6 Billion Years of Chocorua Lake Conservancy History

4.6 Billion Years of Chocorua Lake Conservancy History

This past September, the Friends of the Cook Memorial Library asked us to speak at their Annual Meeting and share the history and current activity of CLC with their group. Many thanks to the Friends for this invitation, which provided the impetus to write a short history of the Lake Basin and the CLC.

Help Us Find Great Board and Committee Members

Help Us Find Great Board and Committee Members

The CLC Board of Directors and its committees are made up of people with diverse skills, viewpoints, and interests who share a love of this region and its human and other-than-human inhabitants.

2023 Spring/Summer Newsletter

2023 Spring/Summer Newsletter

Our spring/summer newsletter is out. It includes our Annual Report, stories about stewards, soil, lake bathymetry, poison ivy, and lots more! If you didn’t get one in the mail, hard copies will be available throughout the summer at our kiosks in the Grove and at the Island on Chocorua Lake, and in the CLC office in Chocorua Village, or you can download a digital version here.

Chocorua's Bottom

Chocorua's Bottom

Though we admire the topography surrounding Chocorua Lake, we seldom think about the fact that the lake bottom has its own topography, referred to as “bathymetry.” The shape of the land surface, above or below water, tells a story of the natural forces and processes that shaped the earth—how mountains and lakes came to be.