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.
Santa Claus (Deconstructed) (with special attention to birch trees, mushrooms, and reindeer)
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.
The Ossipee Aquifer: A Story of Water
2022 Spring/Summer Newsletter
Katherine Loring's 1921 hike, continued...
The Cold & Snowy Winter of 1952
Forest Land Donation Protects Open Space
The Chocorua Lake Conservancy (CLC) has gratefully received a donation of a 75-acre parcel of forestland off of Savary Road in Chocorua, NH. The new Browne, Greenough, VerPlanck Forest became official on December 17, 2021 with the gift of the property by the Browne, Greenough, and VerPlanck families.
Fall 2021/Winter 2022 Newsletter
Thank you to Jeff Schloss
UNH Extension Natural Resources Team Leader Jeff Schloss is retiring. Jeff played an integral role in the diagnosis and treatment of water quality challenges in Chocorua Lake in the later 1990s. Dwight Baldwin, a longtime CLC water quality volunteer, has shared this letter of gratitude to Jeff.