We had an encouraging start to the 2024 nesting season as the loons were successful this year in choosing a high and dry nesting area on the shoreline of the lake.
For the Love of Loons: A Loon Raft Story on Chocorua Lake
Bird Language resource list
First-ever CLC/GMCG Big Night!
We had an amazing, first-ever CLC & Green Mountain Conservation Group (GMCG) Big Night Salamander Brigade with a total of 156 amphibians crossing Washington Hill Road while we were out.
Pesticides & Pollinators
Owl Prowl Resource List
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.
Santa Claus (Deconstructed) (with special attention to birch trees, mushrooms, and reindeer)
GMCG Wildlife Corridors Workshop replay and resource list
A big thank you to Green Mountain Conservation Group for hosting CLC Stewardship Director Deb Marnich and Haley Andreozzi from UNHCE for Wednesday’s Wildlife Corridors Workshop. If you missed it, here is the replay and the resource list from GMCG—thanks to them for this, as well, and for all the work they do protecting the water in this region.
2023 Fall/2024 Winter Newsletter
Read about the work of a small land trust, Land Trust Alliance standards, upcoming projects to restore and stabilize the eastern shoreline of Chocorua Lake and repair the dam at the southern end of Little Lake, and the recent merger of the Chocorua Mountain Club into CLC. Also: a Q&A with the CLC Board of Directors, water snakes, fungi and forests, our Legacy Circle Challenge, and more!