In 2023, Chocorua Mountain Club merged into Chocorua Lake Conservancy, and a new coalition of trail stewards is coming together to care for the well-used trails on Mount Chocorua. You’re invited, too!
Climate & Community program series update
Early in 2022, Chocorua Lake Conservancy (CLC) and Cook Memorial Library (CML) met with a group of interested community members to discuss climate program possibilities. Since then, with inspiration from that group and continuing conversations with folks around the community, we have been convening an ongoing program series called Climate & Community (C&C).
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.
CMC Trails Committee seeks volunteers
Now that the Chocorua Mountain Club has been merged into CLC, and as the CLC expands its own trail stewardship, we are seeking volunteers to help in different ways to care for the many trails up Mount Chocorua and on nearby conservation land.
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!
Nature Notes: SOS Save Our Snakes — Northern Water Snake
Celebrating the Chocorua Mountain Club and Chocorua Lake Conservancy Merger
Big Solutions to Climate Change—replay & resource list
Thank you to David Kunhardt for his presentation on Big Solutions to Climate Change, and to Cook Library for their partnership on the Climate & Community program series.