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Taking Action for Wildlife is a joint endeavor by UNH Cooperative
Extension
and the NH Fish & Game Department. Read on to learn about the NH
Wildlife Action Plan and how you can Take Action for Wildlife through
websites, workshops, community projects, resources and more! |
GRANIT Data Mapper now has
2010 Wildlife Action Plan maps data!
 For
easy creation and printing of maps, if you don't have a GIS program, go to the GRANIT Data Mapper
and click Wildlife under Select a theme. The
2010 data for the Habitats and Highest Ranked Condition maps are now there. The Condition Rankings data is now shown in
the standard solid pink and green colors that we have all come to love! For some hints and tips on how to use the Data
Mapper, click here to visit the NH Fish and Game Website page.
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 The NEW Good Forestry in the Granite State to be Published Soon!
After
a two-year process led by a 24-member steering committee,
the second edition of Good Forestry in
the Granite State, originally published in 1997, is being readied for
publication. Look for news about how to order Good Forestry in upcoming
issues of this newsletter and at www.goodforestry.org. We are in the
final phases of publishing Good Forestry as
a book, cd, and on the web and it will "hit the streets" well before the
end of
the year. Read More |
New England Cottontail
Rabbit Update: 
Management Underway in New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is
taking action to create habitat for the New England cottontail rabbit with
funds provided through the State Wildlife
Grants Program. The multi-year
effort to create hundreds of acres of the dense, shrubby thickets required by
New England cottontails began last winter on four properties owned by the Department
in the Seacoast region - the Bellamy Wildlife Management Area, the Martineau
Tract, the Palmer Tract, and the Beaudette Tract.Read More
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 Landowners Taking Action
For Wildlife
Fred Ernst: Managing Land
For Wildlife Economically
Fred
Ernst owns 670 acres of forestland in Acworthm, NH. His interest in managing
land for wildlife began during his career in a forest-based industry. As Fred
describes it, "We practiced sustainability of forests and encouraging wildlife
was a natural part of the process. When I bought the land in Acworth in 2001,
the land had been "high graded" [most commercial quality trees removed], which
had a lot to do with my ideas for improvement". Read More
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A Tale of Tw o
Communities, Two
Lakes and Two Thousand Acres
We've
followed the progress of two communities who received assistance from
the Taking Action for Wildlife team. In 2008 and 2009, the city of Keene
and the town of Springfield participated in the Taking Action for
Wildlife Program conducted by NH Fish & Game and UNH Cooperative
Extension.
Both communities have taken steps to proactively protect wildlife
habitat in
their communities. Here's what they have accomplished. Read More
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 Knowing Vernal Pools
Being
a senior in high school with a real hunger for new experiences, my interest was
piqued when I first heard about the Town of Tamworth's vernal pool monitoring
program. Having spent portions of my early childhood living in the woods of Maine, I fancied myself a child
of this sort of habitat. Where I lived, the always muddy little road leading up
to our home would sometimes be rendered impassible by the rising waters of the
surrounding wetlands in the early spring (except by canoe, of course). In my earliest
memories, nighttime was never without the familiar voice of the spring peeper. Read More
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Photo Credits: Banner
photos (Ben Kimball, NH Fish &Game, and Amanda Stone), Cottontail
Management (Emma Carcagno), Fred Ernst property (Malin Clyde), Vernal
Pools (Mia Akaogi), Goose Pond (Lynn Smith) Fall scenes (Amanda Stone)
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