New England’s only native cottontail rabbit species is in peril. Over the past few decades, the New England cottontail has seen significant declines throughout its range, and the ongoing trend of habitat loss will further threaten the species in coming years. Fortunately, private landowners are in a position to make a significant contribution to the restoration of the species.

Guidelines for conducting forest management in and adjacent to wetlands and surface waters are known as best management practices. This booklet contains these guidelines, some of which are law.

Describes Best Management Practices (BMPs) for protecting water quality during forest harvests.

This publication will help you learn what ticks look like, how they
live, and how to protect yourself from tick-borne disease.

Workshop Proceedings 2011 including: tree biology, insects, diseases, weeds, diagnosing problems, pesticides (insecticides, fungicides, miticides and herbicides) and more.

Recorded webinar on using the contact management system

You can realize your full potential as a steward of your forest by using this guide, entitled Forest Resource Management: A Landowner’s Guide to Getting Started.

Second edition 2010. The purpose of this guide is to provide New Hampshire landowners, and the professionals that work with them, practical recommendations on sustainable management practices for individual forest ownerships. From this website, the entire book or individual chapters can be viewed and printed as pdfs or individual chapters can be viewed and printed as html.

Presentations from a workshop held April 13 and June 22, 2006

Article about management of New England Cottontail habitat