Resources

Nute's Notes on Timber Harvests--Jon Nute was the Hillsborough County Forester and is now retired. A timber harvest is a major disturbance in…

Over the years, New Hampshire’s floodplain forests have been cleared for development due to their proximity to river systems, and plowed under for…

Each year in the United States, Americans spend more than one-half billion dollars feeding birds. In fact, one in three North American households…

Introduction Land application of clean municipal sludge (biosolids) offers potential benefits for some New Hampshire forest soils. These benefits…

What is Forest Stewardship? Taking the time to care for your land is called "stewardship"- the desire to leave the land better than you…

Forest land can be assessed in current use under one of two ranges of values: one which reflects the costs of land stewardship, or one which doesn’t…

A field note is a periodic report from "the field," based on observation and experience. If you have a field…

September 2018 was the final deadline for maple operations who have to comply with some or all of the Preventive Controls for Human Food rule of FSMA…

This workshop teaches participations how to use how to use a combination of maps, images, videos, and text to tell stories through interactive ArcGIS…

Video: How to use the free EDDMaps Website and Mobile App to learn more about invasive species, their distributions and participant in tracking and…

This workshop will provide hands-on practice using ArcGIS Online to create custom online maps and share them with others. All exercises will be…

Learn the basics of Geographic Informations System (GIS) and start making your own maps! This course will help you use GIS software to make maps in…

Participants learn to map natural resources and community assets while exploring methods for sharing maps with others. Each participant will have a…

Grassland habitats are an increasingly rare site in New Hampshire. More than 70 species of wildlife use these open areas of fields and wildflowers to…

New Hampshire has laws and regulations designed to encourage responsible timber harvesting and minimize environmental impacts of logging. Landowners…

Headwater streams are small streams and wetlands at the highest end of a watershed. Some are so small that they don’t show up on maps. If a river…

Hemlock-hardwood-pine forest is the most wide-spread habitat in New Hampshire. considered the transitional forest habitat between lower elevations of…

Each year, over 250 of your fellow seasonal and year-round New Hampshire residents collect water quality measurements on nearby lakes, ponds, and…

Tree Features Influencing Ice Storm Susceptibility A number of characteristics increase a tree species’ susceptibility to ice storms: “included”…

Our latest count shows 86 native tree species in New Hampshire. The exact number is hard to determine because some are rare, some are mostly found as…