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$10 million Grant to Fund Connecticut River Watershed
January 17, 2015The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded part of a $10 million grant through the Farm Bill’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program to the Connecticut River Watershed Council and its partners to improve the health of the watershed. The grant will be matched dollar-for-dollar by other state, local, and private funding sources for numerous conservation projects throughout New Hampshire and New England.
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Something Wild: Early Wood Manufacturing Powered By Water
In August, NH towns celebrate "Old Home Days." Forest Society founders, Frank Rollins and Nahum Batchelder conceived "Old Home Week” in 1899. It was designed to lure wealth back to NH to revitalize depressed rural economies and bring abandoned farms back onto tax rolls.
