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SAVE THE DATE
Celebration
& Annual Meeting
Friday, June 3, 2011
Dartmouth Organic Farm,
Route 10, Hanover, NH
We’ll offer a variety of activities preceding the Annual Meeting
program.
You are welcome at any or all.
Mid-Afternoon Outdoor Activities: Hike, Farm Tour & River
Road Bike Ride (weather permitting) Details will be posted
online soon at www.UVLT.org
5:30pm Social Time, Drinks, Displays, Silent Auction Benefit
Meet UVLT staff and Trustees, visit with old friends and new, pick up
information about land conservation and upcoming
events, bid on auction items.
6:00pm Casual Dinner
($20 per adult, $10 for children under
12, purchase tickets online or by phone by May 25)
7:00pm Annual Meeting Celebration
Learn of the year’s activities and
plans for the future. Conservation Awards,
Elections.
Closing with a Live Auction to benefit land conservation
in the Upper Valley.
Visit us online to buy
tickets, learn
more about the event
and bid on auction items in advance.
Image by Jay Mead
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UVLT is Hiring!
Are you a “people person” who likes organizing events
and activities? Do you have a passion for conservation,
sustainability and stewardship? The Upper Valley’s homegrown land
conservancy is looking for a Programs Coordinator to organize indoor
and outdoor events, coordinate and support volunteers, assist with
communication through publications, direct mail, websites and media
relations and support the President’s work in donor relations and
strategic planning. A complete job description is available at www.UVLT.org .
Please send resume
to: Upper Valley Land Trust, Attn: Programs Coordinator, 19
Buck Road, Hanover, NH 03755 or contactus@uvlt.org. Applications will be reviewed beginning May
23rd.
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Upper Valley Land Trust
Trustee, Roger Hanlon leads monthly hikes to explore UVLT conserved
trails. The May hike will be on the French's Ledges Trail in Meriden,
NH.
From Route 120 in Meriden,
turn west at the yellow flashing light onto Main Street and go 0.8
miles, over the hill past Kimball Union Academy (KUA) and down to a
covered bridge. Turn left onto Colby Hill Road, going through the
covered bridge. There are three trailhead options beyond this point,
marked on the map as “North,” “Middle,” and “South.”
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2011 Stewardship Volunteer Monitor Training
We had a full house for
our Volunteer Monitor Training on Saturday, April 30th.
Twelve eager volunteers learned about UVLT’s mission and stewardship
in particular. With 40,000 acres protected by UVLT across the Upper
Valley and an obligation to monitor each easement yearly, we count on
our dedicated volunteers to ensure we meet that commitment. The day
was split about evenly between indoor and outdoor time.
If you are interested in
learning more about becoming a volunteer easement monitor, please contact
Jason Berard at Jason.berard@uvlt.org or (603) 643-6626.
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Snow
Mountain Morning
On Monday, April 25, we
had a great hike around Snow Mountain with teacher, writer, and
ecologist Tom Wessels (Tom is the author of the well known Reading
the Forested Landscape and his recent work entitled Forest
Forensics is a
wonderful field guide to interpreting past land uses).
Amber Boland, UVLT’s
Conservation Mapping and Field Specialist, organized the outing which
got some of our volunteer land stewards out with some of UVLT’s staff
to take in the spring weather (finally!) and learn a bit about the
natural areas on this approximately 400 acre property. UVLT owns a ¾
interest in the land, and will likely become full owner, so we were
eager to have Tom give us some insight into what the property holds
for us and for the region!
More information gathering
will certainly follow as we consider the future management options
for this land. It is neat knowing what special sites can be found
with a little exploring (see Notes
from the Field).
If you would like to take
a trip to Snow Mountain and report back about what you see to help us
learn even more about the property, please let us know by getting in
touch with Stewardship staff Pete Helm or Jason Berard. If anything, it is a wonderful walk in the woods.
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19 Buck Road | Hanover, NH
03755 US
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