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Hanover Conservancy’s 60th Anniversary Celebration

October 5, 2021

This past Saturday we held our 60th anniversary celebration at the Dartmouth Rivercrest field across from our office at 71 Lyme Rd in Hanover. 76 people came out to help celebrate 60 years of community conservation with Hanover Conservancy and we had a chance to hear stories from fellow community members. It was very heartwarming to be able to capture a photo with past and present board members from 1961 till now. We also had the opportunity to recognized our key partners.

Russell Hirschler- Upper Valley Trails Alliance
Julia Griffin & Rob Houseman- Town of Hanover
J.T. Horn- Trust for Public Land
Betsy McGean- Trust for Public Land & former president

A huge thank you to our event sponsors!

Revision Energy

Fisher Financial Advisor

Poverty Lane Orchards

Special Thanks to

Dartmouth College

Lars Blackmore- Ameridane Press

Lyme Road Dental, Neal Wallace Dental

Sheridan Printing

Red Clover

Hanover Parks & Recreation

Those Guys of Lyme

Introducing our New Program Coordinator, Myrilla Hartkopf

August 10, 2021

The Hanover Conservancy is pleased to announce that Myrilla has joined our staff, taking over responsibilities for our Land Stewardship and Community Engagement Programs – our trails and trips.

Myrilla comes to us from the NH Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, where she coordinated land stewardship activities on 31 properties, including legal monitoring, invasive plant treatment, trail work, boundary marking, ecological monitoring, and management plan drafting. Myrilla also developed and managed a volunteer program for preserve stewardship, community science projects, and ecological monitoring. She has experience with GIS analysis, mapping, and data collection, is chainsaw certified, and has also worked on prescribed fire operations in NH and ME.

Myrilla previously was a land steward at Southeast Land Trust, monitoring easements, working with landowners, and helping with trail design and maintenance, invasive plant removal, and more. The Exeter Conservation Commission and UNH Cooperative Extension have also benefitted from her work. In New Zealand, she conducted an ecological study of the effects of agricultural land use on stream quality.

In addition to her land stewardship work, Myrilla is also an experienced environmental educator. She has worked at The Gundalow Company summer program teaching youth programs on environmental stewardship and maritime heritage of the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth as well as adult volunteers in the North Country and Seacoast regions.

Myrilla has a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Conservation and Sustainability from UNH. She grew up on a small organic farm in central Maine that is still operated by her family. Reach her at mhartkopf@hanoverconservancy.org.

NEW Nature Poetry Walk at Hayes Farm

July 14, 2020

Gail McPeek, a longtime volunteer and former Conservancy board member, and Barbara Prince, librarian at the Etna Library, put together a wonderful new self-guided event at the Hayes Farm Park. Park at the Etna Library and follow the mowed path up through the meadows, stopping to read nature-themed poems along the way. Hiking surface is fairly level and easy. Download the Nature Poetry Walk brochure here, or grab one at the library on your way!

We want to hear from YOU!

June 4, 2020

Please Tell Us What You Think

The Hanover Conservancy – the oldest local land trust in New Hampshire – will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2021! As we prepare for our next 5 years, we ask you to share your thoughts and ideas to help us contribute most effectively to the quality of life in our community.

The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete. Your answers will be kept confidential. If you provide your contact information at the end, you will be entered into a drawing to win a basket of goods and services from Hanover businesses. This will not affect the confidentiality of your responses.

Thank you for your help!

Heidi Trimarco, President

Hanover Conservancy

TAKE THE SURVEY

We encourage you to forward this to your friends and neighbors. The more we hear, the more we’ll learn, and the better we can serve our community.

Earth Day turns 50!

April 22, 2020

2020 marks the 50^th anniversary of the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 – and the beginning of the environmental movement that has inspired so much healthy, positive change in how we treat our home planet. Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, US Senator from Wisconsin, came up with the idea after witnessing a massive oil spill in California. It was the Vietnam Era; Sen. Nelson hoped to infuse the energy of anti-war protests with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution to force environmental protection onto the national political agenda.

Organizers chose April 22 (between Spring Break and final exams), for an event that drew 20 million Americans — 10% of the total US population — to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast protests, uniting groups fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife. Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, gaining support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, urban dwellers and farmers, business and labor leaders. Congress soon passed the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts and created the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Spring Trips Postponed

April 17, 2020

We’re disappointed to postpone our trips until we can safely get together again. Look for a new self-guided Hike of the Month in our May e-news.

If you’re headed out, please remember:

Enjoy your companions from a distance
Leash your dog – uncontrolled dog meetups can make things unsafe for their owners too
If a trailhead parking is full when you arrive, have a Plan B for a trail less traveled
Leave higher elevation and muddy trails until they’ve dried out
The Appalachian Trail is closed for now