The Hanover Conservancy is pleased and proud to share with you our new video honoring our 60th anniversary milestone. During 2021, we worked with videographer and Hanover High School student Ezra McGinley-Smith to capture Hanover’s most meaningful conservation places, partners, and progress. Check out our Celebrating 60 years for more info about HC and Ezra
Meet our new Board Members!

Marc Hiller – Marc has worked with forestry companies, nonprofit organizations, and communities on sustainable forest management and conservation issues. He currently works with Mercuria’s Environmental Products group, supporting landowners to maintain and increase carbon stocks on forested properties through enrollment in carbon offset projects. Previously, Marc worked on forestry investments with The Lyme Timber Company and GreenWood Resources. He has served on the boards of the Willamette Partnership, The Climate Trust, and Ecologic Development Fund. Marc holds Master’s degrees in Forestry and in Business Administration from Yale. He lives with his wife, Erica, and young family on Reservoir Road.

Russell Muirhead – Russ is the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics at Dartmouth College and is the author of A Lot of People Are Saying, a book about conspiratorial thinking in American politics. He is also serves on the Hanover-Lyme delegation in the NH House of Representatives, where he sits on the Election Law Committee. An active hiker, Nordic skier, and cyclist, Russ lives with his wife, Antonia, on Lyme Road.
Hikes of the Month
Needing to escape the holiday prep and get some fresh air? Don’t forget our Hanover Hikes of the Month – offering you a safe self-guided breather outdoors. For December, try Behemoths of Balch Hill (an easy, half-hour loop – a perfect trip for visiting family) or Fullington Farm and Old Highway 38 (do part or all).
Hanover Conservancy’s 60th Anniversary Celebration
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!
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
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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 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!
2020 marks the 50th 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.
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