We hope you’ll join us for another exciting season of events out on the land and around town. Our 2025 spring trips card will be making its way to member households shortly (join or renew today!), and you can find the full listing of events on our online calendar. You won’t want to miss fun outings to Balch Hill, Mayor-Niles Forest, the Dartmouth Organic Farm, and more.
And as always, all our events are free and open to the public—all are welcome!
Stay tuned throughout the spring months for pop-up volunteer events and other opportunities to come together and celebrate Hanover’s special places.
Mary Brown, Hanover Conservancy Board Member since December 2019, has been elected to the role of Vice-President of the Board. Mary is a court-appointed guardian for children in state custody. She has worked in admissions at Bates College, Geisel School of Medicine and the Tuck School of Business, and in alumni relations at Harvard Business School. Mary is a longtime board member of The Family Place and served as chair of its board. Brown has been a member of HC’s community engagement committee since 2016. An active outdoorswoman, Mary is an officer of the Dartmouth Class of 1978. She and her husband, Scott, live near the Connecticut River and are the parents of four grown children.
Earth Day reminds us to be grateful for Susan Harper, a dedicated volunteer and Secretary of our Board of Directors from 2003-2008, who recently passed away. She really made things happen in Hanover, especially at the 
Pine Park is Hanover’s first natural area permanently preserved as a park and today functions as the town’s “central park” for the enjoyment of walkers, joggers, skiers and many others. The park is owned by the Pine Park Association, a voluntary nonprofit that dates back to 1900, when a group of 17 local residents sought to prevent the Diamond Match Company from harvesting trees along the riverbank just north of the Ledyard Bridge.