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Time to step up for conservation?

by: Lucy Edwards

Mon Jun 14, 2010 at 05:47:52 AM EDT
( - promoted by Dean Barker)

The Monitor is now calling for land conservation.  I hope it it not too late!

Forests are being fragmented by roads and lost to development. To save enough to preserve what all residents and visitors love will take what in the short run seems like a sacrifice. In the long run, for the sake of the planet, it is a necessity.
Lucy Edwards :: Time to step up for conservation?
As soon as the economy returns to health, development pressure will swell and more land will be cleared. At the moment, land is cheap and climate change has made the need to preserve it stronger than ever.

The last year or so have been very busy for the land trust for our area.  I serve on the board of BearPaw Regional Greenways and we certainly will have a more difficult time finding the funding to assist towns and landowners to put easements on their land as LCHIP is, again, stripped of funding to balance the budget.  We rob our future because we will not deal with the present responsibly.  And we call that fiscally conservative!

The American Indians who peopled this land were known, among other names, as Abenaki, the dawn people. Now, as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico illustrates, we must all be dawn people. We are in the dawn of an era where alternative sources of energy will have to replace fossil fuels and forests and fields will have to be protected because if that doesn't happen, the New England coming generations experience will be a much-diminished place.
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Time to step up for conservation? | 6 comments
I feel blessed every day (4.00 / 1)
to live in the Monadnock region of NH where land conservation has been taken seriously for decades. There are thousands of acres preserved in my town alone, and still more being preserved each year.

Republicans believe government is bad - then they get into office and prove it.
wanna start a commune ? n/t (0.00 / 0)


for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops
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Nah, been there, done that. (4.00 / 1)
I'm way too cranky for communal life.

Republicans believe government is bad - then they get into office and prove it.
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take yer hands off my granola!!! n/t (4.00 / 1)


for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops
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The sad fate of LCHIP (0.00 / 0)
The sad fate of LCHIP and other "dedicated" environmental funds is that they have become miltch cows, to be milked at the convenience of the legislature... If re-elected, I will try to organize a bloc of representatives, from both parties, to break the NH House of this intellectually dishonest, raiding activity!

Steven Lindsey
State rep
Keene, NH

Farmland (0.00 / 0)
should be a priority for conservation.  Those rolling fields draw the eye of the land developer, so easy to build on, but that land is the very best for livestock, an underdeveloped resource in NH, and fruit and vegetables which grow well here.  I would feel more food secure if we were growing more closer to home, our food averages a trip of 1500 miles to get to us, and when you consider that average includes local apples or strawberries, for example, some of it is coming a long way.  Supply trains can be interrupted, etc.  
And local food tastes better, gets processed and sold to us at the peak of its flavor and nutrition, and provides another piece of the economic development picture.  We should be doing all we can to foster this win-win piece of the puzzle.  Did you know that young people are going to UNH in increasing numbers to become farmers, not agribusiness scientists, these days?  They really want to farm.  John Carroll at UNH is working on many of these issues.
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