Critical Piece in Great Bay Conservation Puzzle Put into Place

摘要

On Friday afternoon, January 14th, you might have heard a loud "clink" coming from southeast New Hampshire—the sort of clink you hear when a stone mason drops the keystone into an arch. That "clink" was another piece of the Great Bay/Little Bay shoreline sliding into protected status. The Nature Conservancy, acting for the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership, acquired a conservation easement on 33 acres in Dover at the mouth of the Bellamy River, where it enters Little Bay. The easement was immediately assigned to the Forest Society. "We're proud to partner with the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership to conserve this critical section of the Great Bay shoreline," said Forest Society President/ Forester Jane Difley. "This area of the state has been widely recognized as an estuarine ecosystem of local, regional, and national importance."