Only two to three percent of land in New Hampshire is early successional habitat, open fields, grasslands, and recently cleared forest that provides important habitat for insects, birds, and mammals, and maintaining land for these habitats is an ongoing project.
On Wednesday, October 22, from 10 AM–12 PM, join Chocorua Lake Conservancy Stewardship Director Debra Marnich for a morning of camaraderie, exercise, and maintenance of early successional habitat at Charlotte C. Browne Woods on Washington Hill Road in Chocorua. We’ll be clearing saplings in the early successional habitat strip between the off-road parking area and the woods to maintain both the parking area and the habitat it sits within.
Debra Marnich. | Galen Kilbride
Bring work gloves and your favorite clippers or hand saws if you have them, water and a snack, and please wear sturdy, closed-toed shoes. We will have some tools available if needed. Be prepared for sun, bugs, and ticks just in case. Meet at the parking area at C.C. Browne Woods. Feel free to come for all or some of the morning. Please register above so that we can let you know of any changes in the schedule.
CLC Stewardship Director Debra Marnich holds a BS in Zoology and an MS in Forestry. Her major interests and professional focus areas include combining wildlife and forestry practices to manage for both sound silvicultural and optimum wildlife habitat, creating early successional and bird nesting habitat, pollinator habitat creation, promoting small diverse farms local food production/agriculture, promoting land conservation and protection, environmental education, and integrating all resources concerns to create a balanced conservation system.
Banner image: Early successional habitat along the parking area at Charlotte C. Browne Woods.