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RECORD NUMBER: 585 OF 1730

Main Title Municipal Conservation Outreach and Technical Assistance. A Final Report to the New Hampshire Estuaries Project.
Author D. T. Taylor
CORP Author Center for Land Conservation Assistance, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests., Concord, NH.; New Hampshire Univ., Durham. New Hampshire Estuaries Project.
Year Published 2004
Stock Number PB2011-110238
Additional Subjects Natural resources conservation ; Land use planning ; New Hampshire ; Forests ; Case studies ; Cities ; Communities ; Estuaries ; Outreach programs ; Meetings ; Education
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NTIS  PB2011-110238 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The New Hampshire Estuaries project awarded a grant of $24,700 to the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests in May of 2002 for municipal conservation outreach and technical assistance in the area of municipal funds for permanent land conservation. SPNHF, working in close partnership with the Center for Land Conservation Assistance, conducted research into available mechanisms and funding sources for municipal conservation efforts. A publication summarizing the available options and providing information and case studies from a variety of New Hampshire towns was produced. Saving Special Places Community Funding for Land Conservation, was distributed in December of 2002, just in time to assist towns seeking new municipal funding sources at the 2003 town meeting season. SPNHF/CLCA also provided a series of educational workshops on the topic of municipal fund raising for permanent land conservation. Eight workshops were held in the New Hampshire estuaries area, and seven were presented to at statewide events. Over 400 people attended the workshops. SPNHF/CLCA also provided technical assistance to twenty-four of the communities in the estuaries area over the period of the grant. Elements of the project were publicized in a wide range of print media in both statewide and estuary-area outlets. The education and outreach effort was quite successful. The number of towns applying land use change land monies to their conservation funds increased, as did the percent of the fund applied. The towns in the estuaries area that had the advantage of the new publication just as they were going into town meeting season with bond proposals in 2003 passed their bonds at a rate of 76% for a total of $18,660,000 of new money available for conservation projects in those towns.