Recently I wrote about a new section of trail in the Green Hills Preserve above North Conway. Talking to the Nature Conservancy’s Northern New Hampshire Land Manager Michael Crawford about it, he mentioned other activity going on in the Green Hills that certainly deserved looking into.
Taking core samples of mud from the bottom of vernal pools up on the Green Hills ridge? Taking tree-ring samples from old red pine there? The intention of both was to gather data about the history of fires.
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