Land Conservation

July 2026 – The Piscataquog Land Conservancy has completed our purchase of 141 acres along the Massachusetts border in Mason as a new forest preserve. The acquisition permanently protects top-ranked wildlife habitat and recreational access to the adjacent 3,000-acre Townsend State Forest in Massachusetts. The land was sold to PLC by Judy and Jerry Anderson,

June 2026 – The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is excited to announce the protection of three forested parcels totaling one hundred and twenty-three acres in in the northwest corner of New Boston and adjacent areas in Weare and Francestown.  The property links existing conservation properties around Dennison Pond to extensive protected areas to the east around

February 2026 – The Piscataquog Land Conservancy has completed the first phase of our Townes land conservation project in New Boston.  On January 30th, we took ownership of a 48-acre parcel from the Townes Family Trust located off the 2nd NH Turnpike and immediately next to PLC’s Rice and Proctor Preserves.  The forested property features a

January 2026 – The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is excited to announce our first new conservation project of 2026. Last week PLC signed a donation agreement with the owner of three forested parcels totaling one hundred and twenty-three acres in in the northwest corner of New Boston and adjacent areas in Weare and Francestown. Once protected,

December, 2025 – PLC has been awarded a $285,000 grant from the state’s Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) for our purchase of 141 acres along the Massachusetts border in Mason. The grant award was one of thirty-one announced earlier this week that will provide a total of $3.5 million to support land conservation

May 2025 – PLC’s parade of project closings continued in May with the completion of the “Seepack” conservation easement in Lyndeborough.  We had worked for more than a year with town native Burton Reynolds (pictured above) to place a conservation easement on about twenty-six acres of his property that includes a scenic hayfield behind Lyndeborough’s

July 2025 – After decades of effort by many people, the protection of New Boston’s Great Meadow is complete.   On June 30th PLC purchased the final unprotected property bordering the wetland — a 295-acre parcel owned by the estate of Alice Follansbee.  PLC was first approached by the Follansbee heirs in the summer of 2023,

April 2025 – The Piscataquog Land Conservancy and the Temple Conservation Commission have completed the purchase of a conservation easement on a two-hundred-acre property that includes the top of Fiske Hill on the town’s border with Wilton. The forested property is adjacent to over 1,800 acres of existing conservation land, contains prime wildlife habitat, and

December 2024 – PLC is pleased to announce that we have completed our purchase of a 27-acre parcel that further expands our Rose Mountain Preserve in Lyndeborough.  The lot (outlined in red on map) is entirely forested and contains a segment of the main trail connecting Pinnacle and Rose Mountain.  Thanks to the many local

September 2024 – PLC is collaborating with private landowners and the Town of Temple to purchase a conservation easement on a 200-acre parcel that encompasses most of Fiske Hill on the town’s border with Wilton.  The property is adjacent to over 1,800 acres of existing conservation land, contains prime wildlife habitat, and has frontage on