• PLC Acquires 48 Acres in New Boston

    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

  • Great Meadow Land Purchase Completed

    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,

  • PLC and Town Protect Temple’s Fiske Hill

    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

  • Explore Vernal Pools with Dr. Rick Van de Poll (EVENT FULL)

    On Saturday April 26th one of New Hampshire’s foremost wetlands scientists and educators will lead a guided walk to a complex of vernal (spring) pools on the Follansbee property in New Boston.  PLC is currently working to purchase the 295-acre forest, which in addition to its many vernal pools includes the remaining unprotected shoreline of

  • New Project to Protect New Boston’s Great Meadow

    PLC is working to protect an undeveloped 250-acre property that would complete the protection of New Boston’s Great Meadow, a 160-acre open water wetland that has been a preservation priority for PLC and the town since the 1980s.