Land Preservation

Chamberlain Springs, situated on Sunny Slope Farm in Alton, NH, is at the heart of a plan to significantly increase the wildlife acreage in this area of New Hampshire.

It is our goal to benefit all the inhabitants (two-legged, four-legged, winged, finned and leafed) of this beautiful region of New Hampshire. It is our intention, within two years of the beginning of production, to put 265 acres of the 282.5 acres of Sunny Slope Farm into conservation easement. It is our trust that several of our immediate abutters will likewise be putting their properties into a similar easement.

As we have pursued our large groundwater extraction permit, we have continued in discussions  with our local neighbors and the Alton Conservation Commission regarding a plan for a Conservation Easement. Bounded by New Hampshire Fish & Game on the east, the Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF) to the north, and several other  privately-owned large acreage properties, if we are successful this plan will create, in effect, a 3000 acre wildlife corridor.

Jeff Littleton, an Ecological Scientist, and owner of Moosewood Ecological Services, has been conducting a Natural Resources Inventory since the inception of Phase Two of the project.

Mr. Littleton is a forest and wetlands ecologist, having more than 12 years of experience in ecological and biological field studies and environmental education. He specializes in Natural Resource/Biological Inventory and Monitoring, Ecological Research and Management, Habitat Assessments, Conservation Planning, and Education. 

He has testified at several public hearings that Sunny Slope Farm is the keystone in what would be the equivalent of a 3000-acre wildlife corridor if Chamberlain Springs and its neighbors are successful in their intentions to place their land in conservation. He has also testified that protecting this wildlife corridor would have Northeast regional impact.