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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 three 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
pursued our large groundwater extraction permit,
we were continually 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,
conducted a Natural Resources Inventory for the entirety 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.
Please visit us at our
Water
Barn
at
118 Old
Wolfeboro Rd.
Alton
603-875-2220
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Sunny Slope Farm
is a lovely 200 year-old,
four-season family farm located on an old country road in the very heart of the
Lakes Region of NH. The big white house, big red barn and big white stable sit
at the bottom of a hayfield on 282 lovely acres that are traversed by miles of
hiking, riding and cross-country ski trails that meander through fields &
woodlands, over brooks and past a wild beaver pond.
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