The Nature Conservancy will conduct controlled burns for land management purposes between now and the end of October. The controlled burns will be on up to 220 acres at two locations: the Madison Town Forest off of Lead Mine Road in Madison, and the Dr. Melvin Harmon Preserve off of Route 25 in Freedom.
Year-long lobbying effort results in a $2 increase in boat registration fees to help pay for the growing cost of controlling milfoil in state waters.
In addition to the challenges of finding money to treat his lake's milfoil infestations, Association president Michael Allard says the bureaucracy of milfoil control is "insane."
Kayaker discovers the lake's 11th infestation in a cove between Barry Bay and Leavitt Bay. Freedom's Aquatic Invasive Species Committee quickly arranges for its removal as part of the summer's schedule of milfoil control.
Popular author and speaker Ben Kilham will appear at Freedom Town Hall on Monday, August 4th, at 7 p.m. Kilham is co-author of the book "Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild," which is considered a classic of its type. Signed copies of this and his new book, "Out on a Limb," will be available for purchase at this family-friendly event.
It's the unofficial "fourth source" of information for biographers--site visits to view the places where events played out. For poet E.E. Cummings biographer Susan Cheever, that meant a visit to Center Ossipee, to find the site where Cummings' father was killed in a car-train accident in 1926.
Displays this year by Camp Huckins on Broad Bay, and the Town of Ossipee on the big lake.
The Watershed Management Plan for the Ossipee Lake Lower Bays and Danforth Ponds needs input from residents and land owners. An action plan is part of the planning process and will address conservation, restoration and mitigation priorities to maintain our current high quality waters in this area. What our children and grandchildren inherit will depend on how we care for our local waters. The forum will be held on July 12 in Freedom.
There will be an Important Ossipee Watershed water quality meeting today, June 19th, at 5pm at Freedom Town Hall. For the first time, residents of Ossipee, Freedom, Effingham, Tamworth, and Madison will be able to see an assessment of our local water quality based on a full 10 years of data. Many local volunteers and scientists have been involved in this program supported in part by all of the area's towns.
The dam is wide open but the water remains high due to the heavy snow-melt. Here's what to expect next.
Winter is over. The official 2014 ice-out date for Ossipee Lake was Tuesday, April 22, at 2 pm.
HB 292 will increase the boat registration fee by $2 and generate approximately $200,000 in additional revenue to help keep invasive variable milfoil under control in infested waters. State Senator Jed Bradley, who represents the Ossipee Lake area, co-sponsored the measure in January.
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