Select Board hears from proponents of Dan Hole Watershed Trust’s offer to fund and gift to the town a planning study rejected by voters last year, as well as those who don’t want the study to be done no matter who pays for it. Board agrees to decide what to do at the next meeting. Article includes a link to the meeting video.
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Country Ecology: Bobcats
The bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas as well as suburban backyards, forest edges, and swampy environments. It remains in some of its original range, but local populations are vulnerable to our many roads and also extirpation by coyotes and domestic animals. Bobcat sightings have become frequent in the Ossipee Lake area, making it timely to reprint this Country Ecology article.
Court Halts Work on Campground Expansion
A Superior Court judge has ordered that work on the Peninsula and other expansion construction must stop while Freedom’s lawsuit against Ossipee is considered. Meanwhile, the state agency overseeing compliance with FEMA regulations is looking at the situation.
Lake Auld Lang Syne, 2016
In some years, news on the lake is dominated by a single story. Such was the case in 2016.
Country Ecology: “Ruddy Duck”
If the ruddy duck were school bus yellow, its posture in water would remind you of a rubber bathtub toy. This is a “prairie pothole” duck, and an odd duck in itself, in terms of breeding plumage and behavior. New Hampshire bird watchers are seeing an increasing number of these ducks on state lakes.