Bear Paw Regional Greenways

Bear-Paw Regional Greenways is a land trust established by resident volunteers concerned with protecting open space lands. Bear-Paw has proposed a greenway that connects private or public lands with large areas of conservation land in a seven-town region including: Candia, Deerfield, Epsom, Northwood, Nottingham, Raymond, and Strafford. This network of voluntarily protected lands will provide important wildlife habitat and protect rivers, wetlands and recreational opportunities.

Annual Meeting to be held February 10th Bear-Paw Regional Greenways' Annual Meeting celebrating its 12th year and the addition of 220 acres to its list of lands protected will be held on February 10th at Coe-Brown Academy. Tom Wessels will be discussing his latest book, "The Myth of Progress" and we will take an afternoon walk at the site of an ongoing conservation project in Strafford. Please plan to join us! More...

Steve Cruikshank Memorial Easement - As Steve and Irene Cruikshank grew up in coastal Rockingham County, they saw the disappearance of woodlots separating neighborhoods, fields for back-lot baseball, and other wild and semi-wild places. So when Steve and Irene bought their land in Deerfield in 1989, they always planned to place it under permanent protection. Steve was a carpenter and Irene assisted as they built their fine handmade post and beam house, brick hearth for the wood stove, and solar disc and batteries for electricity. More...



	2007 Annual Meeting Saturday, February 10 \| 9am - 4pm Please plan to join us... Tom Wessels will be there to talk about his newest book, "The Myth of Progress." The New Tax Incentives of Conservation Easements Wednesday, January 31 \| 7pm - 9pm The Candia Conservation Commission and Bear-Paw will host a workshop on conservation easement donations. New Federal Law Gives Better Tax Benefit for Voluntary Conservation Agreements Congress recently passed a new law that enhances the tax benefits of protecting private land for many landowners.