NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO • February 23, 2021
A national conservation group has set up an $18 million fund to conserve forest in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, among other states, as a way to fight climate change. That money will go toward providing grants to local conservation projects in the Upper Valley, Monadnock Region and the northern part of the state, which are all part of the Northern Appalachians, a focus area of the Open Space Institute’s Appalachian Landscapes Protection Fund. The group seeks to conserve 50,000 acres along the spine of the Appalachian Mountains, which contain the world’s largest broadleaf forest.