Mahoosuc Land Trust of Bethel, the Shelburne Trails Club of Shelburne, New Hampshire, and national partner, The Conservation Fund, will host a celebration of a newly completed three-mile hiking trail network on Sunday, Nov. 5, on the Shelburne Riverlands State Line Forest. Coffee and pastries will be offered at 10 a.m. at the Shelburne, N.H. […]
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REGION Two more grants from New Hampshire-based programs helped the Mahoosuc Land Trust recently complete its purchase of the 861-acre Shelburne Riverlands from Bayroot LLC. MLT officially closed on the land on April 2.
The MLT received a $125,000 grant from the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) and a $761,668 grant from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) Program. In the press release, it stated that MLT got additional help from several individuals and businesses, on top of a $200,000 grant they got from the Randolph Area Conservation Opportunity Fund last fall. Shelburne, NH residents also chipped in a land donation, totaling the number of acres to 880.
Shelburne Riverlands conservation land acquired with community, state support (
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April 08, 2021SHELBURNE Two State of New Hampshire programs have made Mahoosuc Land Trust s (MLT) conservation of the 861-acre Shelburne Riverlands a reality. A $125,000 grant from the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) and a $761,668 grant from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) Program allowed the trust to close today on the purchase from Bayroot, LLC. Key additional support came from dozens of individuals, businesses including Brookfield Renewables, and a major grant from the Randolph Area Conservation Opportunity Fund. The project also inspired a land donation by Shelburne residents, increasing the total project acreage protected to 880 acres.
SHELBURNE â An ambitious program announced by the non-profit Mahoosuc Land Trust less than a year ago to permanently conserve nine mainland parcels and 30 islands along an 8.7-mile stretch of the Androscoggin River has become a reality.
The $780,000 property purchase was finalized Friday and the deeds registered in the Coos County Courthouse in Lancaster.
The closing of the 861-acre Shelburne Riverlands project was handled by Andrew Dean, a partner at Cooper Cargill Chant P.A. of North Conway and Berlin.
Bayroot LLC sold the acreage being managed by Wagner Timber Management of Lyme. The parcels were previously owned by Mead/Westvaco Corp.