Recent News

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released a new three-year conservation strategy to help restore declining young forest habitat in the Northeast, part of an ongoing effort to help the region’s only native rabbit and more than 60 other kinds of wildlife.

By David Brooks, Concord, N.H., Monitor

Protecting an endangered turtle, an endangered rabbit and a lot of imperiled wetlands – not to mention drinking water – is the goal of a new $1.6 million federal award to protect areas in Southeastern New Hampshire, including the Merrimack River watershed, as part of a federal program.

By Dave Chandra and John Sacco, Op-Ed for the New Jersey Record

Much has been said and written about the science-based ecological forest management within the Sparta Mountain Wildlife Management Area.

Unfortunately, much of what people have heard or read is wrong, creating unwarranted concern among well-intentioned people who value our forests, like we do here at the Department of Environmental Protection.

By Mike Patrick, Associated Press, Monday, May 30, 2016

WATERBURY, Conn. - They cut through the state’s forests and countryside like ski slopes, dotted from one end to the other with vast, 80-foot towers of steel that help provide electricity to thousands of utility customers.

But Eversource’s rights of way, as they’re called, have come to provide another critical resource, environmentalists say: Little ecosystems have formed in the grassy, shrubby areas beneath those towers, where rare species of birds, insects, mammals and plants thrive.