Working with Communities

Moose Mountains Regional Greenways services its member communities by conserving land, conducting research, providing technical services and advice to town land use boards, and freely distributing information through workshops and reports. Since 1998 we have been helping communities to identify their most special natural resources. We start by working with community leaders to identify the natural resource features that are most unique to the community – like important drinking water resources, wildlife habitat areas, working farms and forests, and recreational areas.

Read more about some of our recent community contributions in the MMRG in Action section.

Working with Individuals

“I am pleased with MMRG’s increasing presence in the towns that are receiving the benefits of the organization’s efforts. It is my hope that with MMRG’s expanding role in educating residents as to the benefits of open space conservation, towns will embrace the goals of a coordinate land conservation program for the region.” – Ron Gehl, New Durham, NH resident and town selectman

Our job is to help individual landowners find the best way to preserve their land in a natural state. We work with individuals and land stewardship organizations to create land preservation agreements designed to retain a healthy natural environment for people, birds, fish, mammals and other wildlife.

The first step to a successful land preservation agreement is discovering the goals of the individuals who own the land: Will they continue to own and live on the property? Do they want to continue to farm the land? Do they want to save a place for wildlife? Do they want future generations to explore and enjoy? Do they want to conserve a majority of the land, but reserve a portion near the road for future development? Moose Mountains staff and volunteers work closely with landowners to identify the best solution to meet each individual’s unique conservation goals.

“Keep up the great work! Thank goodness for groups like MMRG.” – Sherry Bryant, Brookfield, NH resident and Moose Mountains Regional Greenways member

MMRG works only on voluntary land protection projects. This means that the lands on which we concentrate our efforts are either for sale, or the owners came to us asking for help to conserve their land for future generations. Families that want to place conservation easements on their land while retaining full use and ownership of it are our most important beneficiaries. Some want to realize the many tax advantages that are available when they place lands into conservation. Moose Mountains Regional Greenways can help!