New England Grassroots Environment Fund

Group Resources

Natural Resources Inventory (NRI) User Guide
2009 Winter Newsletter: The Watershed News
Ossipee Watershed Recharge Map
Ossipee Watershed Protected Lands Map
Ossipee Area Local Town Statistics

Group Details

Since 1997, the Green Mountain Conservation Group has dedicated its efforts to natural resource conservation in the Ossipee Watershed. Through education, research, and advocacy, and land conservation, GMCG strives to create an awareness and appreciation of our watershed’s natural resources and encourage a commitment to protect them. The group’s guiding principle is to present objective information in a non-confrontational format enabling the public to make informed natural resource decisions.

The group’s successes include receiving the 2006 Environmental Merit Award from the US EPA; preventing toxic sludge from being spread on a sensative part of the aquifer; stopping a large waste facility from being built over a primary recharge area of the aquifer; establishing a watershed-wide long-term water quality monitoring program (now in its 8th year); purchasing 3,500 acres of land with Friends of Trout Pond and the Trust for Public Land to create a town forest for the town of Freedom, NH; providing 6 towns with professional planning assistance to audit town master plans; and completing the Ossipee Watershed Natural Resource Guidebook for towns.

The group, located in Effingham (NH) received its latest NEGEF in June of 2008 to support a graduate student from the University of Vermont’s Field Naturalist and Ecological Planning program for: creating an inventory and map of potential contamination sources; conducting best management practices survey; and preparing a report for towns on the greatest threats to the Ossipee Aquifer.