In 2008 the Green Mountain Conservation Group received funding to support a graduate student from the University of Vermont to assist the community in establishing a drinking water steering committee for the protection of the Ossipee Aquifer. This was done through a series of educational workshops and training sessions, an inventory and mapping of potential contamination sources, conducting best management practices surveys, and preparing a report for towns on greatest threats to the Ossipee Aquifer.
Green Mountain Conservation Group
Our Purpose
to promote an awareness and appreciation of the Ossipee watershed's natural resources and encourage a commitment to protect them through education, research, advocacy and land conservation. Since 1997, the Green Mountain Conservation Group, a non-profit charitable organization has dedicated its efforts to natural resource conservation. Our guiding principle is to present objective information in a non-confrontational format enabling the public to make informed natural resource decisions.
Summary of Projects
The Green Mountain Conservation Group received a grant in 2005 to hire a summer intern to assist in its water quality monitoring program. It began its testing earlier that season to conduct more storm event sampling. It also added a deep water testing program on Ossipee Lake.
The group received a grant in 2004 to assist in a board development and training program that focused on defining board and staff roles, assessing leadership and communication styles, and thinking strategically to plan future goals and projects. This was done in preparation for four of the original board members to go off the board in 2005 (term limit).
In 2003 the Green Mountain Conservation Group received funding to hire two summer interns to assist in water quality monitoring program to help determine the source of high calcium levels.
In the year 2000 the group received funding to further its effort through education and non-confrontational advocacy to promote an awareness and appreciation of the important natural resources in the Ossipee Watershed and encourage a commitment to protect them. It expanded its offerings by providing monthly programs, producing a quarterly newsletter, and providing two symposia a year.
In 1999 the Green Mountain Conservation Group received a grant to broaden the scope of the group as an active organization in the Ossipee Watershed and continue to be a resource to the towns of Effingham, Freedom, Madison, Ossipee, Sandwich and Tamworth
In 1998 the group received funding to establish itself as a conservation group in the Ossipee Watershed.