Ossipee Selectmen don't like Green Mountain Conservation Group and don't think much of their planning survey either, even if the town's own conservation commission leads the effort. Issue may be proposed directly to voters at Town Meeting.
Kayakers on Broad Bay on Christmas Day, then cold temps and snow. Winter is finally settling in on the lake.
"No" is the Select Board's answer to a request to pay $6,000 toward a Green Mountain Conservation Group research study to give town planners data to help manage growth and protect the area's water supply. Chairman Rick Morgan says he will "never work with" GMCG, citing that group's support of DRED's decision to deny the town's request to build a public beach in environmentally sensitive state-owned Ossipee Lake Natural Area more than a decade ago.
Thanks to the State Dam Bureau and Ossipee Dam Authority, the lake level continues to be predictable and according to plan.
The New Hampshire Lakes Association plans to promote a bill that will require boaters to clean and drain their vessel and trailer before entering a state lake and again when leaving it. The group believes the law can help limit the spread of variable milfoil and keep other invasives like zebra mussels from finding their way to state waters.
"Tenders" will help keep milfoil fragments from flowing down the Ossipee River when professional divers remove an infestation in Berry Bay.
Reduction of enforcement cited as a potential element in this season's wave of trespassing and vandalism at Ossipee Lake's rare nature preserve.
Rare plants may have been lost as Short Sands is trashed for the second time this summer.
Ossipee Lake Alliance will present Chris Schadler, the representative for Project Coyote in New Hampshire and Vermont, as part of the Freedom Old Home Week activities. Ms. Schadler, a wild canine ecologist, will present “The Eastern Coyote” at Freedom Town Hall on Elm Street in the center of Freedom at 6:30 p.m., Monday, August 3rd. The event is free and open to the public.
At a June 6th community meeting, Green Mountain Conservation Group will report on the first phase of its Ossipee Watershed Management Plan and discuss how it will proceed with phase two, which will study the Ossipee Lake system this year and next.
Freedom's Aquatic Invasive Species Committee is sponsoring an informative program on Saturday May 30. Amy Smagula, Limnologist and Exotic Species Program Coordinator for the N.H. Department of Environmental Services, will lead the discussion about milfoil and other invasive weeds.
GMCG will sponsor a discussion of recent research about long-term water quality trends gleaned from the study of lake sediments and water monitoring.
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