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.
The lake's ice cap is gone, and temperatures are on the rise.
The lake is above the summer level, but the plan is to take it back down in order to make repairs to the dam.
Spring is out there...somewhere.
Five amendments are on the ballot for this year's Freedom Town Meeting on Tuesday, March 10th.
We got water – lots of water. During Christmas week the weather turned warm and the rain was upon us all through Christmas Day.
We've had snow, ice, a power outage, and now some warmer weather. A big rain predicted for Wednesday could take the lake to well above the summer level.
Water is flowing out of the lake at a steady rate, per the annual drawdown.
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