The Great Bay Partnership awards $59,075 for land transaction costs to eight conservation projects

The Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership announced the Spring 2021 recipients of Land Protection Transaction Grant Program grant awards. A total of $59,075 in grant funds will support conservation work on 562 acres of land. The eight conservation projects provide over $86,000 in matching funds.

The Land Protection Transaction Grant Program assists land trusts, conservation organizations and municipal governments in Conservation Project Grant the coastal watershed of New Hampshire and Maine with land protection transaction costs including appraisal, land survey, legal, title, recording fees, easement baseline documentation and environmental assessments. The eligible properties are permanently protected through donation or acquisition of land and conservation easements.

The Spring 2021 grant awards include conservation properties representing a diversity of natural resources including woodlands, agricultural lands and open fields, important wildlife habitats and water resources.

Land Protection Transaction Grant Recipients:

  • Bear Paw Regional Greenways, $7,100, Conservation Project Grant, Town of Deerfield, NH
  • Town of Fremont, $2,500 Appraisal Grant, Town of Fremont, NH
  • Great Works Regional Land Trust, $3,000, Appraisal Grant, Town of South Berwick, ME
  • Moose Mountain Regional Greenways, $20,000, Conservation Project Grant, Town of Milton, NH
  • City of Portsmouth, $2,775, Appraisal Grant, Town of Madbury, NH
  • Southeast Land Trust of NH, $3,500 Appraisal Grant, Town of Hampton Falls, NH
  • Southeast Land Trust of NH, $3,500 Appraisal Grant, Town of Durham, NH
  • Southeast Land Trust of NH, $16,700 Conservation Project Grant, Town of Rye, NH


The Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership is a collaboration of conservation organizations in the coastal region that promotes landscape-scale land conservation and stewardship. Funding for the Land Protection Transaction Grant program is

The Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership is a collaboration of conservation organizations in the coastal region that promotes landscape-scale land conservation and stewardship. Funding for the Land Protection Transaction Grant program is provided by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. The Nature Conservancy serves as the fiscal agent for the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership grant
program.

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