The Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership announced the Spring 2024 recipients of Stewardship Grant Program awards. Seven grant recipients received a total of $42,205 in grant funds to support stewardship projects on over 1,320 acres of conservation land in the Great Bay Watershed. Grant recipients provided over $29,700 in matching funds.
The Stewardship Grant Program assists with stewardship costs for permanently protected conservation lands in the Great Bay Watershed of New Hampshire. Stewardship activities supported by this grant program include habitat management, existing trail maintenance, property and project planning, and natural resource inventory projects. Eligible applicants include the fee owner or conservation easement
holder of an eligible conservation property, including land trusts, municipalities and units of governments.
The Spring 2024 grant recipients include:
- Bear-Paw Regional Greenways, $10,000, Habitat Management, Deerfield, NH
- Town of Durham, $5,450, Trail Maintenance, Durham, NH
- Moose Mountains Regional Greenways, $7,125, Habitat Management, Milton, NH
- Town of Newmarket, $3,520, Trail Maintenance, Newmarket, NH
- City of Portsmouth, $10,000, Habitat Management, Portsmouth, NH
- Southeast Land Trust of NH, $4,000, Trail Maintenance, Epping, NH
- The Nature Conservancy, $2,110, Trail Maintenance, Durham and Newmarket, NH
The Stewardship Grant Program will have a grant round in the Fall of 2024. See the Great Bay Partnership website for additional details.
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 Stewardship Grant program is provided by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Great Bay 2030 Initiative. The Nature Conservancy serves as the fiscal agent for the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership grant program.
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