Audubon Society Of New Hampshire

NH Audubon owns and manages a variety of properties that help preserve and protect the natural beauty, health, and habitat of its community. The Organization's sanctuaries protect several unique natural communities that include rare plants, birds, mammals, pollinators and other threatened natural wildlife. NH Audubon's land stewardship covers every county in New Hampshire, with habitats ranging from northern peat bogs to coastal salt marshes, and from high elevation spruce forests to Appalachian oak-hickory forests, with much more in between.For example, the Organization works to protect:- 39 separate wildlife sanctuaries, which amount to nearly 7,500 acres of protected land; - 4 properties that are maintained under a Memoranda of Understanding which dictates that, of these lands, at least 1,250 acres is to be monitored and managed for their conservation and environmental values-An additional 29 land easements across nearly 2,500 acres. In 31 of these properties, there are trail systems totaling 75 miles of maintained trails. Many sanctuaries are heavily visited for environmental education and low impact recreational uses. In particular, Pondicherry, Ponemah Bog, Massabesic, Silk Farm, Paradise Point, and Willard Pond Wildlife Sanctuaries are visited annually by more than 20,000 individuals.

NH Audubon is active in conservation science and environmental policy issues. Our conservation science work includes research, monitoring, and management of New Hampshire's wildlife, with a particular focus species of concern. While many of our projects do focus on birds, our work goes well beyond avian species. For example, recent studies performed or supported by NH Audubon have included bats, dragonflies, butterflies, and turtles. We are active in helping to implement the exciting MOTUS tracking system, with our partners in the northeast, which provides a system to monitor migration patterns for a variety of aerial wildlife, ranging from birds to bats to butterflies along with other wildlife species.We also engage a large cadre of citizen scientists in our work. Approximately 1,783 volunteers contribute over 11,600 hours annually.NH Audubon's advocacy work promotes science-based public policy at national, state, and local levels. An environmental policy and advocacy team composed of both staff and volunteers determines our positions on proposed legislation and delivers testimony at hearings. Staff members represent the organization in various state policy working groups and technical committees, and they also participate in state and regional coalitions. NH Audubon collaborates with other nonprofit organizations, state and local agencies, academic institutions, municipalities, and businesses to advance conservation causes. We respect our collaborators' perspectives while advocating the best possible environmental outcomes.