Conserved Farmlands is the Focus
of New Harris Center Exhibition
July 27, 2010 - Knowing how important farmlands are to the quality of life in the Monadnock Region, a group of five area artists have dedicated a new exhibition to these beautiful and familiar landscapes. What’s more remarkable about these particular farmland paintings – all of the places depicted are protected, conserved for future generations to enjoy. “Conserved Farmlands: Monadnock Barnyards Revisited” will be on display through September 22 at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock.
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Harrisville's Historic Seaver Farm to be Protected
June 4, 2010 - The Harris Center for Conservation Education announced today that it will soon be able to purchase a conservation easement on the historic Seaver Farm in Harrisville. The 33-acre farm is located between Breed Road and Seaver Road near the Silver Lake boat launch area and has substantial water frontage on Silver Lake and Seaver Reservoir.
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Harris Center Protects Historic
Camp Marienfeld in Harrisville and Nelson
Feb. 17, 2010 - In one of four recent land-protection projects, the Harris Center for Conservation Education has protected nearly 200 acres on the western shore of Silver Lake in Harrisville and Nelson. The project is made possible by generous funding from the Silver Lake Land Trust that enabled the Harris Center to purchase a conservation easement from the landowner, Buckingham Browne & Nichols (BB&N), a private school based in Cambridge, Mass. BB&N has used the camp each fall since 1975 to provide incoming ninth-graders with outdoor education and team-building, a 12-day experience known as the school’s “bivouac.”
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Harris Center Elects New Officers
November 25, 2009 - The board of trustees of the Harris Center for Conservation Education has elected new officers and welcomes the addition of another to the board. The board has elected Ted Leach of Hancock as its chair, with David Lesser of Keene as vice-chair, Paul Faber of Hancock as treasurer, and Alison Rossiter of Hancock as secretary. As board chair, Leach succeeds Hunt Dowse of Hancock, who remains on the Harris Center board.
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Nelson’s Ian Frederick is on the Trail as an Eagle Scout
November 20, 2009 – The trails and grounds at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock are a bit more inviting and comfortable, thanks to the hard work of Ian Frederick. The 17-year-old Nelson resident has recently completed an ambitious trails-improvement project towards earning his Eagle Scout badge.
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