Projects funded by Moose Plates!

Sugar Hill Meetinghouse Tower Restoration

Repairing Publicly Owned Historic Resources & Artifacts

To get back into good shape, the 1830 Sugar Hill Meetinghouse in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire needed vinyl siding removed and repairs made to the clapboards underneath; it also needed painting and repairs to its steeple and clock. An NH Division of Historical Resources NH Moose Plate grant offered big help to get these important jobs done.

Peregrine Falcon

Protecting New Hampshire’s Vulnerable Wildlife

Did you know that the peregrine falcon and American kestrel, two raptors, are species of concern in New Hampshire? The NH Fish and Game’s Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program is working to increase the number of both these and other threatened migratory birds through research and conservation efforts supported by funds generated by the Moose Plate Program.

Little Big Forest

The Town of Stoddard Protects the Scenic Little Big Forest

The Town of Stoddard, with support from a Moose Plate Grant awarded by the NH State Conservation Committee, purchased the 40-acre Little Big Forest to protect this pristine,unmanaged forest with 4,000 feet of undeveloped shoreline on Highland Lake. Conservation efforts here protect water quality and the important wildlife habitat on either side of the lake, all while providing the community with an ideal environment for outdoor-based research and passive recreational use.

Pollinator Habitat Initiative Project

To counter the decline of pollinator habitat, 20 pollinator habitat sites were installed to demonstrate innovative approaches to converting sites, landowner workshops were held, and pollinator habitats on Cheshire County farms were inventoried to better understand the impacts of native pollinators.

The greater-fringed gentian

Monitoring & Protecting Rare Plants Across New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau (NHB) surveys state-threatened plants, monitoring their health to provide recommendations for protecting rare species across the state. Recently, the NHB team visited Mt. Sunapee Park to survey for the greater fringed-gentian (Gentianopsis crinite), recording fluctuations in the appearance of this biennial plant.

Sawyer Brook Headwaters in Grantham, NH

Protecting Natural, Historic, & Recreational Resources In Grantham, NH

With support from a Moose Plate Grant awarded by the Land & Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP), the Sawyer Brook Headwaters project is Ausbon Sargent’s first conserved property in Grantham, NH! Its purchase by Ausbon Sargent with funding support from LCHIP made way for the conservation of the 384.5-acre property and the diverse range of natural, historic, and recreational resources found within it.

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Beyond Brown Paper Interactive Website/Virtual Exhibition, Plymouth, NH

In 2007 Plymouth State University was awarded a $17,000 grant for the Beyond Brown Paper interactive website / virtual exhibition.

Funded by a Cultural Conservation Grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, 250 of the 11,000 photographs were scanned with preservation quality resolution. A computer workstation was purchased and set up in Berlin which provided internet access to these images and the capacity for users to provide information on the images either by phone or computer. The Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire worked as a partner in making connections with Berlin-area community organizations and volunteers and in linking this project to a variety of local cultural initiatives.

The Brown Company Photographic Collection documents much of the history of the Brown Company of Berlin, New Hampshire from the late nineteenth century through the mid-1960s. Among the subjects depicted are the varieties of work activity from the felling of trees to the final manufacture of pulp and paper in Berlin and Gorham. Also shown are engineering projects, the construction of mills and the installation of new equipment and machinery.

A significant portion of the collection chronicles the social, cultural, and recreational lives of the workers, their families and the place of these people in the life of Berlin itself.