Town of Sutton Selectmen Meeting Minutes

TOWN OF SUTTON

Sutton Conservation Commission

Agenda

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Please note that the meeting is in-person and all visitors must wear masks.

Appointments: 7:00 PM Aaron Flewelling, president of the Sutton Ridgerunners Snowmobile Club.

  • Review minutes of February 9, 2022.

 

  • Financial Report

— Deposit of check from Ridgerunners Snowmobile Club

 

  • Trail Maintenance and Development

— Trail Advisory Committee Report

> Draft KHR hiking map review

> KHR donation syste

> ORFS hike at Webb/Crowell Forest

 

  • Review of Wetland Applications and Issues

 

  • Review of Intents to Cut and Logging Issues

NH Public Golf Course, Shaker Rd (T/L# 7-455-213), North Rd (T/L#s 7-660-060, 7-698-078), and Kearsarge Valley Rd (T/L# 7-490-070), for a total of 200 acres out of 300.

 

  • New Business

— Discuss designating Route 114 along Russell Pond and Blaisdell Lake as a Low Salt Area.

— Review Planning Board’s Town Master Plan draft proposal

— Review SCC members service term dates

— Review Sutton Annual Report

 

  • Old Business

— Review of Leo Maslan’s KHR Forest Management Plan

— Logging access routes update

— Horse Beach parking plan update

 

  • Property Committee Report

— Current demand for land

— Sources of Funds for land acquisition

 

  • Correspondence
  • — Consent form from Eversource regarding tree pruning on SCC properties.

— NHACC February eNews with news about efforts by other ConComs, training opportunities, grant info, information about designating prime wetlands, native bee research in NH peatlands, and more.

— Email from NHACC with Legislative Update for 2022.

— Email from the Colby-Sawyer College Community Based class, reporting on the status of their landscaping and community outreach project.

Conservation News, newsletter of the Merrimack County Conservation District, with annual plant sale order form, article about brook trout habitat restoration, and more

Lakeside, winter 2022 issue of the NH Lakes quarterly publication, with article about NH legislation introduced to study impacts of cyanobacterial blooms, and more.

 

  • Next Meeting: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 at 6:30 PM.