Town of Sutton Selectmen Meeting Minutes

TOWN OF SUTTON

Sutton Conservation Commission

Agenda

Wednesday, April13, 2022

  • Review minutes of March 16, 2022.

 

  • Financial Report

 

  • Trail Maintenance and Development

— Trail Advisory Committee Report

> Draft KHR hiking map review

> Update on the KHR donation system

 

  • Review of Wetland Applications and Issues

Copy of Forest Statutory Permit-By-Notification from NHDES for NH Public Golf Course, Inc, T/L#s 7-541-036 and 7-455-213 . NHDES File #2022-00519.

 

  • Review of Intents to Cut and Logging Issues

Corrected acreage: 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 177 acres out of 233. John Whyte, logger.

Steve Lord for Granite Forest Trust, Bum Carter Rd (T/L# 2-190-373), 25 acres out of 167, Tim Wallace, forester.

 

  • New Business

— Report on Saving Special Places

 

  • Old Business

— Review of Leo Maslan’s KHR Forest Management Plan

— Logging access routes update

— Update on Low Salt Road issue

— Snowmobiles on KHR trails 1 and 2

— Horse Beach parking plan update

 

  • Property Committee Report

 

  • Correspondence

–Letter from ASLPT with attached easement monitoring reports for the town owned properties Enroth-Lefferts, KHR, Maple Leaf Natural Area, Russell Pond, William Bean Quarry, and Webb/Crowell Forest. No issues with the properties were observed, though the report on Maple Leaf noted some debris over the property line.

–Letter from ASLPT with attached easement monitoring reports for the private properties for which the Town of Sutton is the back-up easement grantee: Emerson/Clark & Brand (lots 1 and 2), Putnam, Enroth, and O’Neil.

— NHACC March eNews with news about efforts by other ConComs, training opportunities, lots of grant info, info about taking meeting minutes, and more.

–Email from NHACC announcing the 2022 Drinking Water Source Protection Conference, 5/24 in person in Pembroke, 5/25 virtually

–Email from KLPA announcing that the end of year presentation by the Colby Sawyer Environmental Class will be April 22nd, and Fred Sladen will be leading a bird walk around the lake on May 15th

–Email from NHACC with article about biodiversity from the Amherst CC in honor of Earth Day

Forest Notes, magazine of the SPNHF, Winter 2022 issue.

 

  • Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 at 6:30 PM.