Conservation Commission Meeting

SUTTON CONSERVATION COMMISSION

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 @ 6:30 PM

Pillsbury Memorial Hall

Review minutes of February 12, 2025.

Financial Report

Trail Maintenance and Development

— Update on the KHR donation system

— Update on KHR Penacook Path culvert rebuild/replacement

— Status of snowmobile signage

Wetlands Review

– Copy of a Wetlands Permit by Notification from NHDES for Blaisdell Lake Protective Association for T/L# 02-704-486, to add beach sand to a legally existing beach.

– Copy of a Wetlands Permit by Notification from NHDES for Miller Trust for T/L# 09-320-445, replacing an existing stone ford with an 18 inch HDPE culvert for a new, single lot residential driveway.

Review of Intents to Cut and Logging Issues

– Timber Trespass in Lefferts Natural Area

New Business

— Nuisance trees in Town’s ROW in the Town Forest, Wadleigh Hill and Corporation Hill Rds.

— Kearsarge Climate Action heat pump question for town of Sutton

Old Business

— Update on Stockwell property donation and Wright conservation easement

– Info for Hazard Mitigation Plan

– Conservation Commission re-appointments

Publicity

— NH Saves workshop

Property Report

Correspondence

– Email from Town Admin regarding re-appointments to SCC.

– Email exchange with Nancy Heckel regarding serving on SCC.

— Email from NHACC announcing $750K in funding from the NH Dept of Agriculture for agricultural land preservation grants.

— Email from NHACC with notice of Lunch & Learn webinar series with talks on clean energy and on the NHDES update of the NH Climate Action Plan.

— Email from NHACC with notice of webinar by NH Food Network on Providing Housing & Protecting Land across NH. 4/4 at noon.

— February eNews from NHACC with info about NRIs and story maps and links to examples from other concoms, training sessions, and grant opportunities.

– Lakeside, quarterly publication of NH Lakes, winter 2025 issue.

– Chatter, magazine of the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust, winter 2025 issue.

– NH Woods & Wildlife upcoming workshops

Next Meeting: Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at 6:30 PM, at Sutton Town Hall