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A twice-yearly newsletter of information, announcements, and news about the Quincy Bog Natural Area and Pemi-Baker Land Trust
Editors: Widge Kent & Christine Perron
Editorial submissions are welcome. Please send to: Editor, Quincy Bog Notes, P.O. Box 90 , Rumney , NH 03266 or email us at BogNotes@QuincyBog.org.
The following articles are two of the many articles in the current Winter 2009 - 2010 edition of the Bog Notes. Please feel free to download this from the Archive section of this page.
Quincy Pasture Forest: An interview with John Serfass
John Serfass is a member of the Board of Directors for Rumney Eco-logical Systems. He was largely responsible for preparing a steward-ship plan for Quincy Pasture Forest . Serfass lives in Rumney and is retired from the US Forest Service. This article is the out-come of a recent interview of Serfass by the editors of Quincy Bog Notes.
Editors: Where is Quincy Pasture Forest and how is Rumney Ecological Systems involved with the property?
Serfass: Quincy Pasture Forest (QPF) is in Rumney , NH . It is located on the southern flank of Stinson Mountain with frontage on East Rumney Road. It is a rectangular plot of 92 acres and is a part of the watershed for Quincy Bog. Rumney Ecological Systems (RES), the organization responsible for the Bog, was given ownership of QPF in 2002 by The Nature Conservancy. (TNC retains a conservation easement on the property.) The property was donated to TNC by the previous owner.
Editors: Why was a stewardship plan needed for this property and why is it important to have a plan? Is the plan available to the public?
Serfass: The stewardship plan developed by RES is a requirement of the easement held by TNC. It has been submitted to TNC and we (RES) are awaiting their review and comment. The plan is a guide for how the property will be managed over time, and is in line with the existing mission of RES. It is an agreement, of sorts, between the two organizations. Once the plan has been agreed upon, RES will make the plan available on its website. Finish reading this article and others by downloading Bog Notes.
2009 Quincy Bog Volunteer Program
by Pat Barker
Well, if you don't believe in "global climate change" now, you must have been hiding in a cellar! This rainy year is the wettest I remember, and forest fires in the western US and Australia and melting at the poles certainly captured the news. In the Bog we had a marvelous mushroom season, and the amazingly robust cucumber-root ( Medeola virginiana ) and turtle-heads ( Chelone glabra ) have just loved every raindrop. On the other hand, trail manager Bob Bulkeley battled the rain and beavers to try to keep the boardwalks above water and not floating! He deserves a big thank you. Quincy Bog volunteers deserve a big thank you, too. They manned their station even in the extreme wet weather, and visitors to the Bog really appreciated the open door at the Nature Center .
Read more of the Volunteer Program in the Winter 2009 - 2010 Bog Notes.
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