What’s going on at Pisgah State Park?

The New Hampshire Division of Forests & Lands conducted their first timber harvest in Pisgah State Park in the winter of 2007-2008, on an 82-acre parcel in the southeast corner of the park. They have also begun management planning, and have convened an official Steering Committee, who will guide the planning process and provide a vision for Pisgah’s future. For more information, check out the New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands website and the UNH Cooperative Extension video about the commercial timber harvest at Pisgah State Park.

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Pisgah State Park Invasive Plant Survey

As a member of the Pisgah State Park Technical Team, AVEO is collaborating with Antioch University New England, Keene State College, Franklin Pierce University, Moosewood Ecological Services, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension, Harvard Forest, Friends of Pisgah State Park, and the New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands to inform landscape-level management planning for the park.  AVEO volunteers are now surveying roads and trails throughout Pisgah for the presence (and, hopefully, absence!) of select invasive plant species, in order to help track and control the introduction and spread of these harmful non-native plants.

For more information on the Pisgah State Park Invasive Plant Survey, contact AVEO at (603) 358-2069 or moon@aveo.org.

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Pisgah State Park Recreation Forums

Do you hike, ride, ski, snowshoe, botanize, birdwatch, hunt, fish, swim, or otherwise recreate in Pisgah State Park?

Even if you missed the Pisgah State Park Recreation Forums last autumn, you can still tell the Pisgah Steering Committee what the park means to you!  Click here to download the short Pisgah State Park Recreational Activities Survey, then email your completed survey to Pisgah Technical Team Coordinator Cynthia Nichols at cnichols@antioch.edu.  The deadline has been extended; to be sure that your voice is included in management discussions for the park, please respond by March 30!

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Looking Beyond the Trees: Early Successional Habitat, Wildlife Openings, and Managing Habitat Diversity in Forested Landscapes

Inge Seaboyer and Bryan Comeau of the New Hampshire Division of Forests & Lands will give a presentation on their wildlife habitat management efforts at Pisgah State Park, and discuss opportunities for funding habitat improvement on private lands through the Farm Bill.  Saturday, April 18, 9 am — 12 noon, Pisgah State Park.  To register or for more information, contact Amanda Costello at the Cheshire County Conservation District: 756-2988 x 116 or Amanda.Costello@nh.nacdnet.net.

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Pisgah: A Place Apart

A documentary film on the history of Pisgah State Park, compiled as part of the Oral History Project at the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place & Cultures at Franklin Pierce University.  Sunday, May 17, 3 pm, Colonial Theater, Keene. FREE and open to the public! For more information contact John Harris at harrisjr@franklinpierce.edu.

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Click on the links below to see what else AVEO is learning about Pisgah State Park!

Potenial Vernal Pools in Pisgah State Park (map)

Old Growth Forest in Pisgah State Park

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