Our mission includes:
Making recommendations to other boards regarding actions that will affect natural and watershed resources.
Making recommendations to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NH DES) regarding local wetlands issues.
Protecting Spruce Swamp and the upland buffer around it. This wetland complex is among the highest quality of habitat in New Hampshire and home to rare, endangered and threatened plants and animals.
Protecting the Piscassic and Exeter rivers and its watershed to the fullest extent possible. These rivers and their tributaries flow into the Great Bay.
Protecting the regional conservation focus areas identified in regional and state plans. Two of the focus areas in these plans include Spruce Swamp and the Exeter River and its watershed.
Managing the Oak Ridge and Glen Oakes Town Forests by balancing low impact recreation with habitat and water resources protection.
Performing public outreach on natural resources, conservation and recreation.