Winter 2014 FOREST NOTES | 3
THE FORESTER’S PRISM Our Members Really Get It recently met a young filmmaker who From a different CHAIR Carolyn Benthien, Goffstown was exploring what it is about New part of the state, VICE CHAIR Hampshire that inspires love and “These forty years William Webb, Holderness I loyalty among those who live here. She being part of the SECRETARY Midge Eliassen, Sunapee “didn’t get it,” but was curious about what Forest Society are forty TREASURER keeps people here, what draws them back I am glad to count. Leonard “Hunt” Dowse , Hancock as visitors year after year, and why they And the sense I had PRESIDENT/FORESTER Jane A. Difley, Webster value the state’s mountains and rivers, when I joined… that BOARD OF TRUSTEES wildlife and forests. I’m glad she chose just in joining, I was, Charlie Bridges, New Durham Margo Connors, Sugar Hill to visit us, and I hope we helped her in with other members and those who had Katharine Eneguess, Jaffrey her quest. been before, helping to protect places that Pamela Hall , Portsmouth Deanna Howard, Etna On a different place on the spectrum are matter.” Our members are eloquent, as well William McCarten, Lancaster Jack Middleton, Freedom our members, who love New Hampshire and as involved! Howard Moffett, Canterbury are loyal supporters of our conservation From Colorado came a letter from mem - Rebecca Oreskes, Milan William H. Smith, Moultonborough work. Many have been members for decades, bers who recently moved from the Granite Hank Swan, Lyme and each fall we recognize them for their State: “One of the things that did not go out Stephen Taylor, Meriden Bill Tucker , Goffstown loyalty.
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