Beebe River Property

Conservation Context The Beebe River Tract is a testament to the resiliency of the earth and its natural processes. In the early 20th century this land was bisected by a 26 mile long “The Beebe River lands railroad that cut deep into the Sandwich Range. The Beebe River lands were are well loved! They’re our home to hundreds inhabiting logging camps and produced millions of board feet of timber. Five fully loaded trains of 12-14 cars each moved logs out of the front yard.” forest every day in the early 1920s, including top-quality spruce for the aircraft industry in World War I. Today, while there are evident remnants of its past, and –Resident at Community Forum it continues to be a working forest, the area is described as “wild and serene” by April 2014 those who hike, fish and hunt there.

The Beebe River property is as unique in its ecology as its history. The area is Location: at the confluence of three distinct eco-regions—the White Mountains, the New Hampshire-Vermont Uplands, and the Coastal Lowlands—with a wide variety Towns of Campton and of environmental conditions. The diversity of geology, landforms, and climates Sandwich, New Hampshire brings together an abundance of species, including numerous state-listed plant species like the Yellow Lady’s Slipper, Purple Clematis and Fern Leaved False Total Acreage: Foxglove, as well as regionally diverse tree species from tupelo to oak and spruce-fir. 5,435 acres The property also features a mix of boreal and northern hardwood forests that Acquired: provide suitable habitat for the federally threatened Canada lynx. In addition, the May 2014 state-threatened American marten has been verified in the project area by the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department. These habitat types, combined with a common border of over six miles with the White Mountain National Forest, links Key Facts: the property to over 500,000 acres of protected land, and provides ideal critical The area is in the confluence reproductive habitat for both of these species. Free ranging species such as of three ecological regions black bear thrive in this area as well. that contain Highest Ranked The conservation of these lands will mitigate anticipated shifts in habitats and Habitat by Ecological species due to global climate change. As a result, the impacts will be less severe Condition in New Hampshire in this area where a high diversity of elevations, soil types, and habitat types designated in the 2010 NH exist. Wildlife Action Plan and the Beebe River is a nursery The Beebe River Tract includes roughly 50 percent of the unfragmented Beebe stream for wild Eastern brook River watershed, the remainder of which lies in the White Mountain National Forest. A rarity, these completely undeveloped headwaters provide cold water trout. streams that are spawning habitat for wild Eastern brook trout.

In addition to hunting and fishing, protection of this property will ensure the long-term use of the area by recreationists—notably snowmobilers and cross- country skiers. Conservation will also support continued public access to a number of hiking trails, especially a 2.5-mile section of the 17-mile Crawford- Ridgepole Trail that runs the length of the bordering Squam Range.

Status The Conservation Fund used our Working Forest Fund to purchase the Beebe River tract in May 2014 as part of a 30,000 acre acquisition in four states in the Northern Forest. This literally buys time we need to craft a conservation outcome with federal, state and local partners. Working at the landscape scale in partnership with the Squam Lakes Conservation Society, the Fund will seek funding to place the Beebe River land and adjoining properties under conservation easement. The Fund will sustainably manage the property until it can be permanently protected.

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