Squam Lakes Association Forestry Management Program on September 13

HOLDERNESS — The Squam Lakes Association continues its monthly speaker series on Thursday, September 13 with a program on forest management presented by New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) which will start at 7 p.m.at the Fisher Family Barn located next to the SLA office building on Route 3 in Holderness.

The mission of the NEFF is to conserve New England's working forests through conservation and ecologically sound management of privately owned forestlands in New England, throughout the Americas and beyond. The focus of this talk will be on the forest management of the Chamberlain Reynolds Memorial Forest located in Center Harbor. For more information on NEFF visit their website at www.newenglandforestry.org/.

This is the third in SLA's new speakers series. Previous programs included talks on Lake Ecology and Loons. The Squam Speaker Series - free and open to the public -focuses on a variety of local/regional conservation and environmental topics.

October's topic will be presented by Antioch New England Graduate student, Don Kemp, on his recent work re-developing an interpretive trail on Squam Lakes Association's Moon Island. White Mountain National Forest Botanist, Chris Mattrick, will present a program on invasive plants in November.

All talks will start at 7 p.m. and are held at the SLA's Fisher Family Barn. For more information visit: www.squamlakes.org or call (603) 968-7336.