Comments from Members

- Keep up the good work.  Respect the action of those who gave up land under policy of eminent domain. . .

- Educate the children while they are young - encourage hikes, work days, etc.

- Stay focused on primary goal of protecting our park. 

- It is so important to keep access to the State Park affordable to local people.  This is not happening. Mount Sunapee for the affluent is in no one's interest.

- Keep the Mt. Sunapee buffer zone intact.  Discourage development that mars our mountain sides (and tops). Encourage zoning that makes best conservation use of land - leaving corridors open. 

- The low-intensity recreation (e.g. hiking) and ecological protection should take precedence over ski area development and management, at Mt. Sunapee State Park and elsewhere, and you provide effective advocacy f or that good.

- Get back N.H. Seniors’ rights to free skiing at Mt. Sunapee. We are the landlords not the tenants.

- Work to safeguard protected public lands from environmentally damaging uses, commercialization and privatization.

 

Ledge Pond in Sunapee

SUNAPEE, NH (November 2009)—Sunapee voters can look forward to a town warrant article in 2010 that seeks to permanently protect over 85 acres of land on Ledge Pond in the northwest part of town. In late October (2009), the Sunapee Conservation Commission held a public walkabout of the area to explain the plan and seek input, and is now working on a warrant article for Town Meeting. In association with the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust, the commission wants to place a conservation easement on the Ledge Pond lot, which is just under 80 acres and designated as Town Forest. The proposal will also include the Gore lot (1.2 acres of town-owned land) and a 7-acre parcel on the northwest side of the pond.

Ledge Pond is a 110-acre, shallow water body that once served as a surface reservoir for Georges Mills. The land around the pond is largely undeveloped. Loons are still known to return to Ledge Pond to nest in the spring. The conservation of land around Ledge Pond is consistent with the Commission’s natural inventory plan for protecting Sunapee’s important ecological assets including unfragmented forestlands, wildlife habitat and water resources. 

Download a Ledge Pond Lot Trail Map, prepared by the Sunapee Conservation Commission.
 

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