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.

 

Future of NH State Parks

November 25, 2009 Update: State announces draft plan. Conservation NH posts video on YouTube.

For the past four years, the future of New Hampshire’s state parks has been discussed and examined by a series of public committees and the New Hampshire Legislature. The process continues this fall with the expected release of a draft 10-year Strategic Plan by the Division of Parks and Recreation. Overseeing the development of the plan is the State Parks Advisory Commission, or SPAC. Comprised of many citizen volunteers and legislators, including the Sunapee region’s Senator Bob Odell, the SPAC meets in Concord regularly to review the agency’s progress on the strategic plan.

Stay tuned to friendsofmountsunapee.org to follow along with the release of the upcoming 10-year Strategic Plan and related public hearings and comment period. Once approved, the strategic plan will form the basis for legislation to be introduced in the legislature in early 2010. This legislation may lead to major systemic changes to the way we fund and manage our priceless public assets, and will not be easy to pass without enormous grassroots support.

FOMS encourages you to engage in these discussions and demonstrate your passion for a better funded, more transparent, and better managed state park system for the people of New Hampshire. In addition to our website, you can follow along with the SPAC strategic planning process here on the NH Parks website: State Park Advisory Council.

Get involved and stay tuned!

 
 

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