SUTTON CONSERVATION COMMISSION

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 @ 6:30 PM

Pillsbury Memorial Hall

Review minutes of July 10, 2023.

Financial Report

— Treasurer’s report re: moving our accounts to Bar Harbor Bank

Trail Maintenance and Development

— Update on the KHR donation system

— KHR Penacook Path culvert rebuild/replacement

— Chain saw authorization for volunteers

– Report on Volunteer Workdays

Wetlands Review

– None.

Review of Intents to Cut and Logging Issues

— NH DOT I-89 project, Sutton Rest Area, T/L# 5-703-110, 4 acres out of 22, John Brown & Sons, Inc loggers.

— Schnitzer Trust, Music Hill Rd, T/L# 06-068-417, 8 of 48 acres. There is a conservation easement on this land, held by SPNHF.

New Business

— Report from ASLPT outreach meeting

Old Business

— Update on Stockwell property donation

— 5 year review of SCC Master Plan – Data layers

— Dog waste on KHR Hominy Pot Trail & Penacook Path

Property Reviews

— Update on golf course

— Other properties

Publicity

— Possible SCC sponsored community presentation

Correspondence

– Email from Anita Blakeman regarding chainsaw safety class offered by the NHTOA. She also wanted to make a correction to last month’s minutes, which stated that she said the Penacook Path is a Class VI road. She does not believe that it is.

– July e-news newsletter from NHACC with info about recent Supreme Court decisions with negative conservation impact, annual meeting & conference, photo contest, news from other concoms, several grant opportunities and training opportunities (easement monitoring, forest health, trail training).

– Email from Betsy Forsham letting us know that the encroachment agreement between the town and the then owners of the little white house adjacent to Russell Pond is in the Russell Pond folder in the SCC file cabinet.

– Letter from ASLPT asking SCC to become a business partner.

– Chatter, newsletter of the ASLPT, Summer 2024 issue.

Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 11, 2024, at 6:30 PM, at Sutton Town Hall