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February 2012 In This Issue OSI Fund Completes Grants of Over $5 Million How a New England Town Gets a Forest Alliance Encourages Governor's Parks Budget
OSI Fund Completes Grants of Over $5 Million
	As of December 2011, Saving New England's Wildlife Fund has regranted all $5 million to protect over 20,000 acres of critical wildlife habitat in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts - valued at over $50 million. Read more »
How a New England Town Gets a Forest
	Back in 2007, the 735-person town of Albany, New Hampshire was one of only a handful of municipalities in the state that did not own its own forest. Read more »
Alliance Encourages Governor's Parks Budget
	On February 7, the Alliance’s Executive Director, Erik Kulleseid, appeared before the Joint Legislative Budget Committee testifying in support of the governor’s proposed budget. Read more »

NEWS

The preservation of the 122-acre Hampton Hills Farm is the latest parcel that the town of Warwick has preserved with funding from the Community Preservation Act.

Citizen Action is OSI’s fiscal sponsorship program for over 50 grassroots projects. Upcoming conferences include several on farming and agriculture.

The Department of Defense’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI) may provide up to $5 million for conservation transactions near military bases in Georgia and Florida.

Together with the adjacent Domino dairy farm, the Rominger farm easement creates a 242-acre swath of preserved viable farmland and abundant scenic and natural beauty.