Present: Mary Jo MacGowan (presiding), Betsy Janeway, Sally Embley, Linda Clark, Nancy Van Loan, and Bob Quinn (alternate).
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Agenda Item
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Summary
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1. Appoint Secretary and alternates, if needed.
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Bob Quinn volunteered to take minutes. The meeting was called to order at 7:42 pm.
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2. Minutes from November.
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MJ moved and Betsy seconded acceptance of the November minutes. Approved unanimously.
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3. Correspondence
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SPNHF sent information about sending easement reports in digitally. MJ and Betsy discussed the process for doing that with this year’s reports.
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4. Easement monitoring
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Mock and Phelps II are still to be done but MJ will see to it. Linda and Tom installed a pipe at Riverdale to better mark a corner. Betsy will work with MJ to submit the outstanding reports electronically. Many thanks to Betsy, Linda, Susan, MJ, and Bob MacGowan.
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5. Wildlife Action Plan meetings
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Linda will be attending a mapping session and MJ (and others) plan to attend a wildlife session. Everyone is encouraged to attend one or more meeting. As a reminder we all should report pertinent wildlife settings.
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6. Budget for 2016
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MJ has talked with Wendy about our 2016 budget. Wendy was to pay for our 2016 NHACC dues.
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7. Wildlife sightings
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A Red-shouldered Hawk was seen along Route 127 and another Northern Saw-whet Owl was hear at Bob’s house. MJ recently heard a Great Horned Owl. Linda reported Common Goldeneyes on Pillsbury.
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8. Old Business
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Betsy presented Nancy Dobe’s class with a program about wetlands/water and it went swimmingly.
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9. Outing
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We decided to wait until the next meeting to discuss a possible snow-shoe trip. After a brief presentation by Bob of a Spotted Salamander migration in April 2015 we discussed having a WCC herp watch in the spring of 2016. In general it would be on the first rainy night in April. Details to be determined.
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