Grant Corner: Land Protection Transaction Grants
The Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership (GBRPP) is offering grants to assist with the costs for permanent land protection projects (donation and/or acquisition of full fee and conservation easements) within the coastal watershed area of New Hampshire and Maine. The October 2020 grant round will accept applications for both the Grant Program 1 Prospective Project Appraisals and Grant Program 2 Completed Project Transaction Costs. 

Electronic submittal instructions can be found here, and the application form can be found online.

The Partnership’s application instruction webinar from April 17, 2018 is available in a PDF
version of the presentation slides.

Learn more on the GBRPP website.
Planning Event of Interest: Farms for the Future: A Skill-Building Workshop Series for Municipalities, Land Trusts, and Non-Profits to Support Farms and Farmers in northern New England
American Farmland Trust will be hosting an upcoming web workshop series "Farms for the Future: A Skill-Building Workshop Series for Municipalities, Land Trusts, and Non-Profits to Support Farms and Farmers in northern New England." This 5-part series will take place in partnership with Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, Maine Farmland Trust, Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire, and Vermont Housing and Conservation Board.

The free workshops series is focused on building capacity in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and will provide introductory-level skill-building resources, guidance, and networking. The intended audiences are municipalities, land trusts, and organizations interested in protecting more farmland, increasing land access for farmers, building climate resiliency, planning for agriculture, and advancing land justice.

Participants will hear from local and regional experts and professionals in the field, including farmers, planners, land trusts, policy makers, scientists, and land justice advocates. Workshops will be highly interactive and limited to 30 people to facilitate networking and dialogue.

The webinars will be presented online in August and September 2020, and will be recorded and available online at Farmland Information Center (farmlandinfo.org) and American Farmland Trust (farmland.org)¹. 

The first workshop, "Supporting and Sustaining Farms, Farmers, and Farmland in your Community" will be held on Aug. 18, Aug. 19, and Aug. 20 for New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont, respectively.

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¹ Information shared from a SELT NH email
New Hampshire Silver Jackets Flood Hazards Geodatabase Informational Workshop
The New Hampshire Silver Jackets invites all local Emergency Management Directors (EMDs), municipal officials, and Hazard Mitigation Planners to an informational workshop (via WebEx) related to the state’s Flood Hazards Geodatabase for flood hazard mitigation, and for submittal of accurate post-flood locational and event information to HSEM and other agencies.

Presenters will include staff from the New Hampshire Geological Survey (NHGS) and Dam Bureau at NHDES; Hazard Mitigation staff at NH HSEM; and the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Gray, Maine; Local EMDs and municipal officials from across New Hampshire.

The workshop will be held twice, once during the day, and once in the evening. The daytime session takes place on Tuesday, Aug. 18, from 9 - 11 a.m, where the evening session take places on Monday, Aug. 24 from 6 - 8 p.m. 

The training will cover the geodatabase development process, its connections to Hazard Mitigation Plan Updates, comments from the National Weather Services, values of observations and potential uses for related information, and recommended protocols for submitting accurate flood information to WebEOC and State agencies.

View the agenda here.

Those interested should RSVP to Shane Csiki via e-mail, at NHGS/NHDES at Shane.Csiki@des.nh.gov. 

For more information, contact Shane Csiki, at NHGS/NHDES at (603) 271-2876, or Shane.Csiki@des.nh.gov. 
Strafford Regional Planning Commission | 603-994-3500 | srpc@strafford.org| www.strafford.org
August 14, 2020