Silver Lake Land Trust, Harrisville & Nelson, NH

Thanks to all members and guests for attending the 2023 Annual Meeting on August 12. Thanks also to our guest speaker, Chris Hardee, of High Cairn Films, for his talk about the short documentary film that he is producing about the old Seaver Farm house, “Good-by to a House”. (A trailer for the film is at the bottom of the web site I linked above.)

We have two follow-ups to the meeting.

First, our members asked if it would be possible to see the Buckingham, Brown and Nichols site, to see an example of the campsites that BB&N would like to add mitigation to the cooking areas, and the path that they wish to use to bring materials to three of these sites using a motorized Gator vehicle. (See this link for an example of a Gator.) I will try to arrange this with BB&N before the end of the summer, and will send an update to members both here at this web site and by email if we are able to do so.

Second, the petition to change our Bylaws passed, but one of the changes – removing the power of trustees to approve members, instead allowing members to be considered in good standing when they paid dues – was controversial in the absence of any policies that specified the proper behavior of members as well as a way for members or trustees to remove membership due to bad behavior, etc. The trustees will draft and circulate new policies to members, and will also petition a change to the Bylaws to reinstate this power of trustees to approve members for a vote at next year’s annual meeting, in case a majority of our members disagree with our new policies. I will circulate a petition for signatures well before next year’s meeting.

Look for follow-ups on these two items in the coming months.

Below is a link to the 2023 Annual Report; click the image to open the report in a new tab.

The weather forecast for tomorrow morning looks good so the meeting will bet at Brantwood starting at 10 a.m.

Please join us for the Silver Lake Land Trust Annual Meeting at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 12, 2023 at Brantwood Camp, Breed Pond Road, Nelson. We welcome all SLLT Members and non-members to join us.

This year we have no formal program but Chris Hardee of High Cairn Films, who is making a documentary short film about Seaver Farm, will make a short presentation about the film at the meeting. If we can somehow manage it, Chris will show a trailer for the film – we will also have a link here on the website in case we cannot manage.

The rain location will be announced on the web site as soon as possible but no later than by Friday, August 11 if required.

Directions to Brantwood Camp from the Harrisville end of Silver Lake: Drive Breed Road heading northeast past Silver Lake, with the lake to your left, all the way to the stop sign at the end, with Childs Bog to your right. Turn left onto Nelson Road. After about 1 mile, turn slightly left onto Hardy Hill Road (a gravel road, and the rest of the roads are gravel). After about 0.7 miles, make a sharp left onto Lead Mine Road. After about 0.7 miles, make a left turn onto Breed Pond Rd. Drive carefully up the bumpy road for about a half mile to Brantwood Camp.

Edit: The alert has expired

At the 2022 annual meeting, Bob Gogolen mentioned that NH Lakes offers something called the Lake Smart Program, which will come to your property to analyze how lake-friendly your property is and provide an evaluation report. If there are actions that you can take to improve your property, the report will suggest upgrades.

NH Lakes has more information about this program at this web site: https://nhlakes.org/lakesmart/

And on that page you will fid a link to fill out a form to start the process. To save searching the site for the link, here is the link to the form: https://s.pointerpro.com/lakesmartstart

Since the weather is predicted to have zero chance of rain, we will be holding the annual meeting at Brantwood Camp on Saturday morning as planned.

Please find below a link to the 2022 Annual Report of the Silver Lake Land Trust; click the image below to open it.

Please join us for the Silver Lake Land Trust Annual Meeting at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 13, 2022 at Brantwood Camp, Breed Pond Road, Nelson. We welcome all SLLT Members and non-members to join us.

This year we have no formal program but thought that we could all share remembrances and celebrate the life of Paul Geddes.

The rain location will be announced on the web site by Friday, August 12 if required.

Directions to Brantwood Camp from the Harrisville end of Silver Lake: Drive Breed Road heading northeast past Silver Lake, with the lake to your left, all the way to the stop sign at the end, with Childs Bog to your right. Turn left onto Nelson Road. After about 1 mile, turn slightly left onto Hardy Hill Road (a gravel road, and the rest of the roads are gravel). After about 0.7 miles, make a sharp left onto Lead Mine Road. After about 0.7 miles, make a left turn onto Breed Pond Rd. Drive carefully up the bumpy road for about a half mile to Brantwood Camp.