Entering New London from the south end of Main Street is one of the "gateway to the town" open space meadows which was protected in less than three months of fundraising organized by Ausbon Sargent. The view from the road across Main Street Meadow takes your gaze southwest to the overlapping foothills as they begin their march northward toward the White Mountains. When neighbors realized the field had been staked out for house lots, they contacted Ausbon Sargent, whose staff and board members organized enough support to buy and protect this property.Read more

Brooks McCandlish and his wife Janet Sillars wanted to conserve their Bradford land, the "Kisakanari" woodlot for two decades and as of 3/11 donated a conservation easement on 318 acres to Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust. Brooks and Janet raise Jacobs sheep, a small multi-horned heritage breed, producing fiber and meat from their pastures. Brooks is a licensed forester who provides a fine eye to forest management on the property (and many other properties in our region), resulting in forest stands of high quality trees.Read more

The open fields, some of the last in town, provide stunning views of Mt. Kearsarge as you drive south along Route 114 heading into New London. These 22-acres of prime soils are leased currently by Spring Ledge Farm to grow local produce. Spring Ledge owner, Greg Berger, explains that “These great soils were created over the millennia, with characteristics you just can’t replace. From a growing standpoint, an acre in one of these fields is quite different from an acre somewhere else in town.Read more

Ausbon Sargent holds the conservation easement on 46.95 acres on the north east edge of Messer Pond and County Road. This land belongs to the Town of New London, whose citizens voted to place permanent protection on this town owned property at the March 2010 town meeting. With 1,360’ road frontage on County Road, the land is primarily forested, but also contains wetlands that have herbaceous vegetation. This property is open to the public with 510 feet of frontage on Messer Pond - providing watershed protection to Messer Pond whose waters eventually flow into Clark Pond.Read more

C.O.R.E., an acronym for conservation, open-space, recreation, environment, represented the alliance of four local organizations to purchase 55 acres of undeveloped open space including 2,469 feet of road frontage along Knights Hill Road. Working cooperatively, the four groups brought different skills and knowledge to the C.O.R.E. project.Read more

The New England Forestry Foundation permanently protected 130 acres located on the northwesterly side of Little Lake Sunapee with road frontage (1628 feet) on Little Sunapee Road and both sides of Burnt Hill Road. The Little Sunapee Associates made a contribution to this project that allowed the ASLPT to cover administrative and legal costs. Forestry activities are the only permitted uses on the property, which also cannot be used to satisfy density requirements with respect to development of other lands.Read more

Mary "Mimi" West, Edward "Ted" Anthony and Helen James gave five acres of land at the Corner of Columbus Ave. and Route 103A to the Town of New London with a conservation easement being held by Ausbon Sargent. Though small in size, this parcel of wetlands and forest is part of the large buffer zone of land between I-89 and Route 103A, which was identified by the Lake Sunapee Protective Association, and the New London Conservation Commission as critical to the watershed protection of Lake Sunapee.Read more

Robert O’Neil donated this conservation easement on a 22.3-acre portion of his Sutton property located along NH Route 114 and Johnson Hill Road.  The easement will help to protect not only the abundant wildlife habitat in that area, but also several bodies of water including Russell Pond and Blaisdell Lake.  The property has highly ranked forestry and agricultural soils and is listed as “farmland of local significance.”  The O’Neil easement is adjacent to the existing Russell Pond Conservation Easement, making this area around the pond a haven for wildlife.Read more

In 2002, a group of concerned neighbors in East Andover co-purchased a 54-acre parcel of land to protect it from future development. The group, including Alex Bernhard and Myra Mayman, Fritz and Barbara Hunting, Joyce Jones, Jon and Vicki Mishcon, and Lori Cox, named the property Old College Road Preserve. After more than 10 years of ownership, the property owners approached Ausbon Sargent Land Protection Specialist, Andy Deegan, to discuss their desire to gift full ownership of Old College Road Preserve to the land trust.Read more