Silver Lake Land Trust, Harrisville & Nelson, NH

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The weather forecast is looking good for Saturday morning, so we will have the meeting beginning at 10 am at Brantwood Camp as planned.

Please join us for the Silver Lake Land Trust Annual Meeting at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 15, 2026 at Brantwood Camp, Breed Pond Road, Nelson. We welcome all SLLT Members and non-members to join us.

If there is inclement weather, the meeting will be held at Wells Memorial School in Chesham. We will announce the final location on the web site no later than by Friday, August 14, 2026 at noon.

Our speaker this year will be Ryan Owens, the Executive Director of the New England Forestry Foundation and previously the Executive Director of the Monadnock Conservancy.

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.

The weather forecast is looking good for Saturday morning, so we will have the meeting beginning at 10 am at Brantwood Camp as planned.

Please join us for the Silver Lake Land Trust Annual Meeting at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 30, 2025 at Brantwood Camp, Breed Pond Road, Nelson. We welcome all SLLT Members and non-members to join us.

An alternate rain location will be announced on the web site if required no later than by Friday, August 29, 2025. Please check this post for updates, and we will do a separate post if a rain location is 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.

The weather forecast is looking ok for tomorrow morning, so we will have the meeting beginning at 10 am at Brantwood Camp as planned.

There is no guest speaker tomorrow, so the meeting should not take long.

Below is a link to the 2024 Annual Report; click / tap the image to open it in a new tab..

Please join us for the Silver Lake Land Trust Annual Meeting at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 17, 2024 at Brantwood Camp, Breed Pond Road, Nelson. We welcome all SLLT Members and non-members to join us.

An alternate rain location will be announced on the web site if required no later than by Friday, August 16.

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.

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.