The Center partnered with residents and nonprofits to help create a 250-acre Community Forest in Hanover, NH.

A team of residents has collaborated since 2014 to create and expand the Milan Community Forest to more than 2,000 acres.

Four New Hampshire communities and a local land trust own and manage this 843-acre property. The Center helped create this unique governance structure to make the project possible.

Our first Community Forest project in 2005 helped the town of Errol, NH, create a Community Forest that has generated $3.7 million in timber sales, supported the local economy, and given thousands of people a beautiful place to recreate.

The Center worked with partners in Lancaster, NH, to ensure that students had internet access to learn from home when Covid-19 shut down schools in the spring of 2020.

Located between the Connecticut River and the White Mountain National Forest, the town of Lancaster offers easy access to outdoor activities and recreation for residents and visitors.

Since 2018, Center staff have been working with the Town of Lancaster on community development projects that engage a wide range of residents.

The transformation of the Parker J. Noyes building in Lancaster, NH is creating quality downtown living spaces for residents, adding new commercial space where small businesses can thrive, and creating palpable excitement on the vibrant Main Street.

From the beginning of the Center’s community revitalization work, Lancaster, NH stood out as a place where concentrated investment would go a long way.

Take an impromptu video tour of the early stage of our renovation of the Parker J. Noyes building in Lancaster, NH.