Green Mountain Conservation Group is a unique forum through which officials of the six towns in the Ossipee watershed -- covering New Hampshire's largest and most important glacial (stratified-drift) aquifer -- come together and actively cooperate on a wide range of conservation issues. No other forum brings Selectmen, Conservation Commission members and Planning Board members of the six towns together as GMCG does.

Understanding its unique role as a conservation intermediary, GMCG is consistently non-confrotational, fact-based, informative (and actually, fun) in its approach. Among its most important recent activities, GMCG has pioneered the development of a region-wide manual for town management of environmental issues and has compiled a library -- shared with each town -- of all existing conservation and environmental regulations and ordinances of the six towns.

It is hard to imagine a gentler, more effective player in regional environmental management than Green Mountain Conservation Group.

Robert Gillette
Ossipee Planning Board

Dear GMCG friends and supporters Thank you all so much for yet another outpouring to tried and true grassroots support. You have been so patient and committed in voting over the past few months on this campaign for the much needed award of $15,000. As we near the end of this campaign we are all so thankful for such strong support from our rural area of New Hampshire. Since its inception in 1997, GMCG has been working to protect New Hampshire's largest stratified drift aquifer as well as other shared natural resources. GMCG has continued to do this through the inclusion of many different citizens-- knowing that the more we all know about our resources through science and education, the more informed planning decisions we can all make. GMCG operates on a tiny budget and a staff of only 1 1/2 full time folks. This budget is raised mainly through grant writing with 10 percent coming from memberships. The reason GMCG can do what it does and have the great successes it has is because of the incredible amount of inkind donations we receive from so many other organizations and residents and from YOU our supporters. This week, GMCG has just completed its very first well sampling project--sampling over 100 individual wells across the watershed to have a snapshot of the quality of our ground water in the Ossipee Watershed. This has largely been made possible by inkind donations and an incredible outpouring of volunteer help. The Ossipee area of New Hampshire is a very rural and small region but comprised of a fiesty community commmitted to protecting our shared resources and planning for our growth based on protecting these resources. Thank you all for what you do and thank you across the Globe for your cyber support in Round one and Round two of this campaign--our first online type of campaign! Blair Folts Executive Director, GMCG

This video shows how GMCG gives to the watershed - thanks GMCG for all you do !! http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/VideosSeries/VideoView.aspx?vid=8938_5594213&pid=2303818&scid=0