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2018 Natural Resource Grants Workshop

Paula Bellemore, Natural Resource Specialist May 1, 2018

• 1. Intent to Apply Form
• 2. Proposal
• 3. Site Visit
• 4. Project Updates

What You Need to Do

Accepted May 1 - May 18 Response by June 1 Intent to Apply

Scoring

Application

Standards and Practices

Standards and Practices

Standards and Practices

Project Type

Agriculture Important Agriculture Soils Active Farmland or Land Well-Suited For Long-Term Agricultural Production

Chickering Farm, Westmoreland, S. Cibula

Child’s Forest, Salisbury

Working Forests Productive Forest Soils, Managed Forestland Well-Suited for Long-Term Timber Production

Important Wildlife Habitat, Exemplary Natural Communities, Rare or Endangered Species Assists in Sustaining Natural Ecological Functions and/or Climate Resilience Ecological Values

Spring peeper (Psuedacris crucifer) Shattuck Pond, Francestown

Water Resources High-Quality or Headwater Stream or River Wetlands or Floodplain High-Priority Water Supply Lands

Tower Hill Pond, Candia

Iconic or Scenic Views or Landscapes Green Spaces in Town or City Centers Land that Uniquely Defines a Community Scenic / Aesthetic

View of Mt. Chocorua, Tamworth

Creates, Expands or Connects Recreation Areas Provides Access to Trails or Water, Near Public Schools or Community Centers

Connecticut Lakes Headwaters, credit: SPNHF

Recreation / Education

Protects a Highly Significant Historical or Cultural Resource

Raynes Farm, Exeter

Historical / Cultural

Project Overview Provide a concise narrative describing the project. Focus on:

• project purposes
• goals,
• value and
• outcomes

Briefly describe the project and outcomes, including how LCHIP funds will be used.

Attributes Attributes = Quantitative What natural features will your project protect?

Attributes

Attributes

Attributes

Attributes

Attributes

Attributes

Attributes

Attributes

Attributes

Resource Significance

• 2. Describe the conservation attributes, features or

characteristics that contribute to the property’s

• significance. Discuss how the project will achieve the

conservation goals identified in question 1.

Significance - Qualitative Why is it important to protect those attributes?

Resource Significance

• Why is the Property Important to

Conserve?

• What Strategic Benefit will be

Achieved?

• How will you Insure Protection of

those Attributes?

Imminence of Threat

Imminence of Threat a) Are there any existing or planned uses of the property that would be detrimental to the natural resource attributes identified in question 1? If yes, describe. b) Is either an Option to Purchase or a Purchase and Sale Agreement in place? If yes, when does it expire? Can it be extended if the project takes longer to complete than expected?

Imminence of Threat Is the project located in a:

• densely developed area of the State or a
• rapidly developing area of the State?

If yes, briefly discuss the rate or density of development in the project area as compared to the surrounding region.

Imminence of Threat

Imminence of Threat

Imminence of Threat

Planning & Community Support

• a. List all current or planned project partners and describe

the role of each.

• b. How are the project partners engaging the community in

this project?

b)

Planning & Community Support

• c. Has the project been prioritized

in a town master plan or indicated in other regional planning initiatives? If yes, describe Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI)

www.nh.gov/osi

Planning & Community Support

• d. Has the municipality’s governing body (Town Meeting
• r City or Town Council) voted to support the project, or

has the project received an official endorsement by elected municipal officials? If yes, describe.

• e. Is there any known opposition to the project? If yes,

describe.

Skills

Knowledge

Experience Resources

Capacity

• a. a. Briefly explain the

applicant’s capacity to implement this project. Discuss availability of knowledgeable volunteers or staff, or previous experience with projects of similar scale.

Skills

Knowledge

Experience Resources

Capacity

• a. b. Does the applicant have

previous experience with LCHIP or other similar grant: grants requested, grants received, projects completed, projects not yet completed.

Funding Plan How will you raise the funds? Why didn’t you include certain sources? What’s your “back up” plan?

Stewardship

Stewardship

Stewardship FUND PURPOSE

• Stewardship – Monitoring and routine enforcement
• Legal Defense – Cost of legal action (violation, trespass)
• Land Management – Maintenance, improvements,

habitat management

Stewardship FUND TYPE

• Endowment - Donor-restricted, only interest used
• Restricted - Donor-restricted, principle & interest used
• Designated – Allocated by Board, can be changed

Stewardship

• 7. d. Do you have written procedures for:
• Forecasting the cost of stewardship for each project?
• Documenting baseline conditions & changes over time
• Approving / prohibiting uses based on restrictions and values?
• Conservation property monitoring & management?
• Responding to violations or other challenges?
• Amending conservation restrictions?

Stewardship

• e. Describe the contingency plan in place to insure the perpetual

protection of the resource if the land trust dissolves or is unable to uphold its obligations.

• f. Has the Stewarding Organization calculated the long-term

financial obligations of its existing conservation holdings, including monitoring, enforcement, legal defense, insurance and other costs? If yes, describe.

Stewardship

• 7. g. Do the funds identified in question 7.c. meet or exceed those

amounts? If no, answer questions 1- 3 below 1) Do easement enforcement funds meet or exceed the minimum established by the LTA? 2) Does the land trust have a written plan to raise the remaining funds identified in 7.f.? 3) Is the land trust enrolled in the Terrafirma conservation insurance program?

Future Activities

The public must be granted an affirmative right of pedestrian access to, on, and across the property for hunting, fishing, and transitory passive recreational purposes.

8.a. Are the proposed landowner and interest holders familiar with and willing to accept LCHIP’s public access requirements? If no, describe any concerns.

Landowner may post against:

• Vehicles, motorized or other
• Access to active livestock fields,
• Access to agricultural cropland

during active seasons,

• Access to forest land during

management activities,

• Temporarily, in an emergency

situation where public safety would be at risk

Future Activities

LCHIP is able to limit future uses that become inconsistent with the purposes for protecting the property or put public safety at risk.

Charlestown, Fall Mountain

But…. What if ???

Future Activities

b) How will it be used? c) Will it leverage further conservation? d) Will it create new economic activity? Future Activities

• a. Significant cultural or historical resources?
• b. What else?
• c. How many visitors?

Additional Information

• Mt. Chocorua Viewshed Project Tamworth

Raynes Farm, Exeter

Project Budget

Project Budget

Sources of Funding

• Donated Property Value
• Town Funds
• Private Gifts
• Volunteer Services
• Gifts-in-Kind / Professional

Discounts

• Grants

Project Budget

Randolph, Potter CE aka Moose River Boston & Maine Rail-Trail, Pine Mountain in Distance

Eligible Expenses

• Resource Acquisition
• Surveys
• Appraisals
• Title and other legal work
• Baseline Documentation

Report

• Environmental Assessment
• Administrative (5% cap)
• Stewardship

Swanzey, Tippin’ Rock Farm

Project Budget

Project Budget

Project Budget

Locus & Topographic Maps:

• Nearby conservation land
• Legend, compass rose, scale
• Municipal boundaries
• Major roads/highways
• Target Property

Attachments 1 & 2

Natural Resource Maps

• NH Wildlife Action Plan “WAP”
• Soils
• Water Resources
• High-Priority Water Supply

Land

• Conservation Focus Areas

Attachment 3

Photos Attachment 4

• Maximum of 10
• On plain paper
• Labels, please
• People are good!

Attachment 5 Documentation of TPC

Attachments 6 & 7 Acknowledgement and Photo Release Forms

GIS Shapefile Package A minimum of three related files 1 .SHP - Shape file 2 .DBF – Attributes 3 .PRJ - Projection Attachment 11

Proposal Packages

Submit 1 “original” application, including the checklist and attachments 1 – 10, as applicable

Submit 7 additional paper copies, made up of One full proposal package with attachments 1-10 as applicable Six summary proposal packages with attachments 1-4 only

Submit one electronic copy with attachments 1-11 as applicable

Submit via USB or CD. Label jpgs to match hard copies

Timeline and Process

LCHIP Staff can: Answer Questions Review / Develop Content Check to be sure Proposal Package is complete (if submitted early)

Grant Workshop May 1 Intent to Apply Due May 18 Proposals Due June 22, 12 p.m. Staff Review & Site Visits August – September Review Panel Mid to late October Board Deliberations Mid November Notification Mid November Celebration of Awards Late November

Dijit Taylor, Executive Director………………….……......dtaylor@lchip.org Barb Beers, Office Manager……………………………..officemgr@lchip.org George Born, Historic Resource Specialist…………..….…gborn@lchip.org Paula Bellemore, Natural Resource Specialist………..pbellemore@lchip.org

Questions?