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August 2010: Looking across the stone walls Print E-mail

 alt    Looking across stone walls

Twenty miles east of Concord, New Hampshire is the town of Northwood. It's alot like much of western Massachusetts:  mostly forested, with a few lakes and some farmland. It's also pretty similar in the context of ownership-   mostly private families and individuals, with some larger pieces owned by a state park, a Wildlife Management area,  a private school, and a Boy Scout camp.

Although it is in New Hampshire, and you might think it is "way up north" (at least compared to the Massacorn area of western Massachusetts!), that region of southern  New Hampshire is undergoing some real change.

 

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