Our Funders
Our Partners
- Friends of Quincy Bog contribute annually or monthly to support the Bog, and Taffe Conservation Fund Donors support the acquisition of conservation easements. Most of our funding comes from members of the public, justifying our IRS status as a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt organization.
- Landowners of Conservation Easement Properties donate Stewardship Fees to support easement monitoring and defense in perpetuity.
- Grantors
- Grants from the NH Charitable Foundation, Madelaine G. VonWeber Trust, Davis Conservation Foundation, Meredith Village Savings Bank and Samuel P. Hunt Foundation enabled the Bog to improve access and user safety by upgrading or replacing old boardwalks and bridges on the north side of the property. (2020-2021)
- McIninch Foundation funding improved access to the Nature Center for families with babies and strollers, the elderly with walkers, and those using crutches. The trail was graded and surfaced with gravel composite from both kiosks to the bog edge, and boardwalks were added and resurfaced to improve the trail around the Bog. (2012-2013)
- Meredith Village Savings Bank funded the Bog’s pontoon bridge and provided benches for rest and contemplation along the Bog trail. (2012-2013)
- Citizens Bank and the bank’s donor-advised Arthur Getz Charitable Trust funded the purchase of computer equipment and software to support PBLT record-keeping. (2012-2013)
- Program Sponsors
- Green Acre Woodlands supports the production of the Quincy Bog Trail Guide.
- Avangrid has contributed to producing our biannual Bog Notes
- Precision Lumber has supported publication of the Junior Naturalist Activity Book.
- The Common Man supported the 40th Anniversary Celebration at the Bog in 2014.
- Forest Resource Consultants LLC donated administrative support services for many years and currently contracts with QBNA/PBLT to provide bookkeeping and administrative services.
- Local Partners
- Town Conservation Commissions
- The Rumney Conservation Commission co-sponsored a conservation easement workshop and provided stewardship/monitoring funds for two PBLT easement properties.
- The Campton Conservation Commission partnered with PBLT to place an easement on the West Branch Brook Forest property owned by the Town of Campton. PBLT is currently working with the Wentworth Conservation Commission to protect town woodlands.
- Members of four Town Conservation Commissions (Campton, Plymouth, Rumney, and Thornton) also serve on the QBNA/PBLT Board of Directors.
- PBLT partners with Conservation Commissions and other local conservation organizations to publish monthly Conservation Matters articles in the Record Enterprise. http://www.camptonconservation.org/conservation-matters-articles/
- Local Schools
- The Russell Elementary School Rumney Rangers Program has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with QBNA in which the Bog agrees “to provide a natural, outdoor setting that will enhance the outdoor educational pursuits of the Rumney Rangers” and gives the program access to the Nature Center.
- Numerous local elementary schools including Campton, Plymouth, Rumney, Thornton, Warren and Wentworth regularly bring student to Quincy Bog, often participating in the Bog’s Junior Naturalist Program.
- Plymouth Regional High School AP Biology has regularly used the Bog as an outdoor laboratory for their students.
- Plymouth State University
- The Bog and Quincy Pasture Forest regularly offer PSU classes opportunities for field work.
- We provide Student Internships that give students research experience and add to knowledge of the QBNA properties.
- In 2013 PSU Geologist Dr. Lisa Doner took a 10-meter core of sediments from the bog pond, dating back to the end of the most recent Ice Age approximately 12,000 years ago. The core provides material for student research projects which add to the Bog’s post-glacial history.
- Town Conservation Commissions
- State and National Partners
- PBLT is a member of the Land Trust Alliance and the NH Land Trust Coalition.
- UNH Cooperative Extension provides speakers and leaders for many of the Bog’s summer walks and talks. Its wildlife and forestry specialists advise the organization about managing the Quincy Pasture Forest and Baker Forest.
- The Nature Conservancy provided funding during the founding of Quincy Bog Natural Area in the 1970s, conveyed the Quincy Pasture Forest property to the Bog, and holds a conservation easement on property.