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Gordon, Frank & Dot, Chetwood Trust (Sunapee)

  • 19.59 acres
  • 11/92
  • (L)

In 1992, Frank Gordon and his wife Dot made their affection for this region concrete by protecting 63 acres and 3,000 feet of shoreline on Lake Sunapee. Through Ausbon Sargent, they restricted development and guaranteed public access on their properties on Jobs Creek Road in Sunapee (details below) and four years later in New London on Davis Hill Road and along Otter Pond. (Information about this second easement HERE.)Read more

Gordon, Lincoln/Darkwater, LLC

  • 35.70 acres
  • 2/95
  • (L)

Initially, Dr. Lincoln Gordon intended to make an "outright donation" of some of his property. He had two important objectives: to permanently protect his property and to reduce the value of his estate. However, by donating a conservation easement he retained ownership, protected his property from development, and reduced the value of his estate.Read more

Graves

  • 53.13 acres
  • 6/01
  • (N)

Encompassing 53.13 acres of predominantly open pastureland with approximately 200 feet of frontage on Highland Lake and 2150 feet of frontage along Maple Street, the Property provides the general public with spectacular views of Highland Lake to the east and of Mt. Kearsarge to the west. It has been identified by the Town of Andover on a "Sensitive Natural Areas" map as a property having special characteristics to be preserved.Read more

Gross/Walton & Parent

  • 100.50 acres
  • 12/09
  • (L)

Located on the north side of Route 11, one mile west of the village of Andover, this easement is a gateway property to Andover along a major east/west route. It protects the rural character of the area, being primarily forested, but includes open fields - protecting habitat for deer, moose, bear, turkey, woodland birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mussels and insects as well as protecting high quality forest soils. The protection of this property aids in the conservation of habitat for a species of special concern, a state threatened, and a state endangered species.Read more

Hayes/Deer Hill Trust

  • 267.00 acres
  • 12/06
  • (L)

In December of 2006, Cynthia Hayes and John Trachy donated a conservation easement on their 266.92-acre property. The easement includes the 200 year old historic home and surrounding 13.92-acre homestead area. The property includes the headwaters of Baptist Pond, which flow into Lake Sunapee and also the headwaters of the north branch of the Sugar River. The land is mostly forested with habitat for a variety of native wildlife. The Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway (SRKG) passes through the property on Deer Hill Road and is visible to snowmobile riders on NH Primary Trail #151.Read more

Hermit Woods

  • 27.00 acres
  • 10/22

On October 11, 2022, The Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust finalized a conservation easement on 27  acres of land in Goshen, NH. Owners, Sandy Sonnichsen and Allen Howe donated the easement to the land trust, ensuring that their acreage would be protected from development, forever. Read more

Hersey, Gerald (Farm and Forest)

  • 267.70 acres
  • 8/07
  • (L)

For the better part of the past century, Jerry Hersey, his parents, or his grandparents have been farming the side of a small green valley at the foot of Chase Hill in Andover. Even today, trucks rumbling along Route 11 barely interrupt the lush green pastures and hay fields that spread down the hill toward the woods shading Sucker Brook.Read more

Hersey, Roger/Hersey

  • 54.25 acres
  • 10/10
  • (L)

The Roger Hersey Farm is predominantly farmland used for pasture with some forested land. The farm has been managed by the Hersey family for over 100 years, and currently produces Hereford breeding stock, and beef cattle. It lies adjacent to the 267 acre Hersey Family Farm and Forest, belonging to Roger’s cousin Jerry Hersey, which was conserved by Ausbon Sargent with two conservation easements in 2007. Currently both cousins’ properties are managed as one farm.Read more

Hiller Trust

  • 69.20 acres
  • 12/10
  • (N)

The 69.2 acre Hiller conservation easement is adjacent to the already protected Hersey Family Farm and the Roger Hersey Farm – conserving over 325 contiguous acres on Route 11 and the Rail Trail in Andover. The Hiller land includes woodland with two small open fields on the east side of Valley Road and prime wetlands (as designated by the Town of Andover), which are located west of Valley Road along the northern boundary. Sucker Brook and several tributaries run through this easement with an old mill site on Sucker Brook, south of the house.Read more

Jillette

  • 51.00 acres
  • 12/14
  • (L)

The 51-acre Jillette Conservation Easement is located in Goshen with over 815 feet of frontage on the east side of Brickyard Road. Landowner, Bea Jillette, manages the property for timber production and her large field, with its beautiful views of the surrounding mountains, is maintained by a local farmer for hay production. The property is highly rated for wildlife habitat, including deer, moose, bear, turkey, woodland birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects. It also contains highly ranked forestry soils and is very close to over 17,000 acres of other contiguous conservation land.Read more

Johnson Trusts/Thistlewaite

  • 92.00 acres
  • 8/08
  • (L)

The Thad and Virginia Johnson conservation easement on 92 acres in Sutton Mills, was completed on August 29, 2008, and was the 95th property conserved by Ausbon Sargent. The Johnson/Thistlewaite easement can be seen from Route 114 north of the turn to the Highway Garage in Sutton Mills. Their conservation easement protects 92 acres of woodlands with frontage on three public roads. This is a gateway property for both Sutton Mills and the region at large. The property borders the west side of Route 114, the north side of Village Road, and the east side of scenic Corporation Hill Road.Read more

Johnson/Town of Goshen

  • 60.00 acres
  • 11/98
  • (U)

In 1998, Hazel Gladue Johnson signed over the 60-acres of her family farm on Brook Road in Goshen to the Town of Goshen with the conservation easement held by Ausbon Sargent. She donated her land and the development rights so that her property would be maintained for wildlife habitat and recreational uses, saying, "I like animals and there's so much development. The animals have to have a place to go." She went on to say, "I think we cannot own the land.Read more

Jolyon Johnson

  • 34.10 acres
  • 12/03
  • (L)

Sunapee’s Wendell Marsh and the Sugar River have received an important measure of protection through a conservation easement donation by Dr. Jolyon Johnson. Prior to the protection of the Wendell Marsh in three phases (which began in 2013), The Sunapee veterinarian donated the development rights to two forested properties totaling 34.1 acres with 2,102 feet of road frontage along Route 11.Read more

Kentlands

  • 1.40 acres
  • 4/91
  • (N)

In 1991, the owners of the "Kentlands" Boathouse property, Mrs. Bessie Phillips, and the Denny Beach Realty Trust helped protect the scenic shoreline of Little Lake Sunapee by donating a conservation easement to Ausbon Sargent. This is an excellent example of several landowners working together to protect contiguous lands. This cooperative effort protected a total of 9.35 acres over the three properties, which includes 1,650 feet of shoreline.Read more

Kidder Lot/Calerin, LLC

  • 0.35 acres
  • 12/91
  • (Deed Restricted)

Ausbon Sargent was given this property by William F. Kidder in 1988. As a condition of the state funded LCIP project to protect Spring Ledge Farm, it was then conveyed to the owners of Spring Ledge Farm subject to restrictions. The purpose of the restrictions are to maintain the property in perpetuity as open space for conservation and agricultural purposes and to protect the scenic and rural quality of the property. Spring Ledge Farm uses this small lot, which is visible to the public from Main Street, to grow farm crops.Read more

Kidder Tract

  • 37.00 acres
  • 5/99
  • (U)

Before the spring of 1999, maps of the Hay Forest Reservation bore a resemblance to a gap-toothed grin - something was missing. Notched out from the curve of the northern boundary was a 37-acre sliver of hillside, once slated for an 18-unit condominium. To fill that gap Ausbon Sargent helped raise $69,000 to purchase the parcel and make it part of the Hay Forest as well as creating a permanent memorial to New London conservationist Bill Kidder Jr..Read more

Kidder-Cleveland/New London

  • 16.20 acres
  • 12/91
  • (L)

To meet the matching dollar requirements of the New Hampshire Land and Community  Investment Program (LCIP) for the Town of New London to purchase the Spring Ledge Farm conservation easement, longtime New London residents William F. Kidder and James C. Cleveland donated the value of their conservation easements on 16.2 acres of their land on Pleasant Street to the Town.Read more

King Hill Reservation

  • 441.00 acres
  • 4/99
  • (U)

In 1999, Frank Stewart of Northland Residential Corporation deeded 441 acres of what was the King Ridge Ski Area to the Town of Sutton, with Ausbon Sargent holding the conservation easement. The gift came after nearly two years during which Stewart negotiated the purchase of King Ridge Ski Area and won approval for a 36-lot luxury home development on the 352 acres adjacent to the existing ski lodge road.Read more

LeBaron-Brewer

  • 159.20 acres
  • 5/14
  • (L)

In 1948, Judith LeBaron Brewer’s parents purchased 200 acres of land along Waukeena Lake and used it as a summer retreat for the family. Judith’s parents transferred the property to Judith and her husband, Tom, a geologist, in 1981. Today they live there full time, paddling, gardening, raising chickens, cutting firewood and searching the woods for artifacts from times gone by. They’ve invited foresters, wildlife biologists and soil specialists to help them manage the land, knowing that someday the Brewer children would inherit the property.Read more

Lebo/Bonanno & Hook

  • 37.00 acres
  • 12/01
  • (L)

"Nelson Lebo is walking the walk," says Ausbon Sargent Lands Committee member Jeff Milne with admiration. "He saw an opportunity and he did it." Lebo, 33, is Ausbon Sargent's youngest conservation easement donor. The coordinator of Proctor Academy’s environmental program teaches earth science, environmental science, and watershed ecology, and has already compiled an impressive résumé as an author, a long-distance bicycle rider, and a role model for his students. Despite his many accomplishments, Lebo’s focus is not on himself, but on "the little critters."Read more