Who:
Bob Norman
CCL delegate from New Hampshire
Where:
Hanover, NH
Today, August 6, was a red-letter day. It wasn't planned that way. I had hoped to meet with a landowner whose land would help unite two protected watersheds in our town. It would also help provide a corridor for wildlife to travel between remote areas and a protected wildlife area in town. I was unable last week to contact him by phone about securing an easement on his land.
So instead today became a letter-writing day, beginning with a letter to this landowner. Another landowner, who has only talked about giving an easement, says he might actually do it as an incentive for the first guy. Yay!
My red-letter day continued when I decided it was time to follow my own urging to our Sierra Club group members to write to our senators and representative about not drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve. Each senator and representative has a different perspective and history of voting on the issue, and so I drafted individual letters to each one based on these differences, starting with thanking them for some recent favorable votes.
I wrote two e-mail letters of thanks, one to a Sierra Club activist in Manchester who has new ideas in her ongoing effort to protect most of a large tract of land within the city, and one to a colleague in another environmental organization who has agreed that he is the best person to contact our first-choice speaker for the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Sierra Club chapter.
Finally, I answered a couple of questions, as best I could, about this fall's Sierra Summit.
