The Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership announced the Spring 2025 recipients of Land Protection
Transaction Grant Program grant awards. A total of $137,562 in grant funds will support conservation
work on over 1,700 acres of land. The eleven conservation projects provide over $164,000 in matching
funds.

The Land Protection Transaction Grant Program assists land trusts, conservation organizations and
municipal governments in the Coastal watershed of New Hampshire with land protection transaction
costs including appraisal, land survey, legal, title, recording fees, easement baseline documentation and
environmental assessments. The eligible properties are permanently protected through donation or
acquisition of land and conservation easements.

The Spring 2025 grant awards include conservation properties representing a diversity of natural
resources including woodlands, agricultural lands and open fields, important wildlife habitats and water
resources.

The Spring 2025 Land Protection Transaction Grant Recipients:

• Town of Brentwood, $13,250, Conservation Project Grant, Brentwood, NH
• Town of Newmarket, $1,500, Appraisal Grant, Newmarket, NH
• Society for the Protection of NH Forests, $22,045, Conservation Project Grant, Madbury, NH
• Society for the Protection of NH Forests, $25,000, Conservation Project Grant, Durham, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $3,000, Appraisal Grant, Exeter, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $3,000, Appraisal Grant, Epping, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $3,000, Appraisal Grant, Durham & Madbury, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $16,027, Conservation Project Grant, Barrington, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $7,240, Conservation Project Grant, Deerfield, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $18,500, Conservation Project Grant, Madbury, NH
• The Nature Conservancy, NH, $25,000, Conservation Project Grant, Durham, NH
  

The Land Protection Transaction Grant Program will have a grant round in the Spring of 2026. See the
Great Bay Partnership website for additional details.

The Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership is a collaboration of conservation organizations in the
coastal region that promotes landscape-scale land conservation and stewardship. Funding for the Land
Protection Transaction Grant program is provided by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Great
Bay 2030 Initiative. The Nature Conservancy serves as the fiscal agent for the Great Bay Resource
Protection Partnership grant program.

Full PDF press release.

For questions about the grant program contact us.