The Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership announced the Spring 2026 recipients of Land Protection Transaction Grant Program grant awards. A total of $182,140 in grant funds will support conservation work on over 1,870 acres of land. The fifteen conservation projects provide over $200,270 in matching funds.

The Land Protection Transaction Grant Program assists land trusts, conservation organizations and municipal governments in the Great Bay 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 2026 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 2026 Land Protection Transaction Grant Recipients:

• Town of Brentwood, $20,000, Conservation Project Grant, Brentwood, NH
• Town of Fremont, $3,500, Appraisal Grant, Fremont NH
• Town of Newmarket, $23,426, Conservation Project Grant, Newmarket, NH
• Society for the Protection of NH Forests, $20,000, Conservation Project Grant, Candia, NH
• Society for the Protection of NH Forests, $3,000, Appraisal Grant, Madbury, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $4,000, Appraisal Grant, Lee, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $25,000, Conservation Project Grant, Barrington, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $20,214, Conservation Project Grant, Dover, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $2,000, Appraisal Grant, Durham, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $4,000 Appraisal Grant, Exeter, East Kingston & Kingston, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $22,000, Conservation Project Grant, Exeter, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $4,000, Appraisal Grant, Durham, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $4,000, Appraisal Grant, Durham, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $25,000, Conservation Project Grant, Nottingham, NH
• Southeast Land Trust of NH, $2,000, Appraisal Grant, Rochester, NH
  

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

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