BERLIN (NH) SUN • November 25, 2025
Updating the forest management plan for the 40,000-acre Nash Stream State Forest will get underway next year. Nash Stream Citizens Committee member Jamie Sayen said revising the plan will require looking at the current plan to see what has worked, what has changed, new data, and potential issues that may not have been addressed. “I’m certainly going to make a big pitch that climate change is so much bigger than it was 10 years ago,” Sayen said. The environmental activist said the region is seeing a lot of extreme weather events and precipitation events and needs to pull in outside research. Sayen said there are about 330 new species and the guide, "Good Forestry in the Granite State" is being updated. Sayen said if some on the committee cannot make the time commitment, he recommended other members of the public be brought in to fill out the gaps. He said the state technical team should play a major role in shaping the revision but they should not be writing the plan.