Progress Reports from the Field

This year's Manchester Earth Day Celebration is shaping up to be one of the biggest events in NHCC history. Headlining the day's events will be The Apostles, a well established underground hip-hop duo from Brooklyn, NY. With their politically charged lyrics and soulful sound, MC's Griot and Megawatt will look to connect Saturday's crowd with city-life and environmental action. The Bear Brook Observer reached out to the group, to find out a little bit more about their roots, life as a musician and their anticipation of the upcoming show:

From February 23rd to March 3rd, the crew of the New Hampshire Conservation Corps completed a rigorous and informative Wilderness First Responder course. The crew spent nine days intensively training and preparing themselves for possible emergency situations in the front and back country.

In the utility closet at Bear Brook, behind the brooms mops and shelves of earth friendly cleaning products there is something squirmy going on. Meet Bear Brook's new residents; a host of red wriggler worms.

The Manchester Conservation Leadership Corps' (CLC) third event of the year took us to the Derryfield Country Club, managed by the Manchester Parks, Recreation and Cemeteries Department. The golf course had experienced severe damage from the December ice-storm, which knocked down hundreds of branches from the ancient white pines that line the fairways of these Manchester links.