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The highest point in Farmington is Blue Job Mountain, at 1,350 feet (410 m) above sea level, near the town's southwestern border. Farmington lies almost fully within the Piscataqua River (Coastal) watershed, with the westernmost corner of town located in the Merrimack River watershed. [9] The town is crossed by New Hampshire Routes 11, 75, and 153.
Corbin Park (also known as the Blue Mountain Forest and Game Preserve) is a private game reserve in New Hampshire. It contains land in Croydon , Cornish , Plainfield , and Grantham . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It occupies somewhere between 24,000 and 26,000 acres (97 and 105 km 2 ) of land [ 3 ] and was started in 1889 by businessman Austin Corbin . [ 1 ]
New Hampshire Route 153 is Farmington's Main Street, leading north 8 miles (13 km) to Union. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Farmington CDP has a total area of 6.3 square miles (16.2 km 2), all of it recorded as land. [4] The Cocheco River passes through the western and southern parts of the CDP, flowing southeast to Rochester and Dover.
In 2006, the Wildlife Heritage Foundation of New Hampshire was formed due to falling revenues from the Fish & Game Department's licenses for hunting and fishing. [7] The foundation works with and supports the Fish and Game Department on projects and events which otherwise could not be funded. The foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization ...
A small group of foresighted New Hampshire sportsmen heeded this call and the New Hampshire Wildlife Federation was born, founded in 1933 as the Federated Sportsmen's Club of New Hampshire. Shortly thereafter, a national movement of all the state groups that started under Darling met in Washington, D.C., and in 1963 became affiliated with the ...
Dec. 16—The two men were bent over the dead deer, gutting the animal. "It was powdery snow, so I could walk right up on them without them hearing me," recalled Josiah Towne, a New Hampshire Fish ...
In 1989, bald eagles successfully nested in New Hampshire on Umbagog Lake for the first time since 1949. Migratory non-game birds like the northern harrier, American bittern and great blue heron depend on habitat around Umbagog Lake. Abundant fish populations and wetland habitat support one of the highest concentrations of nesting osprey in New ...
The Cornish Wildlife Management Area is one of 124 New Hampshire State Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). It is located in Cornish and covers 29 acres (120,000 m 2 ; 12 ha). History