After the announcement, who owns the promise?

By: Anthony Veltri

Outlets: NH Bulletin

Published: October 16, 2026

Words: 944

Last Updated: 1 day, 18 hours ago


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Most of us know the feeling. A statement goes out from Concord or Washington, and the thing we were worried about has been saved. New Hampshire heard that news in May, when Gov. Kelly Ayotte, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest would stay open and that plans to close facilities at Bartlett Experimental Forest would be reexamined.

The relief was earned, but the harder …

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