New Hampshire may be a bit off the beaten path, but management issues are just as pressing there, especially at a nonprofit outfit. Changes afoot in Washington, D.C., will directly affect New Hampshire Audubon, one of the two leading conservation groups in the state. Both of those shifts assume we can ante up more, which is open to question. We have to develop a strategy to respond. One long-term effort Kiernan is looking at is to reengage people in their natural world.
People construct ever more barriers between themselves and nature.
We want to get people back out into the woods and fields, to reduce the barriers and the disengagement. New Hampshire is the home of the hands-on volunteer. Once the people get out there, they'll see and feel what needs doing, and they'll act. He recently visited Lake Umbagog, way up by the Canadian border.