Forest Management – Conway NH

City:
Conway, NH

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1936

Completed:
1936

Description

The Work Progress Administration contributed funds for Blister Rust control efforts in the forests of Conway, New Hampshire in 1936. The WPA gave the town $2,382.42, covering 8,162 acres of land and 21,680 current and goosebury bushes destroyed. Twenty men were employed by the project.

Source notes

ANNUAL REPORT Of the Officers of the TOWN OF CONWAY NEW HAMPSHIRE

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on November 7, 2014.

Location Info

Conway, NH

Coordinates: 43.9791831, -71.12034790000001

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